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- A premium value for small office/home office, the Epson Perfection 4490 Office adds automated document-scanning capabilities to the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo. With 4800 x 9600 dpi resolution and an impressive 3.4 Dmax, this full-featured performer makes it easy for anyone to quickly scan photos and film or scan a stack of documents.The automatic document feeder holds up to 30 sheets (17 lb. paper, Legal, Letter, A4 or smaller), and can scan three black-and-white pages per minute at 300 dpi, or two full color pages per minute at 300 dpi. Quickly create multi-page PDF files using the Perfection 4490 Office's Scan to PDF button.Restore, repair and renew classic photos, film and transparencies for stunning color reprints and enlargements using the transparency adapter lid. Digital ICE Technologies offers built-in dust and scratch removal capabilities for film, while Epson Easy Photo Fix provides one-touch color restoration. Convenient film holders accommodate multiple 35mm slides and negatives, plus medium format film.The Epson Perfection 4490 Office offers fully automatic film scanning for increased productivity, plus two advanced scanning modes for greater control. And, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ensures fast data transfer.
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- I love the document feeder! Working splendidly and well worth the price for my home office.
- Epson 4990: A great buy for the money
- I give high ratings to this scanner.
The office scanner does come with the transparency materials that the Photo version offers and it comes with the automatic feeder. Previously I had a seven year old Epson 1640 Office.
I use the scanner for two different purposes:
Office: Where I use Paperport and Omnipage (OCR).
Art: Where I use Photoshop and In Design to scan in photos and illustrations, but black and white and color, sometimes from older, yellowed material.
This worked so well and so much better than the previous Epson I was surprised. After I played with the setting for 30 minutes I was able to scan in pictures and illustrations that were just great. The settings often eliminated the yellow backgrounds of old paper and made the flesh colors far more realistic. What took a bit of time in Photoshop now took no time at all. The colors we accurate.
It worked very quickly and well for my office use in Paperport and Omnipage. The feeder worked well and fast when scanning in black and documents at 150-200 dpi.
Unlike the old scanner, this scanner puts setting into three modes. Home, Office and Professional, but believe it or not, I just use the home mode for most of what I do. Each mode gives you several options and that is what I played with for 30 minutes. In the preview mode, you can "play" with the various settings and adjust the picture to your preference, before you do the actual scan. After a few time, I learned what settings for what kind of picture and so it does not take long. The picture quality is far superior than the Epson 1640. I was really surprised.
Epson software also comes with a "Scan Direct" button, where you can scan directly into any program or your printer.
Legal size documents do have to use the Automatic Document Feeder. The flatbed scanning area is about 12 inches so most of my Legal documents would still fit there, but an extra inch would have been nice. It is a bit louder than I would like and scanner is never instant, especially when you are scanning in at high dpi, but those would not be serious considerations for me in buying the unit.
My only serious disappointment is that NO instruction manual is included, nor is a PDF one put on the disc. Instead, you most have internet access to web style pages, that you cannot even print out as a book. I think I was at an advantage having the similar previous one, but this was a disappointment.
- My wife has scanned many documents and photographic prints, and this ADF scanner works extremely well. She is pleased, and the results are excellent. It has been easy to use for both photo prints and documents, with the photo problem correction software supplied. It works well with Omni Page Pro 15.
- The "Office Scanner" is basically the same scanner as the 4490 NON-Office scanner. The difference and extra price is mainly for the document feeder. It's basically $150 add-on at the time I write this. The scanner itself is great. I mainly scan documents and Photos but not negatives. I had an HP scanner which was about 4 years old and this blows it away in speed, accuracy and quality. With the high DPI settings you can get great quality from this scanner. With the amount of documents I do the feeder is worth it for me, but unless you need the legal size scanned or scan stacks of paper you can save money and get the non-office model. Switching between the feeder and the regular top is incredibly simple. The feeder itself works OK, a very occassional jam and the quality is not always equal to when you don't use the feeder for various reasons. I at first got lines from the feeder and had to adjust the DPI to get rid of it for example.
Overall, I love the scanner, quick, powerful, high DPI, handles photos and text extremely well. Scan straight to PDF works fabulous.
- Up until a few days ago, I had a six-year-old HP all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/fax. I had recently decided to scan all of our older photographs so we could find them and share them as we do the pictures taken with our digital camera, but that scanner made it a very tedious process, with fairly poor quality results. Fortunately, that printer died a couple of weeks ago. Rather than replace it with another all-in-one that might also produce less-than-stellar results, I replaced it with an Epson photo printer and the Epson Perfection 4400 scanner.
Installation was simple and easy. As a test, I printed a picture taken with our digital camera on the new printer. Then I scanned it with the new scanner, using fully automatic mode. It recognized that there was a color picture, cropped it, and sent the results to Photoshop. I didn't have to make any option selections at all. And my husband can't tell the difference between the original digital file and the resulting digital one.
Scanning three or four pictures at a time is also a breeze. Before, I had to use Photoshop's feature to separate the scanned pictures into multiple files. This scanner recognizes that there are multiple color photos and automatically sends a separate file to Photoshop for each of them. The only time this didn't work was when we didn't leave any whitespace between the photos.
