Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner – Customer Reviews
epson perfection 1260
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Please do yourself a favor and don't purchase this scanner. It is by far the WORST scanner I've ever owned. I think my scsi scanner from the early 90's was better, at least it worked. Epson also is notorius for providing terrible support for their products and as far as I can tell no longer provides an updated driver for the 1260 model on their site. You need the full driver to scan slides.
9/11/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
its $30 price tells it all
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Using this machine needs a lot of patience.Results are OK but the 'getting there'is very slow and not user friendly.Just waiting for enough market research to select my next scanner and will then ditch the 'Perfection 1260' without any regret.
7/17/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Three years experience
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I have had this scanner for about three years - use it moderately, but a lot at the moment. It has always done what is said it would, never any hang ups or errors and the Smart Panel equally seems to do what it says. Apart from the long warmup time, not a bad buy (although not obsolete) Those with problems may well have configuration difficulties or whatever.
8/24/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
The worst scanner I have used in twenty years!
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I got this as part of a special offer with my Mac G4.I have been using scanners for almost 20 years, and this is *the worst* I have ever had the misfortune to be stuck with.There is no "off" button; the only way to shut it off (and prevent its big green light from illuminating the room) is to unplug it; if it has one-touch copying, I have never succeeded in getting it to work; the software is terrible -- at least fifty per cent of the time it stops making copies for no apparent reason; I use Adobe Photoshop's "twain acquire" function to avoid having to use the software which comes with this thing, but -- again -- half the time it does not work; it is not working now although it worked fine two days ago with the same connection and the same software.
DO NOT waste any time or money on this thing.Even if you receive it for free, don't bother with it -- it will waste so much of your time that you may just grab it and throw it against a wall or something else valuable.
I give it one star because it *does* work every once in a while.That is the only good thing I have to say about this piece of junk.7/10/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
Decent scanner, mediocre software
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I purchased a 1260 about 9 months ago after my first-generation scanner (from UMAX) died.The scanner and software were quite easy to set up (on a PC running Windows XP), I've had no hardware problems, and I've found the picture quality to be very acceptable.It's a bit slow to warm up and scan, but both were as expected in this price range.
The bundled EPSON SmartPanel software is a disappointment; it gets the job done but is far from user-friendly (and my low-tech wife still hasn't figured out how to use it).7/28/2004 12:00 AM | Rating:
