Installation disk for Epson 1650. Manual loading and update order

Order manual download and update:

This embedded EPSON Perfection 1650 driver must enter the Windows® operating system or be available for download via the center. windows updates® (Windows® Update). The built-in driver supports the basic functions of your Epson Perfection 1650.

The procedure for performing automatic download and update:

Recommendation: As a rule, we strongly recommend most Windows users (except when they are advanced users) To update the Epson drivers scanner, download a special tool, such as DriverDoc. DriverDoc automatically downloads and updates the Perfection 1650 driver, ensuring the installation of the proper version for the current operating system.

DriverDoc can be used for automatic update Not only scanner drivers, but also all other drivers on your PC. This utility has access to a database containing more than 2,50,000 device drivers (the replenishment of the base is carried out on a daily basis), so that you will always be installed on your PC latest versions Required drivers.

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Epson Frequently Asked Questions regarding the update

What are the Epson Scanner Device Drivers need?

Device drivers provide proper interaction hardware Devices (scanner) with your operating system. Epson wrote these unique, mini programs to ensure proper operation Perfection 1650.

What operating systems are compatible with Perfection 1650 drivers?

Windows supports drivers for Perfection 1650 equipment.

How to update Perfection 1650 drivers?

Perfection 1650 Drivers can be updated manually using Device Manager (Device Manager) or automatically by downloading the utility to update drivers software.

What are the advantages and risks of updating the Perfection 1650 drivers?

The advantages of updating Perfection 1650 drivers include improved compatibility, improve hardware functions and increased performance. Risks Installation of incorrect drivers The device scanner includes software failures, performance reduction and total instability of the PC.

About the author: Jay Geater is president and cEO Solvusoft Corporation - a global company engaged in software and focusing on innovative service programs. He all his life passionately was fond of computers and loves everything connected with computers, software and new technologies.

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This article is preceding a series of tests of tablet SOHO scanners. In order to testing, they did not wear only subjective in nature, but were based on real numbers, was drawn up special technique. With it, we recommend getting acquainted first of all to the reader who is interested in the academic part of the test. In the event that you do not want to score with complex formulas, you can simply take a look at the results obtained during tests: they, for the convenience of perception, are decorated in the form of final rating ratings and clearly reflect the place-employed place.
Article Let's start with the descriptive part and, because Hewlett-Packard apparatus is newest development This company (his rival Epson Perfection 1650 has already been sold well enough and successfully), consider it first.

Introduction

The tablet single-pass scanner ScanJet 3570C became the first Hewlett-Packard apparatus, in which an active adapter for 35-mm transparent originals is a separate device, and is originally built into the scanner cover. This model is intended for a budget consumer, and its value will probably seem very tempting to many. But before starting his story, I would like to briefly describe the situation in the market of tablet SOHO scanners, which has long been saturated, if not crowded.
Indeed, than a producing company to draw the attention of the spoiled abundance of an ordinary consumer, who is already, to put it mildly, "to the light bulb" Optical permissions, and designer sizes? It is clear that the tough competitive struggle in the SOHO scanner market leaves a few manufacturers almost only two ways: either leave the arena (as the AGFA company once left it), or try to follow continuous improvement model Row, reducing the cost of components and causing consumer's attention on its product something special. "Special" for scanjet 3570c - an active adapter (backlit) integrated into the lid to scan the films.
I note that over the past year the average cost of scanners initial level For the home and office, it fell noticeably, and now the border of this price category passes somewhere around $ 200 (against $ 300 in 2001). Due to what it became possible such a significant price reduction? First of all, by reducing the cost (reduction of production costs through automation of technical processing), the use of low-cost components and minimizing the attraction of highly qualified personnel (engineers, applied software developers, etc.). But doesn't all this affect the quality of the final product? How to check it, because quality dependence on cost is unconditionally? That's actually for this and was conceived this testingwhich will further grow into a full-scale super-test of tablet scanners.

Specifications

Manufacturing firm	Hewlett-Packard.	Epson.
Model	ScanJet 3570c.	Perfection 1650.
Type of converter	CCD.	CCD.
Maximum optical resolution	1200 dpi.	1600 DPI
Maximum color depth	48 bits	48 bits
Interface	USB 2.0 (Full Speed)	USB 1.1.
Scan area	216x297 mm, A4 / 35-mm slides and negatives	216x297 mm, A4
Power supply	12 b, 1250 mA	24 b, 800 mA
Slide adapter	Built in the lid adapter for 35 mm films	Optional
dimensions, mm	300x500x85	276x450x93.
Weight, kg	3,2	2,6
Approximate value	$144	$126

Supplies and Appearance HP Scanjet 3570c

I will start with the fact that due to the small weight of the scanner (only 3.2 kg), the handles of its packaging box are not reinforced by any additional inserts, so you can bring a purchase home without worrying that the handles during transportation will be torn off.

