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Epson Perfection 4490 Photo 3200 X 6400DPI Firewire / USB 2 | 
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| Brand: Epson
Category: CE
Buy New: £123.03
New (24) from £123.03
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 6780
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.8
Dimensions (in): 18.7 x 10.7 x 4.5
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: B11B176022
Model: B11B176022
EAN: 5051749528251
ASIN: B000ASAF3E
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
You can be confident of retaining even the finest details from your originals with the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo. At 4800 x 9600dpi optical resolution and 48 bit colour, it's not only a professional colour scanner, it's also easy to use. Just four buttons control the process: Start, Copy, Scan to email and Scan to pdf. In addition to standard 35mm filmstrips and mounted slides, the built-in film Adaptor also supports medium format (up to 6 x 12cm), negative and positive film. The Epson Perfection 4490 P...
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 The Flying Dutchman April 29, 2008
Flying Dutchman
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having to find a replacement for my Epson Perfection 1670 was nor easy.
After been given various recommendations I had an online chat with Emma at Epson and followed her recommendation and decided on the 4490.
As I could not uninstall some of the programs of the 1670 error messages) I presumed that I might have trouble loading the 4490. No problem - loaded first time.
Scanning mainly original watercolours for a few artists I had no problems at all. Very similar to the l670 with many more options and good colours, using Adobe photoshop 7.
Also very fast delivery from Amazon.
Recovers old 35mm negatives superbly once you know how to use it December 20, 2007
M. Cashman (Milton Keynes, UK)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I've been using this for a week to scan 26-year-old negatives. I'm delighted with the results, particularly in terms of dust removal. There were a few hurdles to overcome:
(1) To start with I thought Digital ICE was having very little effect - the scans still looked very dusty. The answer to this is easy once you know it... when you prescan, and have (for example) 8 thumbnails, if you then apply settings (e.g. Digital ICE), they will only apply to the first thumbnail. You have to either select each thumbnail in turn and apply the settings you want to each one, or select all the thumbnails, and then apply the settings en bloc to all. I haven't seen a way to specify my typical settings as defaults. So the user interface is logical once you're used to it, but fooled me initially.
(2) I was often getting a discoloured area in the middle of the negative; solved once I realised this was a curled negative touching the glass. The holder can't hold a curled negative fully flat. Solution: put the negative in the other way up (so it curves upwards from the holder), and you can then choose a mirror-image scan. The image doesn't seem at all distorted, despite the curve on the negative.
(3) odd coloured spots on the scan, unlike the dust on the negative I'd seen earlier. I retried a few times, with canned air and even dry screenwipes to get dust off the negative, but had the spots again only slightly shifted. Then I realised that this was a speck of dust on the scanner glass - cleaned the glass and all was ok.
Speed - ok, it can take 40-60 minutes to scan 8 negatives at 2400 dpi with Digital ICE, but the results are well worth it.
My conclusion - if you want a scanner to scan negatives, make sure you get a machine with Digital ICE. The Epson 4400 has done everything I wanted once I'd worked out how to use it.
Solid all-rounder May 18, 2007
Mark Grant (London, UK)
45 out of 45 found this review helpful
Installation takes a while, including two reboots; however, other than the reboots and switching between two CDs it's automated so you can leave it to work while doing other things. Lack of a paper manual seems odd in a scanner of this price, but the documentation on the CD was enough to get scanning a few minutes later.
Document scanning is decently fast, taking less than a minute per page at 300dpi, and the 'Scan to PDF' feature is very useful. The 'Digital ICE' seems very effective at removing dust and small scratches while scanning negatives, but with it enabled at 1200dpi each negative takes several minutes to scan. That's as much down to the scanner 'warming up' before scanning every single negative as the time taken to do the scan itself; I hope that's effective at increasing the lifespan of the scanner, because otherwise I'd have thought the software should be smart enough to keep it powered up when it knows it has a dozen negatives to scan. On the plus side, the negative scanning software is very good at finding the individual negatives on a strip, so there's minimal adjustment required.
The Epson scanning software is a bit bizarre, sometimes it forgets that you have an option enabled and you have to disable and re-enable it again to make the software notice it's on. Similarly, when you scan negatives, it doesn't apply the current settings to every negative in the strip, you have to manually apply them to each one. I may have missed some configuration setting to force defaults, but I haven't found one yet.
I bought the scanner to scan in old photos, documents, etc before I emigrate so I won't need to take them with me; therefore I was slightly disappointed that it has a UK-only power supply, since most electronics these days seems to take 110V and 240V. However, as it's just a small external supply hopefully it won't be difficult to replace.
Scan quality is generally good, though scanning negatives at more than 1200dpi does seem to introduce some artifacts; however that may be due to the film itself rather than the scanner. Certainly I'd say it's probably better than the 50,000 pound scanners I used to use at work a decade go, at a tiny fraction of the price! Photo scans often seemed a little overexposed, but not enough to be problematic.
Overall though, while these issues are a little annoying at times, none of them are a reason not to buy it. Even the fairly slow negative scanning is only really a problem if you have a need to scan a lot of negatives in a short period of time, since the scanning software will happily work in the background while you're doing other things; you can start it off and come back half an hour later when it's done. It's not quite a five-star product, but it's a solid four.
When Installing March 16, 2007
F. Doyle
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
Unlike other reviewers, I did have a little difficulty installing this scanner on my PC. The solution was to turn off the anti-virus programme before installing. Once I did this, it installed very easily. I find the scanner a tidge slower than I expected when scanning slides, and the film holders are a bit flimsy to my mind. Otherwise good value, and the Epson web-site is good for FAQs etc
scanning excellence July 2, 2006
Justo (UK, London)
58 out of 60 found this review helpful
Software installed perfectly, plugged in fine, and I was off. If you are an artist looking for a scanner that will take good scans of pencilled and inked (and coloured) work to use on Photoshop or Painter then this is the right scanner. It really does quality scans.
I'm giving it a rating shy the maximum star rating as I do think it is a little pricey.
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