The Epson Perfection 1640SU photo scanner is a flatbed color image scanner with one-pass scanning. It's fully automatic, allowing you to scan directly to an application with just one touch.
The dual-platform scanner for Mac and PC offers plug-and-play hookup and fast SCSI and USB connectivity. The maximum scan area is 8.5 by 11.7 inches, although you can scan legal-size documents and pictures if using the optional auto document feeder. The optional feeder is a 30-page, 5.5 ppm automatic document feeder. Also, if you need to scan something that doesn't fit under the document cover, the 1640SU allows you to self-adjust the cover. For example, if you need to scan thick documents like a photo album, you simply place the document on the document table glass without having to remove the cover.
The optical resolution of this scanner is 1,600 dpi, while hardware resolution is 1,600 x 2,300 dpi maximum with Micro Step Drive technology. This scanner also offers a true 42-bit color depth.A premium software bundle includes ArcSoft Panorama Maker, Adobe Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe, and Epson TWAIN scanning software.
Also, an optional 4-by-5-inch transparency unit is available for this scanner. With it you can scan positive and negative transparent materials such 35mm slides and filmstrips.
The Epson 1640SU scanner weighs 9.91 pounds and measures 11.4 by 17.4 by 3.78 inches. This product comes with a one-year limited warranty in the United States and Canada. --Linda Anderson
Product Description:
The Perfection 1640SU series scanners are ideal for knowledgeable home and small/medium business users who demand high quality with rapid speed and maximum efficiency. Featuring a 1600dpi alternate MatrixCCD with EPSON Micro Step drive for a sub scanning resolution of 3200dpi, the Perfection 1640SU series can capture maximum image detail. The internal and external 42-bit color depth enables the capture of a staggering 440 billion colors and 16, 384 shades of gray ensuring even the most subtle color changes are recognized. Connectivity is simple with the inbuilt USB and SCSI interfaces, giving the choice of a simple plug & play solution, or the high-speed advantages offered by a SCSI connection.The Perfection 1640SU Photo supplied as standard with a 4x5" Transparency unit and slide holders is superb for amateur and professional photographers alike who need to scan negatives and transparencies. Included is a comprehensive software package including Adobe PhotoShop LE 5.0 for professional image editing, Abobe PhotoDeluxe, high level OCR editing with Textbridge Pro, and the EPSON Smart Panel for scanners - enabling the Start button to be customized to user requirements.
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Epson Perfection 1640SU Office Scanner
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Epson Perfection 1640SU is a high-performance flatbed scanner that is ideal for general image and document scanning. The 1640SU color scanner boasts resolutions of up to 1,600 x 3,200 dpi with a low-noise CCD (light sensor). It uses Epson's Micro Step Drive technology for optimum speed and consistency in a workgroup scanner. It has a maximum interpolated resolution of 12,800 dpi.The 1640SU features a large scanning area with high-speed capabilities. Its automatic document feeder helps scan multipage documents efficiently. The start button can be customized for easy one-touch scanning. For optimum color images, the 1640SU offers 42-bit internal and external color depth. It can capture 440 billion colors and 16,384 shades of gray, making even the most subtle color changes vibrant. The 1640SU is perfect for artists, professionals, and graphic designers. For even more advanced photo scanning needs, you can purchase the optional film adapter.
