Theoretically. But I've also found that the latest Epson Scan is excellent and the images scanned from prints need little or no adjustment.

I first noticed it when scanning prints with the Epson 4870 and had clients compliment me on work I had done to their images when they really didn't need any. I recently purchased the Epson 10000XL and found that it was just as good when scanning oversize art or etchings.

But getting back to your question. It's like taking pictures with a digital camera. The more you can do in camera at the time of exposure, the less is needed in Photoshop and the higher quality the resulting image can be.

Ronk,

Awhile back I did a project on restoration from old prints, and just happen to have a box of them my mother left me.

Using an auto adjust function in scanner software may get a good result if all you want to do is replicate the quality of the original, but usually old prints that people want restored are faded and discolored B&W which were usually warm-toned to begin with.

So it is a good idea to actually scan them at twice the resolution you will need to print, and to scan even the B&W in RGB and at 48-bit depth to get as much information to manipulate as possible. You can effectively restore an old, faded and discolored toned B&W and make it look close to how it appeared when it was first made.

If you have a limited scanner in terms of the software driver support, even so many will at least offer 600dpi print scanning and outputting in 48-bit RGB to make a raw file you can edit and retouch in Photoshop.

The rather lengthy article I wrote on retouching and restoration is in a my eBook Digital Darkroom Resources I make available to readers of my column Digital Help in Shutterbug each month.