Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner Review

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This is the Epson perfection 2400 photo scanner. I bought this scanner as my first scanner and I was using it to do things like scanning in photos and also using it kind of as a copy machine because what I would do is scan something in to my computer and the print it to my laser printer. So it's been a pretty good picture -- scanner for me. The things I've been doing more recently is I've been scanning negatives that I have from older pictures and in that sense that this actually -- does a better drop than my all in one because my all in one doesn't have a negative adapter. Now, if you open it here, you will see it's just pretty plain, you know. But what happens is that this comes off and here is your negative adapter. Now what I found out -- what you do is basically you put your negatives in here and then you -- you put it on to the glass and what will happen is it will go right up against here. And this part actually lights up and that's what you use -- this is the light you use for scanning the negatives and it does a pretty good job of it. I mean, you know, you can scan up to 6 negatives if you have a strip of 6. At times you can also do slides for like projectors and you can put those in there and it works as well. I haven't done the slides myself, but I've done the negatives and when I have more time I want to go through a bunch of my older pictures and get the negative scans of them so that I don't want to go back to the photographs which may be a little bit faded or so on and so forth. So as a general duty scanner, it does a pretty good job. It -- the colors are a little bit off compared to the newer scanners, but it's -- it's decent and especially if you're doing stuffs like scanning negatives. It's -- it actually does a really, really good job. So I recommend it for purposes like that. It you have a setup like mine where you have a laser printer and you have a scanner, then you essentially have a copy machine and -- and that's also been very useful over time. So, -- pretty happy with this. It was a good investment for me.