Amazon Deal Alert: Epson Perfection V300 Scanner On Sale
Saving digital memories is a job for parents that (either thankfully or not) our parents never had to deal with. But what’s the best way to save those non-digital memories, digitally? The Epson Perfection V300 Scanner is the same scanner I’ve used to convert many photos and negatives of my family’s memories with great success – and it’s on sale now at Amazon.com.
The Epson Perfection V300 Scanner is a basic flat-bed scanner that will scan any flat piece of paper (photo, kids’ artwork, written document) as well as photo negatives and slides. It also comes with Epson’s software that will take your scanned image, correct the color and remove dust and other imperfections. The software suite you get also comes with something called “optical character recognition” software, making any documents you scan readable and (more importantly perhaps) searchable by your computer.
In my experience it worked very well under all conditions. I was able to scan many, many negatives as well as photos without hardly any hiccup.
But the most important thing about this blog post is that it’s available now from Amazon.com for only $93.24, which is 33% off the regular price. So if you’ve been putting off this chore, now might be the right time to start archiving. (Oh, and once you do, don’t forget to back up your hard work – but that’s another blog post.)
Epson Perfection V300 Photo Color Scanner, $93.24 from Amazon.com.
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As a computer techie and a satisfied end user, I can vouch for Epson scanners. I have no allegiance to any software or hardware platforms. Whatever works great, I buy and use.
I have an older model Epson Perfection 4990 Photo and I have scanned a few thousand old family photos, slides of different sizes and even film “negatives”. The scanner has been flawless and I am thrilled with the archive quality results. I can keep them as huge files or trim them down to smaller sizes to share online in family web albums using Google’s Picasa service for free.
While on a family reunion trip back home, I needed to have a scanner but I did not want to travel with mine. So, I purchased the scanner that is on sale in this post and used if for a week to capture the photos that family members had with them and I just hooked it up to my laptop while there. It worked great. It is fast and the images are just as good as those using my scanner at home.
I had actually tried two other scanners while on my trip that were “on sale” or claimed a higher resolution. They were crap. One of them, the software was so bad, I had to re-set my preferences *on every new scan*. The other one had a line from the silver track bar that reflected on the image and ruined every single test scan I did. I had to return them both quick and I was lucky to get the Epson, which had been out of stock at the local Best Buy, but luckily it was available the day before the reunion.
Stick with Epson. The software is excellent too, which is also an essential consideration.
Happy scanning!