Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner

by Epson

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20 x 16.1 x 5.6 inches ; 5.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9 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: B000S5KF34
• Item model number: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The affordable yet powerful Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner produces 4800 dpi scans for exceptional clarity and extremely accurate images. It will scan documents, photos, film, and even 3D objects thanks to its 180-degree high-rise lid design. Perfect for scrapbooking, the Epson V200 easily restores old, worn-out photos and even has a powerful dust correction feature to eliminates unwanted debris from photos. Enlargements are a cinch with the V200 all the way up to 14 x 21 inches without any loss of detail or clarity.

The Epson V200 color scanner is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, and it's backed by a 1-year limited warranty in the U.S. and Canada.

What's in the Box
Epson Perfection V200 Photo Scanner, 35mm Film Holder, Scanner Installation CD-ROM, Scanner Setup Poster, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Cable, AC Power Adapter.

Product Description

With automatic scanning, one-touch photo restoration, and 4800 DPI resolution this versatile performer brilliantly scans photos, film and even 3D objects.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good hardware, horrible (Mac) software, September 8, 2007

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D. Blackburn (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner (Office Product)

I have owned three different scanners in the last eight years. This one has the best scanner and the worst software of any of them. Five stars for the hardware and one for the software averages to three stars.

The hardware is quite nice, attractive and slim design with a side-opening high-capacity lid for bound material. The scans are good too, and hardware installation was trivial, just power brick and USB cable. Scans are very rapid through USB 2.0 interface.

Now for the bad news. The included software bundle is junk. Installation from the included CD uses a non-standard installer (what's wrong with Apple's Installer?), requires multiple license agreements, and spews four or five small applications all over your Apps folder. The "install log", rather than saying what was installled (and where) just says "Application installed successfully". Too bad these applications are useless. There are old and poorly ported versions of stuff that was probably written for Windows 98. Although the TWAIN drivers are compatible with Apple's "Image Capture" application, they don't play well with other software and so you pretty much are forced to use the clunky interface provided by Epson.

The scanner has great resolution. Too bad you can't use it - the software's file size limit means you can't scan an 8x10 picture at full resolution. Duh! Why didn't somebody in Quality Control notice this?

If you want to use OCR (scanning to a text file) it's a sorry experience. You launch the bundled OCR app and it forces you to get the scan through the Epson software instead of interfacing with the scanner itself. The app for Mac OS X is a poor reworking of a Mac OS 9 app which is a poor reworking of a pre-XP Windows app. I would guess that they haven't tweaked the core source code for at least six years.

Come on, Epson. With such great hardware, why can't you find some better software to go with it?

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing piece of hardware/software, August 1, 2007

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S. R. Thrapp - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner (Office Product)

Like many boomers, we've been wanting to digitize our 35mm slides, as well as a few B&W and color negatives. I'd been researching film scanners for several months and had decided against the $500 Nikon, which apparently has problems with Kodachrome slides, and was considering Epson's $450 V700 when I chanced on the announcements for this little beauty. SO GLAD we waited!
We've scanned over 200 slides so far, and continue to be impressed, amazed, really at the quality. Great color, good shadow detail, sharpness - it really gives up precious little to units costing many times as much. We've also scanned some prints and negatives with similar results.
The included software is very intuitive - operates in three modes - Automatic, Home, or Professional; I'm finding the "Home" mode to be the best for most our purposes. Also included is ArcSoft's PhotoImpression 6, which after a brief learning curve has become my favorite editing software - even includes healing and cloning tools for fixing damaged photos. (The dust elimination feature in the scanning software seems to do an excellent job, too - Between that feature and the well-designed and marked slide and film carrier, we're whipping through our project much faster than anticipated. One note here - This unit is definitely designed for 35mm. It can't handle larger negatives at all, and cuts off part of our old Instamatic (square format) slides.
Scanning four slides at 400dpi takes about 7 minutes and results in an avg. file size of 2.8mb and a pixel size of 2400X1600 - about equivalent to a 7mp digital shot. The V200 is capable of scanning to 4800dpi, but such a scan would take over 15 minutes per slide and result in a file size of over 40mb - very cumbersome to work with, and for most home users there's simply no need. The scans we're getting at 400dpi look great full-screen on the monitor and make beautiful 8X10 prints.
My computer has a dual-core processor, and I've found I can edit photos while scanning with no loss of performance in either program. Nice!
In short, we continue to be impressed with the design and performance of the V200. It is heartily recommended to anyone wanting to convert film to digital.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Photo Scanner, August 17, 2007

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David Pettit "Photogeek" (CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner (Office Product)

I am also very pleased with this scanner.I have scanned about a 100 slides, and I'm still experimenting with its features. I found the Epson Scan software very logical and easy to use. It has a basic starter mode, and a profesional mode. I use it at home and found the Profesional mode meets my needs. I have some previous experience with another scanner, but I found the Epson software much easier to use. It does little convenient things, for example, the preview mode does a quick scan, and then lets you orient the picture. Then when you do the actual scan, it is filed with the correct orientation, so you don't have to rotate the images. I didn't install the Arcsoft, because I use a version of Photoshop Elements and my camera software. You can import into Photoshop. Also noteworthy is the ABBYY software that has word recognition. I haven't used this feature yet, so I can't comment on it.
Bottom line, I'm getting great scanned slides ( and I'm picky) and a fun easy to use software. At 3600 dpi, the average file size is 1meg, equivilent to a 7 megapixel camera, using Photoshop baseline filing. At 4800, I'm getting around 3 meg files. Optimized Photoshop files are much larger. It will go up to 9600 optical in Pro mode. And then even higher interpolated. In the 9600+ modes it is slow. But it can be worth the wait for your best pictures if your going to supersize them.