How fast is the product and what is the significance of its speed?

• It has about the same image capture speed as most scanners in its class. However, image capture speed is not as important to non-professional users as is total time spent and the quality of the final scan. The EPSON Perfection 600 automates image corrections, it dramatically reduces the total time users spend (scantime and editing/correction time) to obtain professional results. Additionally, the EPSON 600 offers batch scanning capability.