I already have the FF640 and wanted to purchase the FF680w, only the matter of the photos being scanned in reverse order in this model is enough to put me off. With this FF680w you load them face up, so that the bottom/last photo is scanned first.... with the FF640, you put your photos in face down so that the first photo is scanned first - how it should be. Epson, please can you advise if there is a way round this? Many thanks.
Agreed. i purchased this (a 2 week wait for next day pickup AFTER I ordered and paid) first of Sept. It has been a learning curve for me. First of all, I was scanning pages of photos i had scrapbooked (wedding pics that had already been glued onto archival paper). I used the protective cover doing one page at a time slowly. I did the album 2 times. Both times after about 40 pages the scanner got stuck in the 'scanning. please wait.' mode. It never stopped spinning so I had to power off to shut it down. Cancel didn't work. I lost all I had spend hours scanning. When I called the help and after 2 hours of being put on hold repeatedly it was decided I was not to use the protective cover so much and to use my flatbed. Once I got that I took apart my album, peeling off all of my pics. I had a few that had some paper still stuck on the back that got hung up but worked thru it. I also have pics in the old 'magnetic' albums which may have residue on the back when I peel them off. Instructions say to use the cover...but i was told to not use it for a lot of pics... I also learned that the 'auto rotate' only works if pics are all the same orientation to start. So I would put in horizontal pics, scan, load vertical, scan, horizontal....mixed with the odd size prints. scanning a few at a time. Forget that. I rotated once scanned. Because I was so afraid of being 'stuck in wait mode' again (hours lost, but again, learning curve), I did a few pics at a time. The trickiest bit is trying to scan the pics in chronological order. I need to remember to put the oldest picture on the top of the stack so it is visible on the scanner. Hard to remember because it scans the pic in the back first, but loads the front (last scanned) as the number one...if I have 10 photos, the one scanned first, but in back is number 10. I did a lot of deleting of the scanned pics and redoing in order to learn how to scan my pics in small batches in sequence. Very annoying. I am working thru this and will decide if I want to keep it or not. It is a LOT of $. If it was half that price I may not be as concerned. Quality is good (not perfect) at 600. I don't care for most of the 'auto edit' copies but it is nice to have a few good ones. Most of my 1980's pics were instamatic type camera with matte finish. Not a good quality to start with. I think the other pics will come out much better on the scanner. I think I will edit the important ones myself.
I don't know if you actually have the FF680w or if you've just not updated the drivers/firmware, but they fixed this issue not too long ago. You still have to load them the same way, but it reverses them after it's done scanning, so the first picture scanned will be last and the last picture will be first, I think that's the correct wordage I'm meaning to use. There's a RUclips video somewhere out here of a guy using this scanner right when it came out and he was extremely unhappy with it, after they released the first firmware update, he changed his mind significantly. Best of luck to you!
This says nothing about cleaning the scanner. You have to do this very frequently. It is a dust magnet. Epson supplies a cleaning cloth. They should supply a box. I have had to scan some prints a dozen times, cleaning between, to get one free of dust lines.
Read the Amazon comments… doubtless a great way to bulk scan a lot of SNAPS! But If you have quality shots, use a flatbed (or, for really serious work, and IF you have negatives - positives for you serious Photographers - a macro lens and digital camera) This time saver produces JPEGS while - even a low end - flatbed will give you a TIFF! What’s the diff? It’s like 1080P video vs 4K ie only wanna see your pics on a smart phone? KISS! But if you wanna put treasured family keepsakes on a monitor… TIFF/4K!
Over a thousand? And what good does it do in your smartphone? You’ll only have to transfer them to CHEAP storage so you don’t use up the EXPENSIVE smart phone storage… and Apple makes it - intentionally - as cumbersome as storing video data on a MacBook when their ‘solution’ is “just buy a new MacBook for $2/$3K 😅😂🤣 All my data is kept - off - the Apple devices on my RAID NAS for video or DAS for images at 1/100th the cost! What I need is something that can load a hundred prints of a given side and run them thru a scanner with enuff of a thumbnail to see which I may want a TIFF image
I already have the FF640 and wanted to purchase the FF680w, only the matter of the photos being scanned in reverse order in this model is enough to put me off. With this FF680w you load them face up, so that the bottom/last photo is scanned first.... with the FF640, you put your photos in face down so that the first photo is scanned first - how it should be. Epson, please can you advise if there is a way round this? Many thanks.