Opening the box, among the sets of delivery, I discovered the following components:

uSB cable;
power Supply;
user manual (in Russian);
information sheet for service and support;
one CD with drivers and HP software.

And, as noted above, the adapter for 35 mm originals is originally embedded in the ScanJet 3570C cover, while ScanJet 3500s / 3530s is only optional (i.e. purchased separately).
The plastic scanner body is decorated in a gray-blue gamut. It should be noted that the design of the apparatus is well thought out and will endure even the most picky examination. I note good tightness of the body, so that the dust microparticles will never be poured on the inner side of the glass or on the converter matrix. In addition, to impart the design of the scanner of the necessary strength, the elements of the housing are equipped with rigid ribs.
The top cover of the scanner in which the active slide adapter is built, is made completely removable. This property allows the original of any thickness on the glass scanner (for example, a big encyclopedic dictionary), or even put the scanner itself to the original (apply the device to the wall and scan the wallpaper). I note that it is far from all the devices this class.
The front panel of the scanner made four quick scan buttons, the purpose of which is indicated by the corresponding icons.

The first E-mail button launches the scanning program using parameters optimized to work with email. Scan result is transmitted to the installed postal program For transmission over the Internet. The next button with the image of the scanner implies direct scanning of images using Hewlett-Packard software. The "Copy" button on which the printer is drawn, sends how easy it is to guess, the scanned image directly to the printer. And finally, the fourth button is designed to quickly launch the multimedia album creation program, with further record of the last on CDs.

Installing the HP ScanJet 3570C scanner and related

The installation process is simple and executed literally "without looking" (in the instruction, of course). To begin with, the scanner needs to be connected to the computer's interface USB port (preferably, USB 2.0). After that, you need to connect a transparency material adapter cable (TMA transparency (TMA), which comes out of the scanner cover, to the correspondingly signed port on the rear panel of the device. Now it remains only to connect the power supply, after which Windows detects a new device, and the installation of drivers and software will come. Consider which programs have prepared Hewlett-Packard for the buyer of this device.
The installation of the associated software is made under the control of an interactive shell written on Macromedia Flash from a single delivery set CD. The installation of programs occurs in two stages: first is set to process photos and HP images, and then, at the request of the user, Hemera CD Design Creator 32 and Jigsaw Puzzler 32 (this package based on scanned images allows you to create labels for CDs and turn photos in mosaic games).
In addition to the software installation section, the shell allows you to view the interactive connection instructions, as well as to call the help system.

I consider it necessary to notice that your own Hewlett-Packard will require ... 225 MB of free disk space! Such a monster! Moreover, the most interesting, I can not say that the program package somehow strongly replete with a cascade of thin settings, has high flexibility and functionality, provides automatic separation of originals during batch scanning or has a colorful graphic shell - there is nothing, and for this reason It is not clear to what hundreds of megabytes of disk space leave. Moreover, during operation, it was noted that HP programs work extremely unstable, causing critical errors from time to time. However, about this later.

After installing software on the desktop, HP Director labels and the "Share-to-Web unloading folder" (directory where scans are sent) appear. The HP Director is a kind of "control center", from where the quick start of the associated scanning programs is carried out.

The user can choose between scanning images (photos, drawings) and text documents, creating a printed copy and viewing the scanned material. Let's consider each HP Director software element.
After the user activates the "Scan Image" module, a preliminary menu will open in which it will be necessary to specify the type of original to scan (original from glass, slides or negatives from the adapter). In principle, this request can be turned off by setting the appropriate check mark, and the type of original is set directly in the scanning program.

After selecting one of the items, the main window of the image digitization program opens. I decided to immediately check whether the ScanJet 3570C support packet scanning (BatchScan), placing three photos on its glass. Let me remind you that package scanning allows in preview mode to select multiple areas and set for each suitable parameters (thus, the user will noticeably saves time while scanning several originals). It turned out that on the scanner (although it ranks a quarter of a gigabyte) is not able to divide the scanned originals, which is very sad. You can, of course, scan the entire area of \u200b\u200boriginals, then cut images from using photoshopHowever, this will create not only excessive work for the user, but also a huge file on the disk.

