![]() ![]() The FastFoto may seem relatively expensive compared to cheap A4 flatbed scanners that retail for just over $100. You could even pack it up after you're done and only bring it out every once in a while, without the need to plug in anything other than a power cable. The advantage of using Wi-Fi is that you don't have to set the scanner up next to your computer – you can put it anywhere you have space. It only supports the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band, but we didn't have any issues with it scanning masses of photos over our network to our Windows PC. It's not possible to scan photos to a phone over Wi-Fi (the app doesn't support this), but it you can scan wirelessly to a computer. For wireless connections, you'll have to use WPS to connect the scanner to your network. It downloads all the utilities you need to start scanning straight away and it isn't complicated. To set up the scanner, you have to download the software for your computer and connect the scanner via USB 3.0 cable (supplied). If you set up the scanner on your wireless network, you can scan documents directly to your phone as a PDF. ![]() We found it coped with double-sided scanning of an A4, 50-sheet document (100 pages) in just under two minutes. ![]() You can also use this unit as a document scanner to quickly complete jobs of 100 pages. The scan times are similar whether you use USB 3.0 or Wi-Fi. In our tests the FastFoto ripped through a typical batch of 36 pictures (the input tray capacity for photos) in 28 seconds at 300dpi, or 95 seconds to scan the same photos at 600dpi. You can also fine-tune the auto enhancement settings or disable them entirely, but there's no harm in leaving it enabled just to see out of curiosity if it can help your photos. It's easy to see if the changes are worth keeping, as the original scan is also kept so that you can compare the two, side-by-side. We were also quite impressed with the way it handled different sized prints in the one batch, as well as the automatic image correction options that can remove colour cast and fix minor imperfections on-the-fly. We tried it out courtesy of Epson and threw everything we could at it – from pristine prints to faded photos – and found it handled everything easily. This is the second generation of the FastFoto (the first didn't make it to Australia) and it seems to have ironed out the niggles that generally pop up in a first-generation product, as we found it worked pretty much flawlessly. Read laptops and tablets review Second generation ![]()
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