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Plustek Photo Scanner - ePhoto Z300 - German Design Award Winner 2018 - Scan 4x6 Photos in 2s, Auto Alignment and Cut with CCD Sensor Supports Mac and PC

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Media type USB
Scanner type Photo
Brand Plustek
Model name Ephoto Z300
Connectivity technology USB
Product Dimensions 29D x 16W x 15.8H Centimetres
Resolution 600
Item weight 1.5 Kilograms
Wattage 18 watts
Sheet size Letter, A4

About this item

  • The easiest way to scan photos and documents. Supports 3x5, 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 in sizes photo scanning but also letter and A4 size paper. Optical Resolution is up to 600 dpi ( PS: two setting: 300dpi/ 600dpi).
  • Fast and easy, 2 seconds for one 4x6 photo and 5 seconds for one 8x10 size photo@300dpi. You can easily convert about 1000 photos to digitize files in one afternoon and share with your family or friends.
  • More efficient than a flatbed scanner. Just insert the photos one by one and then scan. This makes ePhoto much more efficient than a flatbed scanner.
  • Powerful Image Enhancement functions included. Quickly enhance and restore old faded images with a click of the mouse. Advanced editing functions are also available when needed.
  • ePhoto Z300 works with both Mac and PC : Supports Windows 7/8/10 , Mac OS X 10.8.x to 10.15.x . User can download the latest version on Plustek website.

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intutive photo scanner

Simple, Intuitive, No Buttons Operation

Say goodbye to the days with slow flatbed scanning! With Plustek ePhoto Z300, scanning photos and other memorabilia has never been easier.

Think about it – it usually takes 1 to 2 minutes to scan a single photo on a flatbed scanner, but now a 4x6 photo just needs 2 sec to be scanned and stored, which means you can scan 3,000 photos in just one afternoon.

ePhoto Z300 is a scanner specifically designed for scanning photos. Technically speaking, Z300 uses a special soft roller to protect old photos that have not been touched for too long. It also has installed a high-quality CCD sensor inside. The CCD sensor has the highest degree of reproduction for color images. Z300 also features an optical detection and does not require complex button operations. With Z300, scanning a 4x6 photo only takes up to 2 seconds. You only need to put the photos one by one into the paper clip, and the Z300 will automatically detect and scan.

Special soft roller

If your photos are not exactly in the perfect condition, the surface can be easily peeled off or stuck. In order to avoid photos jam, ePhoto adopts a single sheet feeding design and a button-free operation. Z300 uses a soft scanning roller with special materials to protect your invaluable photo collections without any scratches.

If you have thousands of photos taken with your family over decades and you're not comfortable sending them to a stranger to help you scan, Plustek ePhoto Z300 is you best choice. You can do everything at home and still have the best quality.

The quickest way to digitize your memories

easy fix your photo color back

Amazingly versatile

auto crop and deskew

Preserve your priceless photos

Scanning photos into digital files allows you to permanently preserve your photos without causing any physical damages to them.

ePhoto can also restore faded photos. You can choose between automatically recover or manually adjust with the software.

Amazingly versatile

Support versatile size photographs, documents and cards. With Z300, you can easy archive your photography, your travel postcards or even manage your entire cards collection.

Scan area varies from 1"x1" to 8"x11.5" size and can hold up to 0.24" thick paper or card. All you need to do is to put your photos into the sensor and ePhoto will do all of the work for you.

Simply Automated

Simply put the photos or cards to feeder, no presorting required. The application software can automatically detect paper size, crop blank area and rotate. Digitizing pictures and documents has never been easier with Plustek ePhoto!

Scan save and share

Scan - Save - Share. Simple as that!

ePhoto comes with customized software which can auto deskew and auto crop the photos so you don't need edit each photo yourself.

There are a lot of tools in the software for quick editing. You can adjust the sharpness, exposure or contrast of the photos. You can also use LOMO or Sence effects for your photos. The software is equipped with a comparison function to make it easy to compare the images before and after adjustment.

For saving, ePhoto can save scanned images under various file formats (Jpeg, PDF, TIFF, etc.) You can save the file on your computer, your cloud account or upload directly to FaceBook , Instagram, FLICKR, etc. Share your precious memories to your friends.