The image scanning program (scanner driver) consists of three functional groups: preview windows, main menu and tool area. The window appears immediately after accessing the scanner (or via the quick scan buttons, or from the external software package). The start of work marks the event of warming up the lamp and the preliminary scanning of the original on the tablet. For SCANJET 3570C, this procedure is sufficiently long and takes 50 seconds. In the "anticipation of a miracle." PRESCAN without the cost of time to warm the lamp is 17 seconds. I note that the value of the timeout time for the lamp installed by the manufacturer in the driver is relatively small.
The lamp warming operation in the driver is not turned off, but you can set an increase in the timeout for it. Make it better immediately.

Driver scanner is not born manual settings On image digitization. By and large, the user is given the ability to select scan resolution, image size resizing, yes tone correctionbased on the picture in the preview window. The values \u200b\u200bof the sharpening filter values \u200b\u200bare discrete; The color correction implies the choice between two points "normal" and "improved color"; The DESCREEN filter is "hiding" under the "Remove Moir" item. Here, in fact, all.
After determining the boundaries of the original in the preview window, as well as tasks required settings You can click on the "Accept" icon, starting, thus, the scanning process.
If you plan to scan the documents containing text, the corresponding item is selected in HP Director. In the window that opens, the user does not have anything left, how to answer the question "What is scanned?", Because you cannot configure some scan settings here.
Document Scanning Program dialog box. An interesting feature: if you choose the destination - "save to file", the image will be recorded as a PDF file.

During the translation of the scanned material, the recognition program I.R.I.S. OCR sometimes there were strange mistakes, which, however, did not affect the final result.

Perhaps the most powerful software utility - "Gallery for processing photos and images HP". With it, you can not only view all sorts of graphic files, but also create photo albums, recording them on CDs, edit and prepare, publish personal photo files in Web and others.
When accessing a folder containing photos, the program represents them in the form of a miniature. Further possible actions with images are indicated by the menu buttons from above and on the right window.

I suppose that everyone who has a huge number of photos on a hard disk, I would like to organize all this "economy" by creating something like photo albums. Special HP software utility will help in this matter.
By selecting the files of interest and following the album multimedia creation wizard, create a video CD literally in two bills.

Next stage, to created disk The music file is attached, which will be played while displaying photos.

The CD recording parameters are set at the final preparation stage of the VIDEO CD.

Studying the shell scanning program, I found that some of its windows are based on Microsoft Internet Explorer.. Pay attention to the upper left corner of the dialog box: familiar IE icon. Then it is not at all clear that 225 MB of disk space left, even if even the driver's shell uses the MSIE core.

Summing up the interim results concerning only application software, one can say one thing: the main problems of this scanner are concluded in the morally backstand software, as well as in the driver that does not have sufficient flexibility of settings. By and large, the driver will not withstand comparisons on functionality with many, even outdated software shells from manufacturers such as AGFA or Mustek. I note that the configuration specified by the user is not saved before scanning, and every next time you have to set all over again. Well, HP programmers have something to work on. It is important only to clearly imagine the needs of the user.
With regard to technical support, there is also a serious remark. Imagine, even if you are the legal owner of the ScanJet 3570C scanner, you will not be able to download updated drivers and related software for it to free download from Technical Support HP. If, for example, you lost the installation disk, then you will have to lay out extra money to send a new one. Interestingly, despite the presence of a Russian-speaking page of the HP company, you will transfer you to the US site www.hp.com, where there is nothing without knowing the language.

Advantages:

Relatively low price per scanner with slide adapter
Fully localized user manual and software

Disadvantages:

Great time warming up lamp and scanning
"Bloated" volume of applied software, in no way supported by functionality
Flameless Scanner Driver Bugs
Charging the additional fee for updating the driver and applied software

