This versatile scanner should easily meet the needs of nonprofessional scanning enthusiasts with its high quality and affordable price tag. Optical scanning resolutions of 300 dpi (photo) and 2,400 dpi (filmstrips and slides) combine with 36-bit color depth for exceptionally accurate, bright, and clear prints. The high bit depth results in precise color tones, allowing for superfine adjustments in color quality, while the high resolution keeps your images looking crisp with clean edges and rich detail.
The S20xi is simple to operate and can easily handle 35mm slides, filmstrips, negatives, and photographic prints. Maximum scanning size is 5 by 7 inches with up to 12 bits per color, linear internal resolution. Setup is a snap with plug-and-play installation provided via a USB interface. Scanning time is around one minute per frame or image, while the included software bundle lets you smooth, enhance, and otherwise maximize the quality of the originals. The S20xi also comes backed with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
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The HP Photosmart S20xi photo scanner is a film/photo scanner that provides high-quality scanned images from all 35 mm film formats; positive and negative strips, mounted 35 mm film and photographs up to 5 x 7 inches.
HP PhotoSmart S20xi Photo Scanner
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This versatile scanner should easily meet the needs of nonprofessional scanning enthusiasts with its high quality and affordable price tag. Optical scanning resolutions of 300 dpi (photo) and 2,400 dpi (filmstrips and slides) combine with 36-bit color depth for exceptionally accurate, bright, and clear prints. The high bit depth results in precise color tones, allowing for superfine adjustments in color quality, while the high resolution keeps your images looking crisp with clean edges and rich detail.The S20xi is simple to operate and can easily handle 35mm slides, filmstrips, negatives, and photographic prints. Maximum scanning size is 5 by 7 inches with up to 12 bits per color, linear internal resolution. Setup is a snap with plug-and-play installation provided via a USB interface. Scanning time is around one minute per frame or image, while the included software bundle lets you smooth, enhance, and otherwise maximize the quality of the originals. The S20xi also comes backed with a one-year warranty on parts and labor.
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The HP Photosmart S20xi photo scanner is a film/photo scanner that provides high-quality scanned images from all 35 mm film formats; positive and negative strips, mounted 35 mm film and photographs up to 5 x 7 inches.Customer Reviews:
Why did HP ever discontinue this product?.......2005-05-22
Five years of daily use and still scanning.......2003-09-25
Works occasionally.......2003-09-18
The software upgrades do nothing to solve the problem.
Buying expensive cables does nothing. Re-installing software does nothing.
Adding high quality USB ports does nothing.
Swapping computers (at least five different machines) does nothing.
Once in a while it works and then it works adequately.
You can tinker yourself to death with this one.
Unbeatable price/performance.......2003-06-15
I was worried about these slides degrading and the fact that nobody uses the projector anymore. Now the slides cannot degrade and are easily burned to CD for sharing with family.
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This scanner scans slides and negatives not at 1600 DPI, not at 1800 DPI, but at 2400 DPI. At this resolution you can easily blow up photographs, find hidden closeups. I was able to zoom in on a family member's watch at 25 feet and tell the time, or zoom in in on a 2mm object in a 5x7 photo and tell that it is a "no parking" sign. As it is, a 2400 DPI full size TIFF takes up 20Mb of disk space. More resolution and you will have outrageously large files, unless you want to use lossy JPEG compression. You will most likely need to purchase a big hard drive and extra RAM if you are archiving many slides or negatives, but with the low price tag of this scanner you can buy drive and memory with the money you save.
Installation was a snap. Simply install the driver software, stick the scanner in the USB port and you're good to go. The scanning software is easy to use. It takes about one minute to preview, size, and scan a slide. The software allows you to save a size filter so you can don't have to adjust the preview borders for every image.
The HP Photosmart software does not come with many bells and whistles. The multimedia organizer software from Broderbund is next to useless. The ArcSoft PhotoImpression software is also next to useless, unless you like running silly filters on photos. It does not have a good auto levels, auto contrast, or auto color, or dust correction, or anything. It allows you to crop and rotate images and remove redeye. I'd recommend checking out ACDSee or freeware image browsers. The scanning software does not include curve tools or ICE/GEM image enhancement. However, you can always purchase Photoshop and the correction plug-ins from Applied Science Fiction. You may also want to check out batch image processing applications like Debabelizer or RoboEnhancer for ACDSee. Some of these tools I have not yet purchased -- merely researched on the net.
A few places for improvement:
1. The scanning software cannot save TIFFs using deflate/ZIP or LZW compression. Zip compression decreases image size on disk by about 20-25 percent.
2. It would be nice if it supported batch scanning of slides with a tray, but for $... I won't complain.
3. Negatives don't seem to scan as well as slides, but that could be because negatives deteriorate faster than slides.
4. It would be nice if the scanning software had auto edge detection for images and default to that so you wouldn't need to run a size filter on every slide.
All in all, the HP Photosmart is a winner. Don't spend money on resolution and features you don't need. Save money for a system upgrade. Get this baby and you're ready to rock.
S20xi Photo Scanner.......2003-04-23
The slide scanner is great I would rate it 4 1/2 stars.
It is great on Slides (35MM) but won't do medium (120) format slides.
This is a down side for me.
It is a little slow but still gives a excellant image.
Be sure to dust off the sides and negetives before inserting them. This saves on image clean up later.
All in all I am very pleased with this product!
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