Customer Reviews

Epson B103011 Perfection 610 USB Scanner (PC/Mac)

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Went the HP route first. Couldn't get it to work. Tried everyting. Punted! Bought the Espson and fired it up on the 1st try. Have had it for about 3 months now and coupled with an HP p1000 printer, I can duplicate, and I mean duplicate pictures. Scaned a professional 8x10 of my little boy to near perfection. The Twain software is great. Only down side is at times I need to place some thick stock paper behind the picture so I don't scan "through" it. I am now putting photo archives in the computer weekly. Very simple to use and quick. Great to be able to adjust BPI from 300 to 2400 based on what you want.

A scanner was my first requirement after getting my iMac--needed to put pictures out to relatives. This scanner set up easily w/o any glitches. I was scanning within 5 minutes after taking it out of the box. The quality of the scanned pictures is great, even on low scan settings. I've received compliments from friends on the quality of the softcopy pics. There is also a few software packages included, but I haven't found them all too useful yet: maybe I'll learn what they'e good for. Bonus was two free software programs from mail. I'm happy with my purchase.

Wow. Great scanner. It was easy to install...the USB connection is simple and fast. The software is great. The OCR feature is amazing....very rarely an error. The software allows you to drag the scanned document onto an icon corresponding with the application you want the document imported into, and then it converts it accordingly. Very impressive! When scanning pictures and graphics, even at the lower resolutions, the quality is amazing. There is a a button on the scanner that when you press it, it brings up a menu asking what application you want to import the scan into. This scanner is very fast, usually taking 5 seconds on simple pictures. The speed doesn't decrease much at all when scanning at higher resolutions. The time to warm-up is only a few seconds. The price on this scanner is tough to beat, along with the quality. I am very impressed and couldn't be more pleased.

Having owned and installed many scanners, I wanted a new simple scanner for my private office. The Epson 610 installed instantly with the included usb cable, and I was scanning within 5 minutes. It's fast, and the bundled twain driver works well. Even the basic OCR software works well for basic word processing - but you might want to install a high-end OCR software like Textbridge Pro for more options. Color photos scan well, but you get far better color if you don't choose the 'quick scan' option.

I read a few reviews about this product before I bought it. Most of the reviews were positive and this scanner has won best in class with various magazines.

I have to say I was not disappointed in any way. Sure, it's not the world's most attractive scanner, in fact it's on the ugly side of unattractive, however it does what it's supposed to. It scans at an incredible quality, and does it fast. I have yet to see a better scanner on the market for under $100.

I would recommend this scanner to anyone, unless you have money to burn and want to spend 2-3 times more money; this scanner represents exceptional value and quality.

My only reservation is that the accompanying software is not brilliant.

I ordered and received this scanner from Amazon.com. It was received in good order, and I attempted to install it the day of receipt, without any success. I was then forced to call EPSON technical support for help. It took me 3 days and nearly 2 hours on the phone with these technicians and they were not able to resolve my problem. It turned out that I had a bad unit delivered to me. What made things worse is that EPSON refused to send me a new replacement scanner, they say it's against there policy. They wanted me to bring it to one an EPSON repair centers, located two towns away. I figure, like most people, that if I buy a new scanner and never use it I should get a new replacement and not one requiring repair. With AMAZON's return policy I have been able to get my money back for the scanner, but I'm still out $35.18 in phone expenses trying to resolve my problems with this scanner. EPSON does not have an 800 phone number for technical support questions, and any expense incurred trying to rectify a problem with any EPSON product becomes yours expense. My advise to any one contemplating the purchase of an EPSON product, is to keep this in mind "you may be paying for more than the item you are purchasing. Don't buy EPSON!

The scanner is a great piece of hardware, but the included software, TwainScan L, is very limited. The user can't easily adjust scan resolution or control brightness or contrast. Default settings are quite dark and must be adjusted with software after scanning.

wow look at the review dates (2000) vs today (2009) !! Anyways, I got mine around the year 2000 also and up to date, my Epson 610 is still very much alive ! I've been using it on various Linux O/S the past 4 years ! Though this scanner is old, its still valuable to all of us :)