Delivery set and appearance Epson Perfection 1650

At one time, Epson successfully mastered the market of tablet SOHO scanners and today suggests a lot of interesting models in the Russian market. Scanner that was selected for testing, although it is not the newest model (Perfection 1660 came to replace Epson Perfection 1650), but today it can be seen on the shelves of many computer stores.
The tablet single-passing EPSON Perfection 1650 scanner allows you to digitize printing originals with a maximum optical resolution of 1600 DPI (twin brother - the Epson Perfection 1250 model, scans from 1200 dpi). The scanner is equipped with its own processor responsible for accelerating image processing. In addition, it is thanks to him noticeably the load on cPU Computer. In Micro Step Subscription mode, due to the displacement of the scanning head in a step of up to 3 microns, the device operates with a resolution of 3200 dpi, which allows to obtain excellent images with good saturation of colors. According to the manufacturer, scanning images from 50 to 6400 DPI is carried out in 1 dpi step (in the 9600 DPI resolution interpolating mode and 12800 DPI are achieved by the scaling function).
Epson Perfection 1650 has an original, but nonsense appearance. Its housing is made of durable plastic, and the bottom profile has the necessary ribs. Move the scanning carriage along the guide rod is carried out due to the gear passion. The scanner tablet shows the division of the line with the designated boundaries of standard originals. The top cover of the scanner is removable, and the external slide adapter module (optional for this model) is installed in the number of the grooves. On the back of the device there is a mechanical retainer for locking the carriage when transporting, a power socket, a USB connector and a connector for connecting a slide adapter.

Complete with the scanner go:

USB cable;
Power supply 24 V / 0.8 A;
Installation manual;
CD with application software and detailed electronic version of the manual.

On the Epson Perfection 1650 front panel there are four quick scan buttons. Each designated a certain drawing, which is easy to guess its target destination.

In general, clicking on any button launches the scanning program with specified parameters, and the first button, highlighting the green light, simply activates the Epson Smart Panel application. By the way, in the event of an error, the same button starts flashing red.

Installing the Epson Perfection 1650 scanner and accompanying

The scanner package includes a single driver and software utility CD. Immediately before connecting the scanner to the USB port, you need to install a software package, and reminders about it are both in the reference manual and on the scanner itself as a special sticker. In the event that the scanner still be connected to the computer before installing its own software, operating system "Suggested" your own (simple) driver from the standard package.
So, set the CD into the drive. If you have a Russian-language OS, then the language will be selected automatically. Here, it should be noted, programmers from Epson clearly misunderstood one nuance. The fact is that to install the driver you need to go to the English-speaking section of the program (i.e., climb to one point up and select another language), and this is not said in the installation manual. This means that, despite the Russified paper and electronic version of the description, the scanner driver itself remains unlocated and for this reason is absent in the Russian section.
In the Russian-language part of the installer, you can select only one item: "Interactive Manuals".

To install the scanner driver, you will have to go to the English section.

From the CD, you can set the following software: Twain Driver, Epson Smart Panel, ArcSoft PHOROIMPRESSION and Adobe Acrobat. Reader 4.05.

Always, before installing any software it is worth checking, and did not appear on the technical support website updated version Drivers. I did this, immediately going on www.epson.ru. Fortunately, there I was waiting for a new and Russified version of the driver, which I installed instead of available on the supplied CD.

When the installation is completed, the scanner is connected to a computer. But because The scanner is equipped with a transport retainer that protects the carriage from mechanical damage When transporting the unit, it must be shifted to the unlock position before connecting it. However, otherwise you will not connect the plug, because in addition to blocking mechanics, the lock also closes the power socket.
The transport lock locks both the mechanics of the scanner and access to the power jack.

Let's see which software has prepared Epson for your scanner. The main startup window is Epson Smart Panel, in which all the necessary scan utilities are collected. The user just click on one of the eight icons to activate the required application.

The Copy icon starts the copy utility, due to which the bundle of the printer scanner can be used as copyrocaust. Visuality and simplicity of use of this utility will not leave even an unprepared user in thought. Copying the image of the original occurs in two passages. The first is PRESCAN, during which the boundaries of the original and the adjustment of brightness values \u200b\u200bare determined, and the second is the final scan stage, with the direction of the digitized image to the selected printer.
By setting the minimum of tuning parameters, the user will receive a completely functional home copy machine.

The following SCAN to E-mail icon launches the scanning program with predetermined parameters optimized for e-mail. Scanning the original, defining its size, - everything passes automatically, but the user is left ability to go to manual mode.
In the event that automatic scanning did not justify itself, you can go into mode manual control And to independently set the necessary settings.

Upon completion of the scan of one or a series of photos, you must specify the program emailThrough which will be sent.

Scan to OCR icon assumes scanning a document containing text, with a further direction the last program Recognition. I note that the Presto recognition program that comes in the kit is extremely poorly coping with its direct responsibilities. To achieve absolute results, it is better to use the verified FineReader.

