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03/23/2006, 6:10pm, EST

Thursday, March 23rd

Epson unveils new office scanner

Epson today unveiled the Epson Perfection 4490 Office scanner, designed to combine the small office/home office businesses by adding automated document scanning capabilities. Epson's scanner features an automatic document feeder that holds up to 30 sheets of paper, as well as film holders that allow for batch scanning of 35mm slides, negatives, and 2 1/4-inch film. The device can scan up to three black and white pages per minute at 300 dpi, and as fast as two full color pages per minute at 300 dpi. The scanner features "Epson Easy Photo Fix technology for photo imaging applications, providing color restoration of faded photos, slides, and negatives. Epson's Perfection 4490 Office scanner also includes built-in Digital ICE technologies designed to remove scratches and dust from negatives or slides with a single mouse click. The scanner features hardware resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi and a 3.4 Dmax rating for improved image quality and detail, and is available for $350.


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DONT BUY EPSON!!!
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03/24, 12:01am, EST
They are a dodgy company, that will screw over any and all their customers. ANYONE who has ever bought an Epson printer knows never to touch them with a stick ever again. THEY HAVE NON-EXISTENT technical support. THATS right!!!! Non existent!

Get burnt by Epson if you wish.
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Epson = bad
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03/24, 3:56pm, EST
I have an Epson scanner from the MAC OS 9 days. Epson didn't bother writting new drivers for MAC OS X, so I had to buy a driver from a 3rd party. That's bad customer service that I will not forget.
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no native intel driver
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02/06, 12:49pm, EST
Another example is missing support with native intel drivers for scanners in the twain software for several not so old Epson Perfection scanners. As a result your graphics software needs to run in rosetta mode. Extremely brilliant and hardly documented solution.
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