Share with family and friends

scan photo

scan paint

scan document and receipt

scan card

Sharing your memories with your beloved people

How many photos do you store in shoe boxes, cabinets or stuck somewhere in the folders? Use Z300 to re-scan your valuable memories, sort them in a customized way, and use the software to edit the images so that your memories are no longer just laying in a cabinet or a box. Now you can share your invaluable memories with the ones you love.

Creating your own painting collection

Do you still keep your precious graffiti from your childhood? The paper will fade as time goes by. However, with the Z300 and its high-quality CCD sensor, you can easily digitize these invaluable treasures, store them on your computers and share with your friends and family at anytime!

Photos… and more

Not only photos but you can also scan your bills, receipts, application forms, etc. Basically you can scan any document up to A4 size. The OCR technology can help you save your scanned files as searchable PDF file format. Plustek ePhoto is not only a powerful scanner, it is also a decoration to your work place.

A new way to share and preserve your card collection

A lot of people have huge card collections (baseball, basketball cards, etc.) and preserving their treasures is one of the most difficult tasks. Of course you don’t want to keep your collections secured in a box. They are made to be seen and admired by other collectors. Plustek ePhoto can easily digitize your collections and upload into an album so that you can share with your communities.

scan your old photo and being photo back to life

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sheet capacity
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paper size
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4.5 out of 5 stars
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8,245 global ratings
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5 out of 5 stars
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Final User Update on scanner April 25 2019.Spoiler alerts : Photos are extremely dirty even if in an album. Also the sticky stuff on photo album plastic sheets comes off and sticks to back of photo. This causes scanner to give the scanned photo black lines or makes them crooked. This happens all at once so you immediately stop scanning. To fix this I use my glasses lens wipes to clean scanner glass every 200 photos. You will see crud (fingerprint oils, glue, etc) on the wipes from the photos.Light bulbs lose a tiny bit of output power every scan. So if scanning large amounts of photos be sure to use the enclosed "white paper" to readjust the white light. This adjusts the colors to the new light power value. I did it every 500 photos.Have now scanned 13,786 photos allowing me to discard 42 large albums from their shelves.All my kids will now have their own digital family photos.You can adjust this scanner in manual settings to scan the ordinary photo at 6 megs and a 8"x10" photo at 20 megs.The scanner automatically makes old photos better, very amazing.You can tweak each photo to your heart's content with the photo adjustment features.If photo dark then it lightens it up automatically. Great feature.At highest resolution takes 15 seconds to scan a photo or 50 every 15 minutes.At factory setting it takes 2 seconds to scan a photo at around 450 kb.15 seconds at highest 6 meg resolution.If I had taken the photos in to a store to copy onto USB it would have cost me over $7,000 cdn.Ordered it on a Saturday, received it the following Friday.Awesome service!Have 40+ large photo albums to scan to make room on shelves.Photo shows cell phone stopwatch screen : 50 photos scanned in 15 minutes.I scan 50, then before saving them to files, edit the photos.Can take a 1970stype 110 photo which scans at the basic setting of 0.6 megs and by resetting the scanner, have it scanned and saved at up to 6 megs. And the new photo is better than the original.Other attached photos show the options for editing the photos. Lots to choose from.If you put a photo in crooked a bit the program realigned it for you automatically.In our photo albums we include little pieces of paper that describes the photos, sometimes funny.And guess what..The scanner can take the little pieces of paper too that they show up in your files so you can keep everything.I was looking for a scanner that I could afford and found this one.Scanning photos going back to 1950s.We have been putting off this project for years because our current scanner is the type that you open the top lid, put in photo, close lid, scan it, open lid, continue. No thanks.Attached video shows photo scan at highest resolution which is 15 seconds at 600 dpi but an override setting make sit even better, a high resolution scan of come out at 5-6 megs.Basic resolution scans in 2 seconds at 300 dpi.Would I buy it again.... Yes.
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GottaStopBuyingStuff
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought this 2 years ago. Here are some of my thoughts.
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2021
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I bought this so I could begin the arduous task of scanning my parents' photo albums. We have over 30000 photos that need to be scanned, so I wanted something I could use for a day or two each time I went home, so I could get all of them scanned over the next few years.

Pros:
- Price: Got mine for $250. Price seems to have gone up, not sure why.
- Easy to use: Directions are clear, quick installation, software is straightforward.
- Fast: Takes only a couple seconds per photo (300 dpi). Once you have a good system set up you can fire them through pretty quickly.
- No issues after 2 years of occasional use.

