

And who purchases the device with the optional single sheet feeder can automatically produce series of scans in batches.įor slides and negatives a single sheet feeding brings certainly no advantage. Whoever has the device in the office can thus produce a quick scan by pushing a button, and according to Epson buttons at the front offer even comfort functions like automatic creation of a PDF, automatic scanning with direct sending by mail, as well as a copy button with direct printout at the printer. According to Epson this positively affects the energy consumption and starting time, probably however not the scan quality. The Epson ReadyScan LED technology is characterised by the usage of white LEDs. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later will also usually work on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra).Įpson sold this scanner in some countries as the GT-X770.The Epson V500 Photo was replaced by its successor V550 Photo in November 2013. Note that Epson drivers for Windows Vista or later will usually work on Windows 10. You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Linux. On Mac OS X, this is normally already installed by Software Update, so VueScan should just work. You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Windows and macOS. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light. Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome.

It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan is compatible with the Epson Perfection V500 on Windows, macOS and Linux.
