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Summary: Great price, good service, but not worth the bother!
Review: I purchased this scanner from Dell, after doing my homework and looking at its good ratings, and I especially wanted the transparency adapter. It was supposed to be the model with the transparency adapter, but came without it. Dell would not even acknowledge my emails. The scanner did not work properly when scanning pictures. All scans were yellow and red! Epson was contacted and repaired the unit very quickly, but refused to replace it. It still makes weird sounds when scanning, but at least the colors are OK now. However, the software that came with the scanner is really weird and instructions are poor. Also, the OCR software is totally useless. It doesn't recognize text in columns, so each little section has to be scanned separately. After using the Epson for a few weeks I gave up on it and have now purchased another brand.
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Summary: Beware...
Review: When my HP Scanjet 3200C refused to work with Windows XP on my new computer, I decided to try the Epson Perfection 1260. The installing the scanner drivers were extremely easy. I didn't bother with the additional software since I have Photoshop 7. After quickly getting the scanner up and running, I noticed problems. When pictures or color documents were scanned, they were usually a bit blurry. Sometimes they had a red line going through them, however, I didn't think much of it. I pretty much used the scanner for line art. That however should have been a warning sign as the quality of photos, magazine articles and covers I scanned seemed to get progressively worse. To make them look clear, I often had to clean up the lines in Photoshop. Then came the final straw, when trying to scan a color drawing, the scan came out way too dim. Instead of a clear picture (or even a slightly blurred one) all I got was grayish fuzz. When I tried to scan a DVD cover as a test, all I got a lot of red and no color. All of this, and I've only had it for a few months, moderately using it from time to time. All in all, I'd say my money was wasted. So far I'd say if you're looking for something easy to install and use, that also scans clean line art, then go for it. For anything and everything else, the low price isn't worth it.
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Summary: The best scanner I every had.
Review: This is the best scanner that I every had & is one of the best and easy to use, I also like the photo is easy and I had only one problem with it and got great technical support.
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Summary: Epson Perfection 1260
Review: The quality of the picture is great. Unfortunately, the people that wrote the software for this scanner had created a great deal of glitches; the interaction (if you get any) between the software and the scanner is user unfriendly.
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Summary: Not perfect, but pretty darn good
Review: I almost did not buy the 1260 Photo Scanner based upon a couple of other reviews. After using it for a few days, I sure am happy I did.
1. Since I run Windows XP with the Service Pack, I was very concerned after reading the problems a couple of other buyers experienced. I can now say this is not an issue with the Epson. When you open the box, there are instructions on how to download a 'patch' from Microsoft to ensure that the scanner runs perfectly. 2. I was also concerned with another reviewers comments about having to set up a 'phantom' printer. I use a HP Laserjet printer and I printed to that device without any problems. 3. Finally, one of the other concerns was 'ease of use.' Again, not a problem from my perspective. The scanner was set up and running perfectly within ten minutes (from box to perfect picture). The quality of the photos and documents is very good from my perspective. I tested the scanner using the printer, sending a picture to an email, saving a scanned picture to a file, and including a scanned picture in a Word document. All functions worked flawlessly. What more could I ask? Well, maybe one thing. The scanner could be a little faster. It is not actually slow - just not real fast. Conclusion: All things considered, I do not think you can go wrong with this scanner.
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Summary: A very good home-use scanner
Review: This is my first scanner but it has been a pleasure. It has never caused any trouble and has always done what I asked. Sometimes I struggle to get the 35mm adapter to work (the optional attachment) but other than that, this scanner has proved to be a very good purchase.
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Summary: What Junk-Software Sucks
Review: What a waste of money. Purely a disaster. Lucky to get 2 scans without errors. Total frustration. messages:Scanner busy, scanner warming up; scanner not ready; scanner not available.
This makes the old Microtek look like a dream machine.
I have another Epson at home and the Smart Panel software is not so smart- there too- errors, lockups. I hope nobody else buys this garbage. Poor support terrible software.
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Summary: The best scanner I every had.
Review: This is the best scanner that I every had & is one of the best and easy to use, I also like the photo is easy and I had only one problem with it and got great technical support.
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Summary: This thing is a piece of junk and...
Review: Really slow, low quality,[weak] software and no power switch. And good luck getting technical support! My emails got bounced and I could not get through on the phone. ... So here's the summary: bad product, bad service, ...
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Summary: Don't buy this!
Review: This will be the first and last Epson product I will ever buy. I've had nothing but problems with this scanner since I bought it. Their copying program has to use a Generic printer driver unless it's an Epson printer. I had to write a program that would switch my print driver to a generic one every time I copy something, otherwise it wouldn't copy, or I would have to manually change the default print driver every time I scanned something. That, or deal with a featureless printer. And half the time when I try to just preview a scan before scanning it to a file, it says "Pre-scanning in progress" for about 10 seconds, then it says "Could not read from scanner". They don't even offer a way to contact their support other than a long distance telephone number! Well... That and a regular mailing address. They don't offer any type of web or e-mail support contacts! This is pathetic! Epson has the worst tech support I've ever seen! I'm a computer technician, and I've tried just about everything I could possibly think of to fix this, but nothing has worked. And I have gotten no help whatsoever from Epson's tech support. Now I wish I had just returned it when these problems started. My six year old Canon Parallel scanner was 100 times better than this! I bought this thinking Epson was a good brand, but I've learned my lesson on that.
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