The 1640SU comes with SCSI or plug-and-play USB connectivity for ultimate versatility. The 1640SU features a bundle of useful software. Adobe PhotoDeluxe allows you to enhance and edit your images with ease, while Xerox TextBridge Pro offers OCR (optical character recognition) editing. Epson TWAIN software will let you simplify those complex setup procedures and implement automatic scanning. The 1640SU also includes Epson Smart Panel, which enables scanning to e-mail, OCR, and photo-editing applications. --Megan Dugan
Product Description
The Perfection 1640SU series scanners are ideal for knowledgeable home and small/medium business users who demand high quality with rapid speed and maximum efficiency. Featuring a 1600 dpi alternate MatrixCCD with EPSON Micro Step drive for a sub scanning resolution of 3200dpi, the Perfection 1640SU series can capture maximum image detail. The internal and external 42-bit color depth enables the capture of a staggering 440 billion colors and 16.384 shades of gray ensuring even the most subtle color changes are recognized. Connectivity is simple with the inbuilt USB and SCSI interfaces, giving the choice of a simple Plug and Play solution, or the high-speed advantages offered by a SCSI connection.The Perfection 1640SU Office is perfect for volume scanning with the 30-sheet high-speed automatic document feeder as standard. It's supplied with a comprehensive software bundle offering the versatility of enhancing and manipulating images with Abobe PhotoDeluxe, high-level OCR editing with Textbridge Pro, and ease of use with the EPSON Smart Panel - enabling the Start button to be customized to user requirements.Customer Reviews:
Don't buy it from e-city.......2006-08-25
Great over-all scanner!.......2003-08-31
Unbelievable Value!.......2001-05-03
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Epson Perfection 1640SU Photo Scanner
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ASIN: B00004Z3J0 |
Amazon.com Product Description
The Epson Perfection 1640SU photo scanner is a flatbed color image scanner with one-pass scanning. It's fully automatic, allowing you to scan directly to an application with just one touch.The dual-platform scanner for Mac and PC offers plug-and-play hookup and fast SCSI and USB connectivity. The maximum scan area is 8.5 by 11.7 inches, although you can scan legal-size documents and pictures if using the optional auto document feeder. The optional feeder is a 30-page, 5.5 ppm automatic document feeder. Also, if you need to scan something that doesn't fit under the document cover, the 1640SU allows you to self-adjust the cover. For example, if you need to scan thick documents like a photo album, you simply place the document on the document table glass without having to remove the cover.
The optical resolution of this scanner is 1,600 dpi, while hardware resolution is 1,600 x 2,300 dpi maximum with Micro Step Drive technology. This scanner also offers a true 42-bit color depth.A premium software bundle includes ArcSoft Panorama Maker, Adobe Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe, and Epson TWAIN scanning software.
Also, an optional 4-by-5-inch transparency unit is available for this scanner. With it you can scan positive and negative transparent materials such 35mm slides and filmstrips.
The Epson 1640SU scanner weighs 9.91 pounds and measures 11.4 by 17.4 by 3.78 inches. This product comes with a one-year limited warranty in the United States and Canada. --Linda Anderson
Product Description
The Perfection 1640SU series scanners are ideal for knowledgeable home and small/medium business users who demand high quality with rapid speed and maximum efficiency. Featuring a 1600dpi alternate MatrixCCD with EPSON Micro Step drive for a sub scanning resolution of 3200dpi, the Perfection 1640SU series can capture maximum image detail. The internal and external 42-bit color depth enables the capture of a staggering 440 billion colors and 16, 384 shades of gray ensuring even the most subtle color changes are recognized. Connectivity is simple with the inbuilt USB and SCSI interfaces, giving the choice of a simple plug & play solution, or the high-speed advantages offered by a SCSI connection.The Perfection 1640SU Photo supplied as standard with a 4x5" Transparency unit and slide holders is superb for amateur and professional photographers alike who need to scan negatives and transparencies. Included is a comprehensive software package including Adobe PhotoShop LE 5.0 for professional image editing, Abobe PhotoDeluxe, high level OCR editing with Textbridge Pro, and the EPSON Smart Panel for scanners - enabling the Start button to be customized to user requirements.Customer Reviews:
I love it!!! so clean so fast...so quiet.......2002-09-18
amazing scanner for old slides!.......2001-12-10
This scanner is easy to install, easy to use. For slides, you must use the Twain 5 option in your Twain menu, but everything is very intuitive and you'll find the learning curve quite smooth.
If you are looking to scan slides so that family memories, etc... are not lost, then this scanner is very very good quality for money, the prints you'll get ( with an epson 890 photo printer, it works wonders) are very good. obviously, we are talking of amateur photography here, I guess a professionnal who sells his photographs would want something with extra-definition.
So if you want to be amazed and moved, to rediscover the past... go for it!
Great scanner...well worth it!.......2001-08-17
Epson Perfection Applies to Epson Printers Only.......2001-06-30
1. Scan to Email 2. Scan to OCR 3. Scan for Creativity 4. Scan to Application 5. Copy 6. Photo Print
I had no problems with items number 1 - 4. The copy feature did not work and kept giving me error messages. I searched the internet and found a fix that when downloaded, resolved the copy problem.