Cons:
- One photo at a time.
- Higher quality scans (600 dpi) takes 7ish seconds per photo to scan.
- Can only scan 30-50ish photos into the software before you need to stop and save them to your computer. Guess this might not be a terrible thing, though.
- Software could have more features. Feels a little lacking.

I'm nitpicking of course. I like this scanner. I would have preferred one that could scan a group of photos all at once, but they were well out of my price range. I can scan around 200 photos per hour once I get a good rhythm going, and that includes making sure the cropping & rotations are correct, saving them to the correct folder after each batch, and getting the new pile ready to go. And the occasional coffee break.

Summary: Worth it for $250.
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Cathi
5.0 out of 5 stars Quick and easy to use!
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2024
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Love the editing ability, it helped make old photos look vibrant and colour true again. Fast scanning and compact at a fraction of the price of many photo scanners
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ForchEh
4.0 out of 5 stars Hardware is create, software has potential!
Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2021
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First, it is a wonderful product overall. I am zooming through images, and am slowing seeing my storage boxes disappear.

The software is simple, but a bit too simple. I imagine this is done on purpose so that they're 45+ year old customers can use it without many problems. (It's not hard to guess the demographics for this product... 35MM film, anyone?) The changes I am suggesting will still keep the interface "simple", but give more tech-savvy user the ability to maximum there time. (And will be more ergonomic for our 45+ year old wrists! :)

So, I'll bring your rating to a 5 if I can see some improvements in the software. Here are my suggestions:

On the initial scan window: Please let me a right-click option on each photo, so I may rotate it 90/90/180. Two clicks per image rotation and almost no mouse movement would be awesome. (please don't forget to let this be a multi-select item as well, it would be nice if I could rotate 10 selected images at once.)

UPDATE: I am able to select multiple images at once and rotate them using the button at the top-left. (So, at least I don't have to do it one at a time). Would still like "Right-Click" option.

In the same right-click menu in the option above, please add the short-cut to "...crop in photo editor". 99% of the editing I do is cropping, so why not give us an option to open it, crop, save, close. Period. It's not very ergonomic for the most used editor feature.

Speaking of CROP: After I select the crop ratio, the application needs to remember the value. There is a very good chance that that will be the setting ratio for my next crop.

Please remember, some of us have a 24" screen. That is a LONG DISTANCE between the top-left corner and the lower images, especially the next 10000 times I do it! :)

Add some audio: Warning sound when approaching the 50 picture limit, as I am facing away from my screen, and I don't know the current count. Once I get to 46 or so, a beeping noise, or a voice counting up (46, 47, 48, 49, 50) as it gets close to the limit. (Prevents surprised with scanning stops, and an unnecessary click to close the pop-up window.)

Again, the product works well. I enjoy the manual feeding too; it is easy to use (with a short bit of practice). A side option would be to put the software in GitHub; or to please let me know if you need a software tester.
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Mark G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and easy
Reviewed in Canada on June 2, 2024
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Having used flatbed scanners for years, this unit is a real time saver. Definitely worth the price.
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odp
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent copier
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2019
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 Final User Update on scanner April 25 2019.

Spoiler alerts : Photos are extremely dirty even if in an album. Also the sticky stuff on photo album plastic sheets comes off and sticks to back of photo. This causes scanner to give the scanned photo black lines or makes them crooked. This happens all at once so you immediately stop scanning. To fix this I use my glasses lens wipes to clean scanner glass every 200 photos. You will see crud (fingerprint oils, glue, etc) on the wipes from the photos.

Light bulbs lose a tiny bit of output power every scan. So if scanning large amounts of photos be sure to use the enclosed "white paper" to readjust the white light. This adjusts the colors to the new light power value. I did it every 500 photos.
Have now scanned 13,786 photos allowing me to discard 42 large albums from their shelves.

All my kids will now have their own digital family photos.
You can adjust this scanner in manual settings to scan the ordinary photo at 6 megs and a 8"x10" photo at 20 megs.
The scanner automatically makes old photos better, very amazing.
You can tweak each photo to your heart's content with the photo adjustment features.
If photo dark then it lightens it up automatically. Great feature.
At highest resolution takes 15 seconds to scan a photo or 50 every 15 minutes.
At factory setting it takes 2 seconds to scan a photo at around 450 kb.
15 seconds at highest 6 meg resolution.
If I had taken the photos in to a store to copy onto USB it would have cost me over $7,000 cdn.