Agreed.
i purchased this (a 2 week wait for next day pickup AFTER I ordered and paid) first of Sept. It has been a learning curve for me. First of all, I was scanning pages of photos i had scrapbooked (wedding pics that had already been glued onto archival paper). I used the protective cover doing one page at a time slowly. I did the album 2 times. Both times after about 40 pages the scanner got stuck in the 'scanning. please wait.' mode. It never stopped spinning so I had to power off to shut it down. Cancel didn't work. I lost all I had spend hours scanning.
When I called the help and after 2 hours of being put on hold repeatedly it was decided I was not to use the protective cover so much and to use my flatbed. Once I got that I took apart my album, peeling off all of my pics. I had a few that had some paper still stuck on the back that got hung up but worked thru it. I also have pics in the old 'magnetic' albums which may have residue on the back when I peel them off. Instructions say to use the cover...but i was told to not use it for a lot of pics...
I also learned that the 'auto rotate' only works if pics are all the same orientation to start. So I would put in horizontal pics, scan, load vertical, scan, horizontal....mixed with the odd size prints. scanning a few at a time. Forget that. I rotated once scanned.
Because I was so afraid of being 'stuck in wait mode' again (hours lost, but again, learning curve), I did a few pics at a time. The trickiest bit is trying to scan the pics in chronological order. I need to remember to put the oldest picture on the top of the stack so it is visible on the scanner. Hard to remember because it scans the pic in the back first, but loads the front (last scanned) as the number one...if I have 10 photos, the one scanned first, but in back is number 10. I did a lot of deleting of the scanned pics and redoing in order to learn how to scan my pics in small batches in sequence. Very annoying. I am working thru this and will decide if I want to keep it or not. It is a LOT of $. If it was half that price I may not be as concerned.
Quality is good (not perfect) at 600. I don't care for most of the 'auto edit' copies but it is nice to have a few good ones. Most of my 1980's pics were instamatic type camera with matte finish. Not a good quality to start with. I think the other pics will come out much better on the scanner. I think I will edit the important ones myself.
I don't know if you actually have the FF680w or if you've just not updated the drivers/firmware, but they fixed this issue not too long ago. You still have to load them the same way, but it reverses them after it's done scanning, so the first picture scanned will be last and the last picture will be first, I think that's the correct wordage I'm meaning to use. There's a RUclips video somewhere out here of a guy using this scanner right when it came out and he was extremely unhappy with it, after they released the first firmware update, he changed his mind significantly. Best of luck to you!
@@SkylineTTurbo I watched the same video, was very informative. ruclips.net/video/yB1bVoEfsLI/видео.html
Just put the photo you want to be scanned first at the bottom of the stack.
@@billiericks3293 thanks a lot for sharing your experience. This tells me what to expect.
This says nothing about cleaning the scanner. You have to do this very frequently. It is a dust magnet. Epson supplies a cleaning cloth. They should supply a box. I have had to scan some prints a dozen times, cleaning between, to get one free of dust lines.
Read the Amazon comments… doubtless a great way to bulk scan a lot of SNAPS!
But
If you have quality shots, use a flatbed (or, for really serious work, and IF you have negatives - positives for you serious Photographers - a macro lens and digital camera)
This time saver produces JPEGS while - even a low end - flatbed will give you a TIFF! What’s the diff? It’s like 1080P video vs 4K ie only wanna see your pics on a smart phone? KISS! But if you wanna put treasured family keepsakes on a monitor… TIFF/4K!
FYI, the FF-680W software "Scan Settings" allows you to choose the output file format - JPEG or TIFF.
So it does a ‘deep’ scan
Can’t you just lay the photos on the table and take photos of them with your old flip-phone camera?
Over a thousand? And what good does it do in your smartphone? You’ll only have to transfer them to CHEAP storage so you don’t use up the EXPENSIVE smart phone storage… and Apple makes it - intentionally - as cumbersome as storing video data on a MacBook when their ‘solution’ is “just buy a new MacBook for $2/$3K 😅😂🤣
All my data is kept - off - the Apple devices on my RAID NAS for video or DAS for images at 1/100th the cost!
What I need is something that can load a hundred prints of a given side and run them thru a scanner with enuff of a thumbnail to see which I may want a TIFF image
What if your photos are curved and won’t lie flat?
Iron them on a low setting ..place a cotton cloth on top...work quickly