Epson FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-Speed Photo and Document Scanning System, Black

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Memory Card Slot	Receipt, Post Card, Photo
Scanner type	Photo, Document
Brand	Epson
Connector Type	Wi-Fi
Item Dimensions L x W x H	17 x 29.7 x 17.5 centimetres

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World’s Fastest Personal Photo Scanner(1) scan thousands of photos as fast as 1 photo per second at 300 dpi(2)
Preserve your priceless photos safe touch technology for worry free scanning upto 8.5 inches wide, plus postcards, Polaroid photos and panoramas
Second Generation Epson Fast Foto Software Scan, Restore, Organize and Share precious memories; Offers intelligent file organization tools
Flexible scanning offers modes for easy sharing (300 dpi), archiving (600 dpi TIFF) and enlarging (1200 dpi(4)); Handles multiple sizes in one batch
Powerful Document Scanning includes Epson ScanSmart Software with OCR; Scan receipts, tax records, wills and more, upto 45 ppm/90 ipm(5)
Easy to Connect includes both USB and wireless connectivity for flexible placement; Perfect picture imaging system bring new life to old photos with auto enhancement, color restoration, red eye reduction, de skew, crop, rotate
Easy Auto Upload and Backup instantly share your memories as you scan via Dropbox and Google Drive
Single Step Technology capture both the image and any handwritten notes on the back in a single scan; Operating Temperature: 41degree to 95 degree F (5 degree to 35 degree C)

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Style Name:1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)

Technical Details

Brand

Epson

Manufacturer

Epson

Model number

FF-680W

Part Number

FF-680W

Operating System

Windows, Mac

Max Printspeed Color

Printer Output Type

Color

Scanner Resolution

1200

Mounting Hardware

AC adapter with power cable, Carrier sheet, Start Here poster, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 cable, Cleaning cloth, FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-speed Photo and Document Scanning System

Number Of Items

Power Source

Batteries Included

Batteries Required

Wireless Type

802.11bgn

Data Link Protocol

802_11_BGN

Connector Type

Wi-Fi

Material Type

Plastic

Memory Card Slot

Receipt, Post Card, Photo

Product Dimensions

17.02 x 29.72 x 17.53 cm; 3.72 Kilograms

Item Weight

3.72 kg

Manufacturer

Epson

ASIN

B07DLX26BB

Item Model Number

FF-680W

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

4 October 2018

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1,201 ratings

4.6 out of 5 stars

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Style Name:1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)

Preserve what’s priceless with the fast-food FF-680W — The world’s fastest personal photo scanner (1). scan Thousands of photos — as fast as 1 photo per second at 300 dpi (2). safe touch technology offers worry-free scanning for virtually any size, including postcards and Polaroid photos. Second-generation Epson fast-food software makes everything easy, with convenient photo editing and smart file organization tools. Offering the ultimate in versatility, the FF-680W features a variety of modes for quick sharing, archiving and enlargements — plus documents, too. Additional features include easy auto-upload to cloud services (3) and single-step technology for 2-sided scanning. 1. As compared to other personal/consumer photo scanners, generally defined as photo scanners priced. 2. Based on average speed from start of scan to end of feeding, scanning thirty-six 4" X 6" Photos at 300 dpi in landscape orientation. Results may vary based on processor speed, memory and operating system of the connected computer. 3. Internet connection and active Dropbox or Google Drive account required. 4. Interpolated resolution is the doubling of the optical resolution using a software algorithm to increase dpi. 5. Based on letter-sized scans at 300 dpi in black-and-white, grayscale or color mode, using the USB interface. 6. Wirelessly scan, scan to the cloud, PCs or Mac with Epson fast-food software and Epson scan smart software, Installed on the connected windows PC or Mac; wirelessly scan to smartphones or tablets (Android/iOS devices) via the Epson documents can app. Internet access required. 7. For convenient and reasonable recycling options, visit our official site. 8. Smart way is an innovative partnership of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency that reduces greenhouse gases and other air pollutants and improves fuel efficiency.

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17 watts

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David Morrell

Great at what it does but needs a flat bed companion

Reviewed in Australia on 8 August 2020

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

This is the only affordable scanner that can whip through a batch of photos in double quick time. Quality may not be as good as a flatbed like the Epson Perfection scanners, but then, Perfection is the enemy of good if it takes so long you never use it for large jobs. However, a basic flatbed is still a good idea as a companion if you often have to scan small items like credit cards, receipts etc.. It is possible to scan them by putting them in a transparent carrier sheet, but it's fiddly and they can move during the rather violent scanning process (this thing can eject scanned photos a metre across the desk - it whizzes through 36 standard photo prints in seconds).

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Amazon Customer

Awesome Machine!

Reviewed in Australia on 25 September 2020

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

This scanner is very quick, impressive being able to scan both sides of documents at speed, no more waiting as for run of the the mill copy/scanners. So far good with photos too, also very quick. Love it!

