Review on 📷 PANSCN04 Pandigital Photolink 5x7 Photo Scanner - One-Touch (Discontinued) by Aaron Ali

I don't often write product reviews, and I certainly don't like writing negative reviews. But after buying and trying out a Pandigital Photolink scanner today, I almost feel like I should warn people about it. For the past few months I've been scanning hundreds of family photos one by one with the bulky but efficient Epson flatbed scanner we have. The prospect of a faster, easier scanning process—looking at a few hundred photos in an evening while I watch TV—seemed too tempting to pass up. So I ordered a pandigital scanner and it arrived today. As did many other reviewers. suggested I go through the pics tonight while watching TV. The scanner was easy to set up and worked as promised. The problem arose when I was looking at part of the final product - the scanned photos themselves. Photo after photo became flat, grainy, faded, distant - in a word, ugly. Every time I rationalized: I'm working with a bad photo, it's old, my big screen stretches it more than the old photo should, etc. But as I scanned more and more, every photo is the same, even from different parties, different eras, in different camps. To compare the results, I selected some photos I had just scanned and tried scanning them with Epson. I used the same DPI - 600 - as Pandigital. I then loaded the results and aligned them alongside the pandigital scans. The scans from Epson all looked good in the photo, just as I expect from a digital photo if I don't justify a bad buy. I have made. They burst, the colors were beautiful, the faces were full. The pandigital scan, on the other hand, looked bad. They were faded, grainy and flat. The difference was evident in every single example. I'm not particularly picky about that. Old photographs are old photographs, and often there's not much you can do with them. But there is a difference between old and cheap. They looked cheap. I wish it wasn't because I've been looking forward to using this product for years. I still hope there is a magic bullet that makes photo scanning fast, easy, and affordable. Unfortunately this is not Pandigital Photolink. This offers speed and convenience, but you've got scanned photos that aren't even half as useful, and it misses the core of the experience. Do not buy this product.