The scan preparation program window to transmit symbol recognition program.

Help with the display of images from the scanner to the printer is designed by the program Epson photo. Print. Her main dignity is easy to use. The user practically "in two clicks" can indicate what he needs. Interestingly, the program automatically detects the orientation of the original and when displaying photography on the width of the sheet, it will take an all useful place when applying the function of auto-scale.

From the entire application software that is set as if "default" (i.e., without asking about it), the Epson Scan to Web program I considered absolutely useless. Its main purpose is to download scanned images to a personal page on EpsonPhoto sites. Epson's free page on the Internet - the idea, of course, is good, but only here in the huge list of countries there is no country (but there are countries such as Estonia, Burkina Faso or Seychelles of the island). By the way, the Hewlett-Packard company comes with a similar initiative, which, however, provides this service And for the Russian user.

SCAN TO WEB program window.

Of additional programs (In addition to Adobe Acrobat Reader) on a CD there is a powerful photo image editor ArcSoft Photoimpression. With this package, you can add special effects to scanned images, retouching photos, remove "red eyes", prepare images for printing on a photo printer and much more. By and large, first of all, this program will like novice users for whom Adobe Photoshop. Extremely complicated.
Now it is worth telling about the scanner driver, which is characterized by greater functionality and flexibility than the HP driver for ScanJet 3570c. For the apparent simplicity of the driver's software shell hides a practically complete list, for this scanner class, all kinds of settings. Unfortunately, as well as the device from Hewlett-Packard, there is no packet scan mode in the Perfection 1650 driver. Perhaps this is the only drawback.
The main window of the scanner driver is divided into the preview area and the tool area. Please note the "Unswake Mask" filter (Unsharp Mask), used in most cases when editing images, is not subject to the subsoil driver.

In the Scanner Configuration menu, you can enable or disable preview (What is important, the driver is implemented in the driver, i.e. every time you do not have to set everything again), as well as adjust the GAMMA parameters or assign a color correction color profile.

In the settings of the image parameters for digitization, you can manually set the point of white and black colors, set up the exposure and GAMMA.

All user settings are displayed in a special information window.

Summing up the description of the Epson Perfection 1650 scanner software part, it is impossible not to note the competent approach of Epson programmers, which clearly represent the needs of the scanner user. In principle, I found everything you need, studying the software part of both the driver and applied utilities.

Advantages:

Magnificent and very visual implementation of the driver and concomitant
High levels of technical support and regularly updated drivers
Detailed and Russified e-scanner description with user manual

Disadvantages:

Relatively big noise from long mechanisms
Initially unlocated software
Weak symbol recognition software included

Testing

About testing methodology can be read here.
Comparing design scanners, I would prefer the model from HP. This apparatus cover is decorated in style a la i imac And overflow depending on the angle of view. The model from Epson on the contrary looks rather in an office, strictly. The ergonomic assessment is objectively higher in Perfection 1650. First of all, due to the presence of links along the edges of the tablet. But the ScanJet 3570C risks at the edges are not applied. The quick scan buttons have each of the tested scanners, and they are equally functional. If we estimate how much a scanner is convenient for everyday work, then the main estimate will depend on the service capabilities of the application software, as well as the speed of the scanner. About this below.
ScanJet 3570C is distinguished by a relatively large pre-scanning time, which is associated with the lamp warm-up time, is 50 s (without warming up the lamp - 17 s). In addition, the time interval through which the scanner deviates the lamp (timeout), extremely small (it is good that the driver is provided in the driver!). I note that the resource of the lamp with a cold cathode is calculated for five years - no less (the typical time of operations for the refusal of such a lamp is about 10,000 hours), and therefore it is not entirely clear what you need to extinguish the lamp so soon. Interestingly, a great time of operation for failure is the main advantage of a lamp with a cold cathode, and the main disadvantage is the duration of heating when turned on. But Perfection 1650 on the contrary demonstrated very decent speed characteristics, especially in terms of the time spent on Prescan. How quickly the scanners perform tasks for digitizing typical originals reflected in the following table:

Speed

With regard to scan quality, relying first only on visual preferences, it can be said that the originals from the glass are digitized by ScanJet 3570c with relatively high quality, and from the slide adapter, it turns out somewhat worse, somehow amateur. The quality of the digitization of originals, Epson, at first glance, does not lose the device from HP.

