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This unit has some great features if you want to quickly scan tax documents. However, it is useless for getting a good-quality photo scan. I am a professional photo historian and graphic designer who scans and archives clients' photos for a living. I will only scan images as TIFFs to avoid compression artifacts. When choosing the TIFF option in the Epson 2 driver, I can see visible compression damage in the scan as if it were a lower-quality jpeg. TIFF uses lossless compression and I should not be seeing any visible artifacts. Comparison tests on both platforms and scanning high-quality original photographic prints confirm this. The TIFF option is actually scanning the file as a low-quality JPEG and then saving it as a TIFF file, which gives me a larger file but not higher quality! I called Epson about this issue and was told that this $700 scanner is made for speed, not quality, so I shouldn't expect good photo scan quality. I have a 10-year-old Epson flatbed that gives me beautiful TIFFs. For that matter, so does my $50 Canon flatbed. Epson should not be selling this as a photographic scanner.