The Professional mode is the one that permits film scanning, and the only one that supports Digital ICE. The Epson Scan utility has four modes: Full Auto, Home, Office, and Professional. You can use any of the four scan buttons for scanning to a searchable PDF file with adjustable settings, copying (sending a scan to your printer), email (creating an email message with the scan attached as a JPEG), and launching the Epson scan utility to scan and save a file to disk in the image format of your choice. Unlike the Epson V500 and the Epson Perfection V600, which came with Adobe Photoshop Elements, it lacks a separate photo-editing program. It has both Twain and WIA drivers that support scanning from nearly any Windows program with a scan command. Software includes two scan utilities-Epson Scan with Epson Easy Photo Fix technology, plus Epson Easy Photo Print-plus an OCR program, Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint.
I installed it on a system running Windows Vista. Setting up the V550 is easy: Just install the software, plug in the power cord and supplied USB cable, and turn the scanner on. The V550 also includes software-based dust removal for prints, but Digital ICE is preferable. Like the Epson V500, the V550 includes Digital ICE-the hardware-based approach for digitally removing dust and scratches-for use in film scanning. Also, it will scan multiple photo prints at a time, as its auto edge detection technology automatically detects the size of each image, crops it accordingly, and saves it as an individual file. It can scan up to four 35mm slides, two rows of six negatives each, or medium-format film, with the removable transparency unit. It has a maximum scan area of 8.5 by 11.7 inches, and a maximum optical resolution of 6,400 dpi. The V550 measures 4.6 by 11.2 by 19.1 inches and weighs 9.6 pounds. All this earns it the Editors' Choice for photocentric flatbed scanners. Still, it brings to the table impressive scan quality, the ability to scan multiple 35mm slides or film negatives, and the Digital Ice hardware-based solution for film scanning. Gone, however, is Photoshop Elements, leaving the V550 without a bundled photo-editing program.
It adds a utility that easily uploads scans to email, Facebook, and several cloud-based services. It is very similar to the Editors' Choice Epson Perfection V500, which it's replacing, but with two notable differences.
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