Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Includes: Photoshop Elements, ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus OCR, NewSoft Presto! BizCard, & more. Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner - This flatbed scanner features Digital ICE technology, which gives you built-in dust & scratch removal for film, and Epson Easy Photo Fix, that provides one-touch color restoration. Saving you a lot editing time after you've finished scanning. To accommodate more media, a built-in transparency unit is featured, with… Product details and pricing info |
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119 Customer Reviews Posted
- did not work correctly
- Did not work. Called support who kept me on the phone for almost 30 monutes and then agreed that it did not work. They wanted me to take it to a repair place. I told them that I just took it out of the box and I wanted to returen it. The place that I bought it from took it back and gave me a full refund but it did cost me $11.50 to return it.
- 2008-08-24, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A total crapshoot, apparently.
- I owned this machine for all of 90 minutes, and I'm sending it back.
I didn't want that to be the case - the glowing reviews are *really* glowing - but it really does seem like you stand about a 1-3 chance of this just being a total piece of garbage if you buy it. And mine was a total piece of garbage.
My purpose was to scan 120 negatives. I got all of _one single scan_ before it gave me nothing more than images of noise and static that in no way resembled my slides. The 'instructions' are worthless (basically a glorified _poster_ that does nothing but illustrate the process right up to your first attempt to scan an image, then NOTHING -- no troubleshooting or explaining ANY of the features or software windows at ALL), the online manual is mediocre at best, and after re-reading the other reviews here, I didn't even try the customer service. Scans take ridiculous amount of time; 6 attempts took me more than an hour. I was lucky in that at least I did not have one of the noisy machines, I guess.
And for the record, my husband downloaded the software for me, and being a software programmer with an MA, I'm assuming he did it correctly.
Now, I get that sometimes there are duds, and that sometimes it takes a bit to learn how to use a new piece of equiptment. But I'd like to at least be GIVEN directions to start with, AND don't appreciate having to hard core troubleshoot within 5 minutes of starting to use something.
Seriously and completely disappointed. DO. NOT. BUY. Or if you do, consider yourself warned about your chances/luck. Probably better off gambling in Vegas. Blech. - 2008-08-17, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Right scanner for my purpose
- I wanted a reasonably priced scanner with the ability to scan slides and old family photos in order to share them with family members and friends. This Epson scanner met my needs in terms of price and functionality. It is working well.
- 2008-08-16, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Love It
- This product was given as a gift. Though it is easy to setup and get it started. Does wonderful job on the slides and negatives.Designed for easy use and does a great job with the photo's even when they are very old pictures. Would recommend to anyone.
- 2008-07-20, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good bye, ALBUMS!
- Great product for my MAC. It was time to take care of all the aging photo albums and this is a great tool. An individual photo takes about 40 seconds to scan, but if you put up to 5 photos on and separate them, it knows that they are separate photos and does them all in same time. Has great buttons to renovate color etc.
- 2008-07-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
