Epson 3170 Photo User Manual

COLOUR
IMAGE
SCANNER

EPSON

PERFECTION

™ 

 

3170 PHOTO

SYDNEY
3 Talavera Road
North Ryde NSW 2113
Tel: (02) 8899 3666
Fax: (02) 8899 3777

MELBOURNE
Ground Level
1155 Malvern Road
Malvern Vic 3144
Tel: (03) 8823 9200
Fax: (03) 8823 9250

BRISBANE
Level 3, Waterfront Place
1 Eagle Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Tel: (07) 3360 0219
Fax: (07) 3360 0289

PERTH
Suite 20, Level 3
1060 Hay Street
West Perth WA 6005
Tel: (08) 9480 0418
Fax: (08) 9480 0443

ADELAIDE
Level 1, Carrington House
61-63 Carrington Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel: (08) 8237 0518
Fax: (08) 8237 0519

AUCKLAND
245 Hobson Street
Auckland NZ
Tel: (09) 366 6855
Fax: (09) 366 6865

WELLINGTON
Level 6, City Tower
95 Custom House Quay
Wellington NZ
Tel: (04) 473 3494
Fax: (04) 473 4631
  

ABN 91 002 625 783 
09/03

  
www.epson.com.au 
www.epson.co.nz

458mm

117mm

EPSON PERFECTION

™ 

3170 PHOTO

Specifications

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SCANNER

The thumbnails below show the scanning patterns used to determine scanning  
speed specifications.

EPSON PERFECTION 3170 PHOTO B11B161014 

 

SCANNER TYPE 

Flatbed colour image scanner 

SUB-SCANNING METHOD 

Fixed document and moving carriage 

PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE 

 

 

6 line alternated colour CCD  

 

with On-Chip Microlens 

DOCUMENT SIZE 

216 x 297mm (A4 - Letter size)

LIGHT SOURCE 

White cold cathode fluorescent lamp

OPTICAL RESOLUTION 

3,200 x 6,400dpi with Micro Step Drive

OPTICAL DENSITY 3.4D

PIXELS/LINE 

81,600 pixels (13600 x 2 line x 3 colours)

OUTPUT RESOLUTION 

50 to 6,400, 9,600, 12,800dpi 

GRAYSCALE 

 

 

16-bit (65,536 grayscale levels) external 

 

16-bit (65,536 grayscale levels) internal 

COLOUR 

 

48-bit (281,474 billion colours) external

 

48-bit (281,474 billion colours) internal

MONOCHROME,  

        A4 300dpi: 

12 sec  1

COLOUR,

        A4 300dpi: 

12 sec  2

 Microsoft

®

 Windows

®

 98/Me/ 

 

2000 Professional/XP Home Edition/ 

 

XP Professional (pre-installed model  

 

or upgrade of Windows

®

 98/Me/ 

 

2000 Professional pre-installed model) 

 Mac 

OS

®

 8.6 to 9.x, Mac OS

®

 X 10.2.1  

 or 

later

INTERFACES 

 USB 

2.0 ++ (Type-B receptacle connector) x 1

++The functionality of the USB port(s) must be ensured by the vendor of the Host.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

TEMPERATURE 5

° to 35°C (Operating)

HUMIDITY 

10% to 80% without condensation (Operating)

VOLTAGE 

AC220 ~ 240V

FREQUENCY 

50 to 60Hz

POWER CONSUMPTION 

23W (Operating)

OPTIONS 

AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER 

B12B813342

EPSON Scan 
EPSON Smart Panel 
Adobe Photoshop Elements 
Presto! PixExpress (PDA Software Required) 
Adobe Acrobat Reader (Windows only) 
Online User Guide

System Configuration for 
Scanning speed tests

CPU: Pentium 4  2.4 GHz
RAM: 516MB
I/F: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 
OS: Windows XP Home Edition
Soft: Adobe Photoshop 7.01E

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ISO/JIS-SCID.
Reprinted by 
permission.)

Black Text
(MEMO)

•  High resolution – 3200dpi scanning
•  High speed – USB 2.0 Hi-speed interface and  
 

on-board ASIC processor

•  Advanced film scanning – Integrated Transparency  
 

Unit for 35mm slides and films

•  Total software solution – bundled with photo editing,  
 

OCR and EPSON Smart Panel software

•  Photo Restoration – substantially revive your faded photos
•  Automatic Document Feeder – optional extra

276mm