Ordered it on a Saturday, received it the following Friday.
Awesome service!
Have 40+ large photo albums to scan to make room on shelves.
Photo shows cell phone stopwatch screen : 50 photos scanned in 15 minutes.
I scan 50, then before saving them to files, edit the photos.
Can take a 1970stype 110 photo which scans at the basic setting of 0.6 megs and by resetting the scanner, have it scanned and saved at up to 6 megs. And the new photo is better than the original.
Other attached photos show the options for editing the photos. Lots to choose from.
If you put a photo in crooked a bit the program realigned it for you automatically.
In our photo albums we include little pieces of paper that describes the photos, sometimes funny.
And guess what..
The scanner can take the little pieces of paper too that they show up in your files so you can keep everything.
I was looking for a scanner that I could afford and found this one.
Scanning photos going back to 1950s.
We have been putting off this project for years because our current scanner is the type that you open the top lid, put in photo, close lid, scan it, open lid, continue. No thanks.
Attached video shows photo scan at highest resolution which is 15 seconds at 600 dpi but an override setting make sit even better, a high resolution scan of come out at 5-6 megs.
Basic resolution scans in 2 seconds at 300 dpi.
Would I buy it again.... Yes.
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odp
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent copier
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2019
Final User Update on scanner April 25 2019.

Spoiler alerts : Photos are extremely dirty even if in an album. Also the sticky stuff on photo album plastic sheets comes off and sticks to back of photo. This causes scanner to give the scanned photo black lines or makes them crooked. This happens all at once so you immediately stop scanning. To fix this I use my glasses lens wipes to clean scanner glass every 200 photos. You will see crud (fingerprint oils, glue, etc) on the wipes from the photos.

Light bulbs lose a tiny bit of output power every scan. So if scanning large amounts of photos be sure to use the enclosed "white paper" to readjust the white light. This adjusts the colors to the new light power value. I did it every 500 photos.
Have now scanned 13,786 photos allowing me to discard 42 large albums from their shelves.

All my kids will now have their own digital family photos.
You can adjust this scanner in manual settings to scan the ordinary photo at 6 megs and a 8"x10" photo at 20 megs.
The scanner automatically makes old photos better, very amazing.
You can tweak each photo to your heart's content with the photo adjustment features.
If photo dark then it lightens it up automatically. Great feature.
At highest resolution takes 15 seconds to scan a photo or 50 every 15 minutes.
At factory setting it takes 2 seconds to scan a photo at around 450 kb.
15 seconds at highest 6 meg resolution.
If I had taken the photos in to a store to copy onto USB it would have cost me over $7,000 cdn.

Ordered it on a Saturday, received it the following Friday.
Awesome service!
Have 40+ large photo albums to scan to make room on shelves.
Photo shows cell phone stopwatch screen : 50 photos scanned in 15 minutes.
I scan 50, then before saving them to files, edit the photos.
Can take a 1970stype 110 photo which scans at the basic setting of 0.6 megs and by resetting the scanner, have it scanned and saved at up to 6 megs. And the new photo is better than the original.
Other attached photos show the options for editing the photos. Lots to choose from.
If you put a photo in crooked a bit the program realigned it for you automatically.
In our photo albums we include little pieces of paper that describes the photos, sometimes funny.
And guess what..
The scanner can take the little pieces of paper too that they show up in your files so you can keep everything.
I was looking for a scanner that I could afford and found this one.
Scanning photos going back to 1950s.
We have been putting off this project for years because our current scanner is the type that you open the top lid, put in photo, close lid, scan it, open lid, continue. No thanks.
Attached video shows photo scan at highest resolution which is 15 seconds at 600 dpi but an override setting make sit even better, a high resolution scan of come out at 5-6 megs.
Basic resolution scans in 2 seconds at 300 dpi.
Would I buy it again.... Yes.
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Elizabeth A. Koch
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love This Scanner
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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Like many others, I have multiple boxes of old photos, and I've started on the project of converting them to digital images. I put a lot of time into researching photo scanners, and the ones I was interested in were pretty pricey. Timewise, this project is out of the question using the flatbed scanner available in my printer. After a lot of research, I decided on this Plustek scanner. I've had it for about 7 or 8 months now, and I love it. You can scan up to 50 photos at a time with no buttons or adjustments - just feed the photos in one at a time. At 300dpi, the process is fast.

