Buy HP PhotoSmart S20xi Photo ScannerHP PhotoSmart S20xi Photo Scanner Product Description:
- Scans slides, negatives, and prints
- Scans 35mm film strips and slides at 2,400 dpi optical
- Scans photos at 300 dpi optical
- USB interface; 36-bit color depth
- Exclusive S20 scanning software to optimize and enhance photos
Customer Reviews
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133 of 135 people found the following review helpful.
Good beginner-serious amateur scanner
By Dave
After reading review after review for film scanners I decided to purchase the HP S20xi and I don't regret it. If I properly exposed a slide in the first place I hardly need to make any adjustments to the scanned sample. The S20xi scans my color and chromogenic negatives wonderfully. The scanning software that is including in the box is good. With it you can crop, adjust brightness, shadow areas, colors, etc. before you perform the actual scan. My only complaint so far (I've only had it for three days and I've scanned about 60 pictures so far) is the dust. I have a light box and I clean the neg/slide until I'm sure it's spotless before I put it in the scanner. The scanned image still has some dust spots and I've use air on the scanner to no avail. It's not too big of a deal to me to remove the dust spots using Photoshop, but it would be nice if the scanner had ICE or at least was willing to let my air remove the dust! Overall, I'm very happy with the S20xi...if you want to enhance your images for personal digital printing or simply archive your photo library to CD (as I'm doing), the S20xi is a good alternative to higher priced scanners.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.A dependable workhorse
By caninehead
I have an earlier SCSI version of this scanner (over 6 years old now and it still works great, how many IT products can you say that about?). In fact, it was my first scanner of any sort. It is a dependable workhorse that produces quality scans. The feeder for slides, film strips and prints is convenient. I use it to scan my 35 mm slides for submission to a magazine I contribute to and have had many published, some directly from the scans. It is rare that I ever scan above 600x800, even for direct publication. It is also a workhorse for my scans for web publishing and digital archiving. This scanner is the single best IT investment I have made over the years. HP's web site does include XP drivers for this scanner.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Good Amateur Scanner
By Gerald W. Stump
This scanner will do what the ads and reviews say it will do. This scanner does nice work on reproduction of family photos and slides into small paper prints. Resolution is marginal for display prints (depending on the slide and how large you want to go). I have used this scanner to archive 30 years of family and travel slides and am happy with the result. Now I am ready to start on film larger than 35mm and must turn to another scanner. I also would like to print 11x14 inch photographs and will have to rescan slides with a higher resolution machine. Keep in mind that this scanner will do the job it is intended to do but not much more.
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