HP Scanjet 4890

By CNET Australia | August 30, 2005

Quickly scans multiple images - negatives, slides and photos - into individual files.

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hannah@impulse.net.au posted a review 4 years ago

The Good:Pretty good flatbed scanning.

The Bad:Will not work with HP's Vista update. Tech Support also have no answer. Many hours lost trying to get some value back from this purchase.

Worked well with XP but badly with Vista. HP Vista driver update doesn't enable scanning of slides/film, only flatbed. Keep away from this one if using Vista. Raymond

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amn posted a review 5 years ago

purchased specifically for film a nd negatives, totally useless

"not for negatives"

guest999 posted a comment 6 years ago

Just spent 2 days trying to scan negatives and they all turned out blurry with poor color quality. I am returning this scanner tomorrow.

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"Works fine for me."

Ron Nation posted a review 7 years ago

I am a photo hobbiest and needed a scanner for thousands of slides and photos. To begin, the slides, negatives and photos I'm scanning are all 30 to 60 years old. The results are perfectly acceptable. I can't tell if the color is off because the color may have shifted on the orignal film. Again I think that the results are fine. B&W photos are perfect. B&W negatives seem slightly contrasty.

Wihout a doubt this machine is very fast which is what I need. Have not compared it to any other machine but the results are perfectly acceptable to me.

Frankly, it's too hard to find a store where you can compare the results from different machines and I don't feel like tryng one and bringin it back. I'm satisfied with this one.

"Can this be a 4800 dpi"

otter posted a comment 7 years ago

This scanner quoates some high res figures and looks good on paper, but in reality it is mediocore at best.Flatbed scans a just acceptable, slide and film I would forget it and seeing that this is one of the reasons people will buy this it is not good. It produces some of the most blurred/fuzzy out of focus pictures I have ever seen. Colours for a 48bit scanner are only ok ish at best. Oh it is big very big by today standards so watch you desk space dissappear.

Why would you by it if you want to scan as a flatbed then there are cheaper and better out there. I f you need to scan films aswell, look at the canon range or epson at a push but leave this one on the shelf.

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"very good"

Anonymous posted a review 7 years ago

better than the rest

User Reviews / Comments HP Scanjet 4890

hannah@impulse.net.au

Rating2

"Worked well with XP but badly with Vista. HP Vista driver update doesn't enable scanning of slides/film, only flatbed. Keep away from this one if using Vista. Raymond"
amn

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"purchased specifically for film a nd negatives, totally useless"
guest999

"Just spent 2 days trying to scan negatives and they all turned out blurry with poor color quality. I am returning this scanner tomorrow."

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