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Aubrey C.

Excellent Speed, accuracy and ease of use

Reviewed in Australia on 2 July 2020

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

Overall and Excellent product.

Before any attempt at set up, the accompanying diagram should advise users to download proper set up instructions, as the diagram is inadequate and unclear.

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marg

Easy to use and fast

Reviewed in Australia on 5 December 2020

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

I have thousands of childhood photos, scanned so I could sideshow to my TV.
easy to use, fast and good quality.

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Lee Watson

Good Dust Cover

Reviewed in Australia on 13 December 2020

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

Good protection for the FastFoto

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D Cartwright

All Good!

Reviewed in Australia on 11 February 2019

Style Name: 1200dpi, WiFi, (2nd generation)Verified Purchase

Excellent product

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Spa Tub User

A super-fast, professional photo scanner but with one major downside of dust accumulation on the scanner head

Reviewed in Canada on 1 June 2018

Style Name: 600dpi, (1st generation)Verified Purchase

I am a long term photo archivist with long experience with the scanning of large numbers of photos, old and new. This year I decided I would start a 10,000 4x6" photo scanning job. As for much of the last 5 years I started this project using a "Epson B11B172171 Perfection 2480 Limited Edition - flatbed scanner". This had been a game changer for me in the past as I could load up a stack of photos and have them reliably scanned in a reasonable amount of time. It would rarely jam except on highly glossy prints. At most, I'd only have to lift up the scanner attachment and wipe off the glass of the flatbed scanner with my hand every 10 to 15mins or so (ie. no work needed). It was noisy but it did have a fan in the unit to provide for back-pressure, and fortunately, to suck out most of the resulting dust. The EPSON scan software also had a checkbox for dust removal which was beneficial. Now, the downside was the speed of this machine to scan photos. Using statistics, I determined it would take 30 days of 11 hours/day, entirely non-stop scanning to complete my new scanning job. At the rate I was progressing I knew it would take an eternity to complete this job so I thought I'd look around to see if anything new had come onto the market since the B11B172171 had come to market. That is when I discovered the EPSON FF-640.

I am writing this review after completing my 10k photo scanning job with the new FF-640. First and foremost, I was forced at gunpoint to purchase this unit because there was nothing else on the market (that I knew of) at consumer level pricing and scanning speed, so I had to bite the bullet at its rather 3x over-inflated cost.

My comments based on real experience with the unit:

- It is so fast that it gives you no time to do any other tasks.

- The other reviewers were spot on with their comments. You should assume that approx 25% of your scanning time will have to be allocated to constantly cleaning the entire insides of the scanner (every few minutes). With my prior B11B172171 scanner it mostly remained dust free but with the FF-640 you will literally have to clean the entire insides of the machine, and VERY carefully, for every 24 to 36 photos, or thereabouts. Dust specs accumulate on the narrow scanner glass window and lead to white streaks in all of the photos.

- Given the white line problem, you need to review your photos carefully after each batch scanning run to see if they are okay. I never had to do that, ever, with my prior B11B172171 unit.

- I usually have to re-scan a fair number of the photos due to the white streaks and the dust. I suppose I could alleviate these re-scans if I just cleaned the scanner after each batch of 24 photos.

- The scanning software (EPSON Scan 2) does not appear to have a checkbox for dust removal as did my older EPSON scan software but that wasn't a game changer for me.

- I exclusively use EPSON scanners since the early 2000s and they have all been wonderful but I'd have to say that the FF-640 "totally sucks" only due to its dust cleaning issue. Otherwise, it is quite a wonderful machine and professionally built.

- I also own the Fujutsu ScanSnap 500 which in one of the most amazing machines I've used in recent times. It is not a photo scanner but purely a document scanner. I've pumped a huge number of documents through it with no need for cleaning nor careful maintenance. The ScanSnap 500 + FF-640 are similar in professional build, speed and quality but the FF-640 seems to be have been released all too quickly before the dust issue(s) had been better resolved (especially based on the premium price I paid for it).

- I'd love EPSON to offer me a promissory note for a future scanner purchase to replace or upgrade the FF-640 with a better model which has a fan that sucks out the dust or will do a better job of cleaning the photos and/or scanner glass.

- I would recommend this scanner to anyone who needs to scan a large number of photos but you may want to wait for future models to come out which do a better job with the dust issue.

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John

Almost a Great Product

Reviewed in the United States on 24 March 2017

Style Name: 600dpi, (1st generation)Verified Purchase

This unit has the potential to be a phenomenal product, but has a potentially serious flaw. I have scanned over 5,000 prints with it and find an issue with it putting a bluish blob in the middle of scans, which is quite visible on faces and white backgrounds. I contacted Epson and they replaced my first unit. The new one was ok for a while, but is now doing this also. It's particularly frustrating because it is erratic.

