Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner

by Epson

Product Details

Product Manual [508kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00006AMSD
• Item model number: 1260
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #7 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Printers & Scanners > Slide & Film Scanners
  • #18 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Printers & Scanners > Flatbed Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible slide scans, February 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner (Office Product)

Despite Epson's marketing of this scanner as being excellent for scanning slides, My experience has been the pits. When I tried to scan slides that have excellent detail, exposure, and clarity the scanned images are anything but. The shadow areas come out so dark that you can't make out any detail what so ever in the shadow areas. When you go to editing to try to correct this you loose alot, and I mean alot of detail in the highlight areas. When I try to scan slides that were taken at night, again despite excellent detail and exposure most of the time the scanner tells me the slide isn't there or it's improperly placed although it is there and properly placed. On the rare occasion when these slides do scan the color of the scanned slide is very wrong (ie: a waterfall that is light up against a night sky) in the slide the waterfall is a whitish yellow and you can clearly see the detail of some rocks that do not have water rolling over them. The same image scans with the waterfall being a red-orange and with the water that is at the bottom going into the river being a bright sunshine yellow, as well as no detail of the rocks that have no water rolling down them at all. If this is what Epson calls excellent, I would hate to see what they call bad. I have been on the phone with support from Epson and the people who have developed the software bundle that comes with the scanner, which by the way are all long distance calls. None of these company's have toll free numbers, which begins to add up very quickly. Not one of these company's had any answers for me, they just kept referring me back and forth between the software companies and Epson. I did this for two weeks in good faith trying to resolve these issues. I am now done with it, I have decided to return the scanner to the place of purchase for a full refund. PERIOD!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect, but pretty darn good, June 14, 2003

By 

bgaughr (Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner (Office Product)

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.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't know why others are complaining, December 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner (Office Product)

I don't know why others are having problems. I bought this scanner for my father for christmas and it works great. He also has an HP printer and we have had no problems getting the scanner to copy directly to the printer.

The text on the control panel is fine. I have never even looked at the manual.

The only thing that doesn't work right is the scan to e-mail. The only e-mail program it will scan to is outlook express. My fathers computer has Netscape Mail and the full version of Outlook on it but these don't show up as options when scanning to e-mail.

I love the fact that it finds the edges of the photo being scanned and only scans the appropriate area. There is no need to do any cropping with an editing program when the scan is done. I may have to buy one for myself.