Objectively evaluating both models helped testing that the following has shown:

The range of reproducible optical densities at the ScanJet 3570c is somewhat worse than perfection 1650. This displays a graph of the relative brightness deviation (segment 18 - 24).
In terms of digitization of light and halftone areas, as well as the accuracy of color reproduction, the ScanJet 3570c scanner was still better than his opponent. This can be seen by the behavior of the relative brightness deviation function at these areas of the color target, as well as values \u200b\u200bin the final table.

The set of normalized values \u200b\u200bin the final table made it possible to determine the winner of the testing. They became the HP ScanJet 3570C scanner, scored 4.48 points (against 4.21 at Epson Perfection 1650).

Total table

Model scanner	U impurities	U landing. colors	U Shadin	U halftone	U Light	Amount (U)	A place
HP Scanjet 3570c.	1,291933704	2,009892053	0,256476684	0,321993808	0,604299465	4,484595714	I.
Epson Perfection 1650.	1,753624829	0,306795592	1,394366197	0,243569087	0,509027027	4,207382732	II.

Now, with regard to the interface. ScanJet 3570C uses how the manufacturer stated, USB version 2.0 (i.e. it was logical to assume that the transfer would be 480 Mbps). In practice, it turned out that the difference between connecting to uSB ports 2.0 and USB 1.1 there is no. The transfer is only 12 Mbps, which corresponds to FullSpeed \u200b\u200bUSB. It is clear that the USB 2.0 specification stipulates three speed modes, but not every user realizes that USB 2.0 FullSpeed \u200b\u200bin terms of the data transfer rate is no different from USB 1.1. In this regard, there is no difference between the test scanners.

Conclusion

Summing up the final result, it is possible to definitely say that both scanners are not as perfect, as I wanted. Probably the fact is that their main purpose is to work at home, where the digitization requirements are not so great. If you want to select the scanner as correctly as possible, then imagine first that you need to do with it. Outline the range of tasks. If, for example, the scanner you buy to digitize text documents, in order to transfer the last to the format to work in Word, then make the focus on the speed of the device (to work with very large volumes of text, you may have to pay attention to the scanners with an automatic feeder originals). That is why in terms of speed, I prefer the scanner of Epson 1650. If you want to digitize home Photo ArchiveIn order to create a VIDEO CD or to rewrite electronic photos to your online page, choose a scanner with a large optical resolution and good color reproduction. This is especially important when displaying scanned images to a photo printer. Remember that the scanner software is important. Testing has shown that the quality of the ScanJet 3570C application, coupled with the paid service of updates, leaves much to be desired. Even considering the distribution of places in the final table in favor of the device from Hewlett-Packard, I would choose Epson Perfection 1650.

Seiko Epson has assigned a series of inexpensive tablet scanners Proud name "Perfection" (perfection). Simple bagging? We do not think so. In our opinion, the manufacturer complies with some tradition, calling new devices beautifully and loud. The idea is obvious: "As you call a yacht, it will break down." It will be interesting to check how much the Perfection 1650 photo is justified.

This model refers to the SOHO-devices class designed to use the house or in the office. The design of the device is simple: the rectangular plastic housing, on the front panel - cute in appearance and pleasant to the touch control buttons. On the back of the rear panel, in addition to connectors for connecting the power supply, USB cable and slide module, there is a retainer that blocks the carriage moving during transport. The design it is carefully thought out: in the closed position, the lock engine overlaps the power connector, so it is impossible to turn on the locked machine. True, given the fact that the design of the red mechanism Perfection 1650 photo eliminates spontaneous movement of the carriage even with strong jokes, the presence of the above safety mechanism looks more like a tribute to tradition.

The cover of the tablet, inside which, by the way, is located a slide module, if necessary, can be easily removed (for example, to scan thick books, albums, etc.). To do this, you need to disconnect the OPTION cable from the corresponding connector on the back of the scanner, lift the cover to the vertical position and pull up so that plastic pins come out of the mounting holes. The presence of a built-in slide module is another useful feature of Perfection 1650 photo. But before starting to work with slides, you need to disconnect the plastic seal from the cover, which is necessary when scanning paper originals. By the way, the scanner tablet is graded, which helps to be properly placed both frame-holders of slides and opaque originals of various sizes.

The electronic "filling" of the scanner produces a good impression - for each detail, the painstaking operation of designers and installers is felt behind each screw. Stepper electric motor and both printed circuit boards Screened, signal loops are fixed by holders, all mirrors of the optical system are rigidly fixed.

