The flatbed part of the scanner is fine actually, but the slide scanning unit had brought me just grief. I bought this scanner to scan my photos and slides occasionally. Well, the slide scanning unit got broken after 6 months (wouldn't move anymore),...

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We tried canon and epson scanners and found the Acer to be a superb mix. The slower speed is far outweighed by the quality of output, color matching, and resolution of negative scanning. The unit is robust, well designed and supported by good drivers...