And by the way, if you're hoping to use this scanner to convert slides or negatives to digital (or print), please know that it is a VERY SLOW process

I set it to a high resolution so the process is somewhat slow

The process isn't super

Doing large volumes of negatives at high resolution is a lengthy process.

and it has been a fun and relatively easy process?

The process is slow because only 4 slides can be scanned at a time, and the scan function has to be initiated anew when each 4 slides are scanned.

The process is easy - I followed the guidelines of another reviewer who wrote excellent instructions on how to do it.

Set too high, the scanning process would simply freeze (the scanning software, not the computer), and I'd have to start the scan over at a lower resolution

In the end, it was still a slow process

The process is slow and would never work well for a commercial scanning business, but for a person just trying to put memories in a more practical modern day format this scanner would be hard to beat.

On principle I NEVER enable ICE/dust correction because it does a couple things: slows down the scanning/saving process; and it also can do weird things to some photos

Easy set up, easy process..many options

I like to put it on Advanced mode and scan large quantities of prints/negs, but the software makes you reopen the scanning part after every batch and it slows the whole process down

Although the process is slow (4 at a time takes about 5 minutes) the dust removal (ICE) and color restoration make the wait worthwhile

- It is a very slow process.

The ICE option works well but it does slow down the process but not enough for me to not want to use the ICE technology

It is a slow process, only 4 slides at a time.

The ICE feature/software provides excellent results, but is a very heavy duty from computation/processing point of view and slows down the process (I have scanned about 3000 slides)

If you are using a MAC I suggest you down load EPSON SCAN from EPSON as the soft ware included seems to be out of date and will STALL the scanning process unless you keep the mouse or pad moving....

Actually, you'll probably want to be drinking throughout the entire project because scanning is a dull, dull process

The process of scanning a negative is very simple and the conversion from a negative to a positive is done automatically without any additional input.

I have scanned a few documents and the process was easy and scans were easily converted to pdf.

Basically I wanted an out-of-the-box solution to combat the painful process of scanning and editing photos

We have not tried to scan any negatives at this time, but we expect that process to be just as easy.

I'm not suggesting that one avoid this product, but for most people who intend to scan in a large number of slides, it will not be as rapid a process as it could be if auto mode worked properly.

It's not a fast process if you've hundreds of negatives to scan.