

#EPSON V500 PHOTO FOR MAC PDF#
A scan of our grayscale resolution test chart showed that the V300 is capable of capturing very fine lines and details, reproducing tiny text very legibly. The option to scan a document as PDF allows you to create a PDF file directly from a paper document. When we submitted the scanner’s output to a jury for image quality evaluation, the scans were given a Very Good rating, with scans of our picnic test photo showing plenty of detail and accurate colors. The scanner doesn’t require very much warm-up time either, which is nice. In those tests, with our Mac Pro 2.66GHz running OS X 10.5.4, we found the V300 to be a zippy performer, knocking out our 48-bit test scans in less time than many scanners in multifunction devices take for 16-bit scans. Though the scanning software can be used on its own, we used Photoshop CS3 in our scanning tests.

The software includes tools to automatically restore color to faded photographs, which worked pretty well on a 45-year-old snapshot of my parents. The included Epson Scan software is easy to use, offering many different modes, from full-auto to advanced, depending on the amount of control you want over your scan settings. It connects to your Mac via USB 2.0 and has four shortcut buttons on the unit for scanning to e-mail, to PDF, to a printer, or to file. For those looking for a good quality photo scanner, Epson’s Perfection V300 Photo is an inexpensive flatbed scanner that can scan legal-sized documents, as well as 35 mm slides and film, at resolutions up to 4,800 dots per inch (dpi) at 48 bits. Not only are most incapable of performing high bit-depth scans, most also lack a means for scanning transparency media, like slides and film. Often, though, the scanner components in all-in-one devices are not of the highest quality they’re meant more for making copies than for digitizing your precious photographic memories. As multifunction devices proliferate, it seems that the selection of stand-alone scanners is shrinking.
