I'm going to hijack this thread a bit instead of starting a new thread if OP doesn't mind.
I've inherited my family collection of negatives and prints. I've worked my way through most of the negatives but I need to scan the prints as many of them do not have negatives associated with them. Most are smaller prints and snapshots. Will a basic Twain/document scanner do the job or does someone have suggestions for me to get something that'll do a far better job. It's going to be a tedious job but someone's got to to it and that someone is going to be me.
My V600 does a nice job with prints. See my previous post about its ICE and color restoration features.
Using the Epsonscan software that comes with the V600, ICE corrects creases, wrinkles, tears to a large extent on the prints. It takes twice as long to scan because it scans once for the picture normally., Then it scan a second time using infrared. Epsonscan software than compares the two scans subtracting out the creases. ICE also works when scanning color negative film. It won't work with Kodachrome color or BW negative films.
Color Restoration and Back Lighting on the V600 will help restore faded and discolored prints. The V600 does a pretty good job with that.
If you have 4x6" prints. Scan at 600dpi 48 bit color. That would give you a final file that's 3600 x 2400 which would pretty much fill up a 4K UHD TV screen which has 3840x2160. 600 may be too large for bigger prints as the files get huge and the time to scan increases. You might be better with 300dpi scans but you can test both resolutions to see which works best for you. Old prints don't give that much resolution anyway. So you can scan with less resolution and up-rez in post processing.
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