After extensive testing, best I can tell is that the flatness of the photo (not surprisingly) is quite important. The scanner really hates (understandably) cupped photos, which make it jam or not even feed. When you get them to go through, however, they almost never have this problem, possibly because they are pushing up closer to the scanner glass. Concave photos (scan surface curved away from lens) seem more apt to have it. I can't blame the unit for poorly stored photos that aren't totally flat, nor can I definitively say this is the problem. Be aware if your photos aren't flat, you may want to take measures to flatten them first. I'm sure this will be a problem for many people. I am curious if anyone else is seeing this problem or has other explanations. I have cleaned the daylights out of it so that is not the problem.

In all other ways, I can mostly echo the positive comments made. A very fast, clever, unit with mostly good UI software that also does a good job of enhancing photos with the exception of red eye which is pretty bad. The red eye feature either misses red eyes or puts masks not on the eye or on spots like nostrils. It is also quite sensitive to dust--if you don't clean every five rolls or so, it is easy to get dust lines on your scans. On the flip side it is very easy to clean. It is expensive, but if you have a lot of photos and the time, it's easily worth it compared to outsourcing, especially if you split the cost with other family members/friends. Really great document scanner also when used with Epson Scan software.

I would really like to hear more from Epson about the blob problem and perhaps see more scan pressure on the paper, or maybe an accessory to help flatten photos if that is indeed the problem.

821 people found this helpful

Peter Parker

This FastFoto scanner is awesome. It's fast

Reviewed in Canada on 20 January 2018

Style Name: 600dpi, (1st generation)Verified Purchase

I have a top of the line flatbed scanner, and have been intending to scan years worth of family snapshots for ages. But it's such a labour-intensive process, I've never done more than a handful. This FastFoto scanner is awesome. It's fast, easy to operate, and produces great scans (with one caveat, see below). The bundled software greatly simplifies the task, as it auto-names each scan file. You specify a title for a bunch of photos (6th Birthday Party, Kids Recital, etc) and provide the date. The date can be exact (1992-May, or 1992-May-12), seasonal (1995-Summer), or broad (2000). Then click the Blue button. In seconds, the stack of photos feeds through the scanner and you have a series of sequentially-numbered JPEGs saved in a named folder. You can have it add more scans to the folder if the collection of photos from a particular event are more than will go through the scanner in one pass (about 20).

The Epson software is really well designed. It's clear they've spent a lot of time analysing real-world scanning work flows.

My only gripe is that the scans all have a very slight bluish cast. I've searched for a ColorSync profile that might correct this, but haven't found one. The Epson software includes an 'auto-enhance' option that does a pretty good job at removing it, but I'd rather the scans be colour-accurate to begin with.

Even with this minor flaw, I highly recommend the FastFoto scanner. With it, I might actually complete my family scanning project this year.

17 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Warning: Not for professional photo scanning! Fake TIFF files are actually compressed JPEGS

Reviewed in the United States on 27 March 2018

Style Name: 600dpi, (1st generation)Verified Purchase

This unit has some great features if you want to quickly scan tax documents. However, it is useless for getting a good-quality photo scan. I am a professional photo historian and graphic designer who scans and archives clients' photos for a living. I will only scan images as TIFFs to avoid compression artifacts. When choosing the TIFF option in the Epson 2 driver, I can see visible compression damage in the scan as if it were a lower-quality jpeg. TIFF uses lossless compression and I should not be seeing any visible artifacts. Comparison tests on both platforms and scanning high-quality original photographic prints confirm this. The TIFF option is actually scanning the file as a low-quality JPEG and then saving it as a TIFF file, which gives me a larger file but not higher quality! I called Epson about this issue and was told that this $700 scanner is made for speed, not quality, so I shouldn't expect good photo scan quality. I have a 10-year-old Epson flatbed that gives me beautiful TIFFs. For that matter, so does my $50 Canon flatbed. Epson should not be selling this as a photographic scanner.

446 people found this helpful

Mina

Incredibly fast, high quality scanning - but beware if you have mixed size or dirty images

Reviewed in Canada on 15 February 2018

Style Name: 600dpi, (1st generation)Verified Purchase

Forewarning: I ended up returning this to Amazon. If you have tons of single size media images (e.g. 4x8) you want to scan, and they have minimal debris/dust on them, this thing is INCREDIBLE. I mean, wow! It scans at lightning speed (either 300 or 600 dpi), scans both sides of the photo with a single pass, AND organizes them in this super intuitive software. Sadly, I had many photos that varied in size, often having bits of tape or dust on them. Because of this, I had to intervene quite regularly to clear a jam. This wouldn't be a dealbreaker if the printer was priced closer to $500, but at nearly $900, my expectations are much higher. Conclusion: purchase if you have stacks and stacks of one size of photo, with little or no debris on them. Otherwise, you may be disappointed.

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