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Customer Review
- Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2023I wanted to buy the Fujitsu ix1600 at first because of its folding and dust protecting design, but then as I was reading into its manual I noticed that it is not capable of scanning directly to NAS or shared drive which to me is a must-have feature because I don't always want to have a computer connected to it just to do scanning. This Epson model seems to be the same as the RR-600w which has different color and with additional software included. I didn't want to justify paying extra $100+ just to get the PDF software so I decided to just get the lowest cost possible machine with the same features.
With this machine I can create multiple pre-sets with path pointing to a Network Folder for different purposes. (eg. Home Bills, Work Documents, Archive Doc before Shred), this way I can start scanning to PDF as I discover/locate unwanted paper docs and scan them before I destroyed them knowing I have a digital backup. (This to me is the one and only reason I'm getting an expensive scanner). It was very disappointing that all the companies out there wanted to make you Scan to Cloud, but honestly, Bills and work docs are sensitive and I'd never put them in the Cloud, not to mention I have to send it through a 3rd party. (Seriously, why trade convenience over security and safety).
Anyway, had this unit have the foldable back support design like the Fujitsu, it'd have 5-stars, now I have to buy a dust cover and it will always have a taller than supposed to be footprint when unused. But with the scanning directly to Network Folder or computer shares, this is the feature I'd say all expensive scanner must have. (OCR can rely on computer, but so can you later process the scanned PDF from folder when you have the time).
As for scan quality.... Really, who cares, 200dpi, 300dpi, 600dpi, nobody cares because as long as it has descent file size, readily readable and better quality than snapshot using a phone, it's all good.
It would have been PERFECT if the portable models from Epson are capable of scanning to Network Folders/NAS because I'd have opted for a less expensive and less powerful/fancy model to get the job done as an "Occasional User", I find it crazy to have a $500 dollar machine just to do scanning whereas my MFP costs only 450 and does 3 things. (Though scanning takes a bit more time when dealing with double-sided scans)
Updated 2023-01-15:
After using it for one full day, it is fast and save lots of time archiving documents. BUT, scanning photo is worse than horrible, so don't even think about it. I think Epson specifically dumified it so to deter professionals to use it to scan photos. But for a home user, this is useless as a photo scanner because results are blurred and feel like there are some post-processing done at the machine. Using TIFF as the resulted format helped a bit, but if you want photo scanned, using your MFP will produce better results than this $500 scanner.