Negatives were also easy to scan, even though I'd never done that before. Loading them into the negative holder was a little tricky the first time. This is primarily because of the way the film processor I used in 1997 packaged negatives, but it was still a little frustrating. Two strips of negatives can be scanned at a time, up to 12 pictures at a time. The scanner sends individual files to Photoshop for each negative. At least half the time, the quality of the copy produced from the scan was better than the lab-printed picture.
PROS:
* Quality of photo scans
* Scan negatives / slides
* Ease of use
* Integration with industry-leading apps (Photoshop)
CONS:
* Footprint is quite a bit bigger than I'm used to
* Negative holder is a little tricky
This is marketed as a photo scanner, and that's how I use it. The only text scanning I do is copies of invoices / receipts to attach in Quicken. Since these are actually pictures, I can't comment on any suitability for or compatibility with OCR applications.
I also can't comment on the manual, since I haven't read it yet.
- Excellent Scanner, but Mac Software Needs Polish
- I purchased this scanner to import glossy photos into my Mac Pro. So far, it has been a pleasure. Scan times are short at typical resolutions. The scanner really shines when the auto feeder is used; it can take a multipage document and render it into a PDF in no time at all. Unfortunately, if you use this scanner with a Mac, you will be somewhat disappointed with the software. Yes, the software is a Universal Binary program that works well in Leopard, but it lacks quite a bit of polish. I found myself using Photoshop CS3, Mac OS X's built-in Image Capture, and even third-party scanning software to achieve that "Mac-like" simplicity and elegance when interfacing between my Mac and this scanner. I hope Epson will dedicate more resources to updating their Mac software; it's the only missing link in this package as far as I am concerned.
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- This machine is NOT compatible with Windows Vista machines regardless what the description says. Epson tech support was horrible. The drivers will NOT work with a Vista machine.
- I needed to find a scanner for a gift with two requirements. 1-that it have a flatbed - so that bound material could be scanned. 2-It needed to accomodate legal sized documents. I shopped at local stores but few scanners met both requirements. While in Best Buy, the sales person pointed me to an online site and recommeded that I purchase the Scanner perfection 4490. The specifications inidicated that legal sized documents are supported. When I received the scanner I realized that only the sheet-feeder can accomodate legal sized documents. I could have purchased many cheaper scanners that have feed only support of legal documents. It would have been some consolation if the scanner was noticably faster than the cheaper models. It appears to be every bit as slow as any of the cheaper models.
- I needed to find a scanner for a gift with two requirements. 1-that it have a flatbed - so that bound material could be scanned. 2-It needed to accomodate legal sized documents. I shopped at local stores but few scanners met both requirements. While in Best Buy, the sales person pointed me to an online site and recommeded that I purchase the Scanner perfection 4490. The specifications inidicated that legal sized documents are supported. When I received the scanner I realized that only the sheet-feeder can accomodate legal sized documents. I could have purchased many cheaper scanners that have feed only support of legal documents. It would have been some consolation if the scanner was noticably faster than the cheaper models. It appears to be every bit as slow as any of the cheaper models.
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- Excellent Scanner, but Mac Software Needs Polish
- I purchased this scanner to import glossy photos into my Mac Pro. So far, it has been a pleasure. Scan times are short at typical resolutions. The scanner really shines when the auto feeder is used; it can take a multipage document and render it into a PDF in no time at all. Unfortunately, if you use this scanner with a Mac, you will be somewhat disappointed with the software. Yes, the software is a Universal Binary program that works well in Leopard, but it lacks quite a bit of polish. I found myself using Photoshop CS3, Mac OS X's built-in Image Capture, and even third-party scanning software to achieve that "Mac-like" simplicity and elegance when interfacing between my Mac and this scanner. I hope Epson will dedicate more resources to updating their Mac software; it's the only missing link in this package as far as I am concerned.
- I love the document feeder! Working splendidly and well worth the price for my home office.
- This machine is NOT compatible with Windows Vista machines regardless what the description says. Epson tech support was horrible. The drivers will NOT work with a Vista machine.
- Epson 4990: A great buy for the money
- I give high ratings to this scanner.
The office scanner does come with the transparency materials that the Photo version offers and it comes with the automatic feeder. Previously I had a seven year old Epson 1640 Office.
I use the scanner for two different purposes:
Office: Where I use Paperport and Omnipage (OCR).
Art: Where I use Photoshop and In Design to scan in photos and illustrations, but black and white and color, sometimes from older, yellowed material.
This worked so well and so much better than the previous Epson I was surprised. After I played with the setting for 30 minutes I was able to scan in pictures and illustrations that were just great. The settings often eliminated the yellow backgrounds of old paper and made the flesh colors far more realistic. What took a bit of time in Photoshop now took no time at all. The colors we accurate.
It worked very quickly and well for my office use in Paperport and Omnipage. The feeder worked well and fast when scanning in black and documents at 150-200 dpi.
