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Tried the Kodak 460 1st (not from Amazon). One was DOA and the other one had scan lines from the 1st scan and could not be fixed. This one has worked from the start. Have scanned in over 200 pictures at my parent's house. Actually my 8 and 10 year old did most of the scanning. When scan lines appear it takes about one minute to clean the sensor. The only small issue is that there is no way for you to set the scan area. What I noticed was that it crops rectangles only which means if you are scanning the old instamatic prints that had rounded edges, the edges were cropped but it was like a 16th of an inch on each of the sides. This is a good product to scan lots of photos cheaply. Much faster than a flatbed. This plus a netbook makes a fantasitic portable scan setup that fits in a backpack. All scanners of this type will have to be cleaned frequently because the photos are going to have dust and other stuff that will get stuck on the scan head. A few tips: Scan directly to your computer and look at each picture right after it is scanned because after 75-100 photos you will have to clean the sensor because of scan lines. Better to know right away than later and having to redo a bunch of scans. To scan irregular shapped photos or fix cropping issues(sometimes cause by dark backgrounds,etc) place a white piece of paper in the plastic sheath and put the picture on top of the piece of paper. You will get a large size scan but can crop later.