Digital BW, The Print

In quickly looking at the free viewers, it looks like they lack any
retouching tools, such as a clone tool, which I think is one of the most
useful.

Epson is advertising the Perfection 1670 "photo restoration" scanner in the
genealogy magazines.  For a list of $129 it ships with ArcSoft's Photo
Impression image editing software.  Since the low end scanners (e.g.,
Epson's 48 bit 1260) sell for $49, are the features and software of the 1670
a good deal?

Does this "photo restoration" feature (allegedly corrects colors of faded
snapshots) really do anything more than an auto levels (on each color
channel)?

Paul
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