Unlike the old scanner, this scanner puts setting into three modes. Home, Office and Professional, but believe it or not, I just use the home mode for most of what I do. Each mode gives you several options and that is what I played with for 30 minutes. In the preview mode, you can "play" with the various settings and adjust the picture to your preference, before you do the actual scan. After a few time, I learned what settings for what kind of picture and so it does not take long. The picture quality is far superior than the Epson 1640. I was really surprised.
Epson software also comes with a "Scan Direct" button, where you can scan directly into any program or your printer.
Legal size documents do have to use the Automatic Document Feeder. The flatbed scanning area is about 12 inches so most of my Legal documents would still fit there, but an extra inch would have been nice. It is a bit louder than I would like and scanner is never instant, especially when you are scanning in at high dpi, but those would not be serious considerations for me in buying the unit.
My only serious disappointment is that NO instruction manual is included, nor is a PDF one put on the disc. Instead, you most have internet access to web style pages, that you cannot even print out as a book. I think I was at an advantage having the similar previous one, but this was a disappointment.
- My wife has scanned many documents and photographic prints, and this ADF scanner works extremely well. She is pleased, and the results are excellent. It has been easy to use for both photo prints and documents, with the photo problem correction software supplied. It works well with Omni Page Pro 15.
- The "Office Scanner" is basically the same scanner as the 4490 NON-Office scanner. The difference and extra price is mainly for the document feeder. It's basically $150 add-on at the time I write this. The scanner itself is great. I mainly scan documents and Photos but not negatives. I had an HP scanner which was about 4 years old and this blows it away in speed, accuracy and quality. With the high DPI settings you can get great quality from this scanner. With the amount of documents I do the feeder is worth it for me, but unless you need the legal size scanned or scan stacks of paper you can save money and get the non-office model. Switching between the feeder and the regular top is incredibly simple. The feeder itself works OK, a very occassional jam and the quality is not always equal to when you don't use the feeder for various reasons. I at first got lines from the feeder and had to adjust the DPI to get rid of it for example.
Overall, I love the scanner, quick, powerful, high DPI, handles photos and text extremely well. Scan straight to PDF works fabulous.
- Up until a few days ago, I had a six-year-old HP all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/fax. I had recently decided to scan all of our older photographs so we could find them and share them as we do the pictures taken with our digital camera, but that scanner made it a very tedious process, with fairly poor quality results. Fortunately, that printer died a couple of weeks ago. Rather than replace it with another all-in-one that might also produce less-than-stellar results, I replaced it with an Epson photo printer and the Epson Perfection 4400 scanner.
Installation was simple and easy. As a test, I printed a picture taken with our digital camera on the new printer. Then I scanned it with the new scanner, using fully automatic mode. It recognized that there was a color picture, cropped it, and sent the results to Photoshop. I didn't have to make any option selections at all. And my husband can't tell the difference between the original digital file and the resulting digital one.
Scanning three or four pictures at a time is also a breeze. Before, I had to use Photoshop's feature to separate the scanned pictures into multiple files. This scanner recognizes that there are multiple color photos and automatically sends a separate file to Photoshop for each of them. The only time this didn't work was when we didn't leave any whitespace between the photos.
Negatives were also easy to scan, even though I'd never done that before. Loading them into the negative holder was a little tricky the first time. This is primarily because of the way the film processor I used in 1997 packaged negatives, but it was still a little frustrating. Two strips of negatives can be scanned at a time, up to 12 pictures at a time. The scanner sends individual files to Photoshop for each negative. At least half the time, the quality of the copy produced from the scan was better than the lab-printed picture.
PROS:
* Quality of photo scans
* Scan negatives / slides
* Ease of use
* Integration with industry-leading apps (Photoshop)
CONS:
* Footprint is quite a bit bigger than I'm used to
* Negative holder is a little tricky
This is marketed as a photo scanner, and that's how I use it. The only text scanning I do is copies of invoices / receipts to attach in Quicken. Since these are actually pictures, I can't comment on any suitability for or compatibility with OCR applications.
I also can't comment on the manual, since I haven't read it yet.
- I needed to find a scanner for a gift with two requirements. 1-that it have a flatbed - so that bound material could be scanned. 2-It needed to accomodate legal sized documents. I shopped at local stores but few scanners met both requirements. While in Best Buy, the sales person pointed me to an online site and recommeded that I purchase the Scanner perfection 4490. The specifications inidicated that legal sized documents are supported. When I received the scanner I realized that only the sheet-feeder can accomodate legal sized documents. I could have purchased many cheaper scanners that have feed only support of legal documents. It would have been some consolation if the scanner was noticably faster than the cheaper models. It appears to be every bit as slow as any of the cheaper models.
- I needed to find a scanner for a gift with two requirements. 1-that it have a flatbed - so that bound material could be scanned. 2-It needed to accomodate legal sized documents. I shopped at local stores but few scanners met both requirements. While in Best Buy, the sales person pointed me to an online site and recommeded that I purchase the Scanner perfection 4490. The specifications inidicated that legal sized documents are supported. When I received the scanner I realized that only the sheet-feeder can accomodate legal sized documents. I could have purchased many cheaper scanners that have feed only support of legal documents. It would have been some consolation if the scanner was noticably faster than the cheaper models. It appears to be every bit as slow as any of the cheaper models.
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