The images drop into Plustec's software, and you have the ability to do some editing and color adjustment. I've found that this software works well for me, is easy to use, and is all I need. I just want to get all these photos scanned in and organized and I'm not terribly interested in any serious editing at this point. I'm especially happy with the color enhancement that's available for those old color photos from decades past that are fading or turning yellow - it really gives those photos new life, just by clicking on a button or two. I have other photo editing software on my laptop, and I'll worry about serious editing later, if I even decide to go that far. After I've made any quick color adjustments, I just move the photos onto my hard drive, where I can organize them., and save them on an external hard drive.

The Plustek scanner does a great job and has a very attractive price tag. The user manual is detailed and very helpful. I've heard good things about the customer service, but I haven't needed to use it. There's also a case available for it here on Amazon, and I keep it in the case on my desk to eliminate dust. The scanner doesn't take up much room on the desk, so I keep it there to work on my scanning project when I have a little extra time. I recommend this scanner for anybody who's looking to tackle a photo archiving project without breaking the bank.
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Carlos Salinas
5.0 out of 5 stars Rápido y muy buena calidad
Reviewed in Mexico on May 17, 2022
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Este scanner es exactamente lo que necesitaba para digitalizar gran cantidad de fotos antiguas. 2 a 3 segundos por foto. Si son muchas fotos, es recomendable guararlas en carpetas ordenadas por fecha o por tema. Muy recomndable
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Moomendemal
5.0 out of 5 stars Schnell, gut und einfach
Reviewed in Germany on June 22, 2024
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Diesen Scanner habe ich vor ein paar Monaten angeschafft zur Digitalisierung meiner historischen Familienfotos, und zum Einscannen von Briefen und alten Handschriften. Beides funktioniert bestens. Der Scanner ist blitzschnell und angenehm kompakt im Vergleich zu meinem alten Flachbettgerät. Mit der Bildqualität bin ich völlig zufrieden; es ist erstaunlich, wieviele Bilddetails man auf einmal erkennen kann, wenn man die Fotos im Großformat auf dem Bildschirm sieht. Für die Verarbeitung eines Fotos braucht der Scanner gerade mal 2 Sekunden.

Die mitgelieferte Software ist leicht zu bedienen und sehr effektiv - sie erledigt im Grunde dank guter Voreinstellungen das meiste von selbst, wobei man, wenn man möchte, auch alles händig einstellen und verändern könnte. Die Funktionen zur Bildverbesserung sind gut durchdacht und wirksam; es ist schön, die alten Schwarzweiß-Fotos mit gutem Weißabgleich und die alten Farbfotos mit frischen Farben ohne Gelb-Rot-Stich zu sehen.

Fazit: eine gute Anschaffung.

Die übliche Einschränkung bei einem Einzug-Scanner ist halt, man kann nur Einzelseiten scannen. Keine Bücher oder Zeitschriftenseiten.
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Sahand
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Reviewed in Sweden on May 18, 2024
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santelm
5.0 out of 5 stars Utilisation facile & Résultat parfait
Reviewed in France on April 12, 2024
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Je suis totalement satisfaite de cet appareil acheté il y a presque un an.
J'ai entrepris de faire des livres photos. Pour les périodes où les appareils numériques n'existaient pas encore, j'avais les négatifs (souvent jaunies) et les photos en bon état.
Scanner les photos avec le scan de mon imprimante prenait un temps fou.
Avec cet appareil, c'est rapide et le résultat est fantastique.
Je ne l'utilise pas avec la définition la plus fine proposée pour aller plus vite et parce que le résultat est largement suffisant pour mon livre photo. La photo est scannée en 2 ou 3 secondes.
Mais, si sur une photo spécifique que l'on veut agrandir, on souhaite une définition très fine, c'est possible mais plus long.
Il y a un peu de prise en main coté informatique
-le système doit être mis en route depuis l'ordinateur, le bouton ON/OF d'allumage n'est pas suffisant.
- il faut tâtonner pour gérer le dossier des photos scanner.
Mais, une fois l'outil pris en main, ce n'est que tu bonheur !
Il y a même la possibilité de retoucher les photos. J'ai utilisé cette fonction pour une photo sombre et jaunie de mes grands-parents. Le résultat a été suffisamment bon pour pouvoir être agrandi et encadré.
Je suis très contente de mon achat. Ce scanner me fait gagner du temps, il est pratique à utiliser et le résultat de grande qualité.
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