Perfection 1650 Photo Built on the basis of Epson E02A34EB branded processor. The remaining components of the scheme (the listing of which is omitted for simplicity) is either also our own developments Epson, or produced by other well-known companies. For example, the moving carriage of the scanner is a stepper motor type EM-436 released OKI Electric.

To prepare a scanner to work, you must install the driver. We left for about 1 min.

The next step is to connect to the computer. At the time when the interface cable connects the included machine with system block, OS will detect and unmistakably "find out" scanner - Epson Perfection 1650 photo. Now you can proceed to work.

So, let's see how "perfect" perfection 1650. We launch Photoshop and select Epson TWAIN 5.54E in the File® Import menu. By default, the driver works in full automatic mode Full Auto, with it itself performs a preliminary scan and defines the type of document. After such a vigorous started, the question began to unwittingly, the question is: "What will you be for me?" What the driver, not embarrassing, answers: "Yeah!", After which it determines the size of the scan area, digitizes the original and opens a new window in Photoshop With a finished image.

Main driver window: Almost all controls are duplicated by pictograms.

Such a driver's independence is a certain plus for inexperienced users who scare the complex dialog boxes and the abundance of settings. But to achieve good results of one Full AUTO mode is clearly not enough. For experienced users, the MANUAL MODE mode is provided. To go to it, you need to press the Cancel button during the scanning process in the Full AUTO mode. So we did. As a result, opened dialog windowin which the default features are displayed by default: UNSHARP MASK, Color Correction, etc. Turning them off, so as not to load the driver with extra work, we measured the scanner speed, the level of acoustic noise when scanning, and also appreciated the convenience of work. with apparatus in different modes. Test Machine Configuration under windows control 98 SE was as follows: Intel Celeron. 800 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, GE-FORCE2 MX 400 video adapter, IBM Deskstar Winchester. The measurement of acoustic noise was carried out using the EUROAUDIO Pro 600 audio analyzer at a height of 1 cm above the geometric center of the scanner cover.

The scanning process of slides is organized very convenient.

The next test step was the practical rating of the range perceived optical densities. We scanned the halftone dies of the standard reflective original AGFA IT8.7 / 2, the optical density of which was previously measured by the X-Rite Digital SwatchBook spectrositheater. The results of this test pleased: as it turned out, Epson Perfection 1650 photo freely distinguishes the darkest plates of the table - 22 (2.01 d) and 23 (2.21 D). Consequently, the maximum optical density perceived optical density (Dmax) is at least 2.21 D.

Note that for scanning slides or films, the device will be required to prepare. First you need to remove the matte plastic plate from the lid by opening access to the slide module. Next, you need to install a film or slides in the holder and arrange it on the tablet glass in the upper right corner. If everything is done correctly, then after clicking on the PREVIEW button, the driver will hold the pre-scan and displays each frame in a separate window on the screen. To scan any frame now you will need only to highlight the desired window, set the required values \u200b\u200bof the resolution and depth of color, and then you will click on the SCAN button. Also supported scanning in batch mode, which is very convenient because it allows you to dig up all the frames or slides placed in the frame. And when scanning negatives, the driver independently inverts the image, turning it into a positive, and with good quality. For the sake of justice, we note that in this case the time of scanning increases twice. Therefore, to save time, when scanning negatives, we recommend installing a TPU: POSITIVE source in the scanner settings, and inverting from Photoshop.

Let's summarize. Epson Perfection 1650 PHOTO made a favorable impression: excellent design and excellent assembly guarantee uninterrupted operation for a long time, the scanning speed with permissions not higher than 300 ppi is simply excellent, in other modes - quite acceptable. Acoustic ("noise") characteristics should be recognized as satisfactory, but it cannot be called "quiet". The quality of the scanned originals is good, installing and connecting the scanner is simply running, the process of setting the scan settings is easy. Separately, a good word deserves the organization of scanning of slides and film films.

The most significant disadvantage should be considered the absence of an interface cable. The built-in power switch would not hurt, because to de-energize the device, each time "pulling out" the adapter from the outlet is not entirely convenient.

But nevertheless, in general, Epson Perfection 1650 photo can be considered an almost perfect home scanner or office. Not everything is perfect in this apparatus, but is there any absolute perfection? No wonder the ancient wise men argued that there are no perfections in this world, but there are ways leading to it.

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