The Photo Print feature which I was quite interested in, did not work at all. I referred to the user manual and discovered that this feature will only work for Epson Printers. If I had know this initially, I probably would have bought another scanner.
I guess I can't complain since 5 out of the 6 options work. I have since used another application that works with this scanner to fix and resize photos.
A Professional Scanning Instrument at an Accessible Price.......2001-06-10
I have an old and trusty Nikon 1000 scanner that has done its duty by me for many years. However, I do a lot of medium and large format work and regret not having a more versatile film scanner. Unfortunately, the big scanners vary in cost from a bit too much to near extortion. Since my flatbed scanner was old and horrible I decided to look into buying one of the better scanners with a transparency head. After a great deal of dithering I settled on the Epson 1640 SU.
Drivers are available for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 and NT 4.0 I installed into my Win 98 machine with minimal effort, using the USB interface. I went from box to up and running in less than a half hour. The transparency head comes in it's own storage case with a set of film holders for standard film sizes (35mm, 120mm and 4x5, and another for doing Epson instant photo prints). It rests on the scanning glass, so it takes all of 5 seconds to install.
Accompanying Epson software includes TWAIN drivers, Smart Panel (an easy scan and save interface), and Film Factory Lite (home photo management software). Also included are Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Photoshop 5.0 LE. Since I have the Adobe profession products on my system I did not load these, but they are accepted standards. I did load Scansoft TextBridge Pro, a very nice optical character recognition package. Also included are some ArcSoft utilities and a special offer for Monaco Systems color matching software. This makes a package deal which is only exceeded by HP's top of the line scanner, which costs almost twice as much and has less scanning power.
I used a negative from my old Hasselblad with a 150mm lens. I scanned the entire negative at 3600 dpi at the 14 bit black and white setting. File size was 98.87mb and it took about 2.25 minutes to scan. I scanned the image directly into Photoshop 6.0. Resolution and image tonal range was excellent, and extreme enlargement showed image breakdown to be very slow. For my kind of work, the digital image was nearly equivalent to a photographic image. I would rate this as excellent, unexpectedly good for a general purpose scanner.
35mm slide scanning is not as good though. The thickness of the slide makes focus a bit softer and there is no holder for slides. I recommend removing the slide from the paper mount and putting it in the 35mm film holder. Then remount the slide in a plastic, reusable mount. Scanning this way, you get an image that is every bit as good as the 120 image. 4x5 scanning is also great, but you need to watch your file size. Use the provided film holders whenever possible. They take a lot of the trickiness out of the process.
The TWAIN interface is a bit complicated. They have taken the liberty of simplifying operation for the photographer or home user who is uncomfortable with scanning technology. This is all well and good, but once you've got your feet wet and are ready to take direct control the interface feels a bit clumsy. Don't get me wrong, you can do just about anything you want at the scanning point, just expect to have to spend a bit of time with the advanced manuals on the CD.
This scanner is perfect for the amateur or professional photographer who has high standards but lacks the budget for exotic equipment. It is extremely well built and easy to use. With its high resolution it should perform satisfactorily for many years to come.
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Epson Perfection 1640SU Photo - Flatbed scanner - A4 - 1600 dpi x 3200 dpi - SCSI / USB
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Product Description
The Perfection 1640SU series scanners are ideal for knowledgeable home and small/medium business users who demand high quality with rapid speed and maximum efficiency. Featuring a 1600dpi alternate MatrixCCD with EPSON Micro Step drive for a sub scanning resolution of 3200dpi, the Perfection 1640SU series can capture maximum image detail. The internal and external 42-bit color depth enables the capture of a staggering 440 billion colors and 16, 384 shades of gray ensuring even the most subtle color changes are recognized. Connectivity is simple with the inbuilt USB and SCSI interfaces, giving the choice of a simple plug & play solution, or the high-speed advantages offered by a SCSI connection.The Perfection 1640SU Photo supplied as standard with a 4x5" Transparency unit and slide holders is superb for amateur and professional photographers alike who need to scan negatives and transparencies. Included is a comprehensive software package including Adobe PhotoShop LE 5.0 for professional image editing, Abobe PhotoDeluxe, high level OCR editing with Textbridge Pro, and the EPSON Smart Panel for scanners - enabling the Start button to be customized to user requirements.Electronics:
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