Epson Perfection 4490 Scanner How To Use
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The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo is a speedy midrange scanner that offers a 4800 dpi scanning resolution and a built-in transparency unit with support for 35mm slides and filmstrips. It did a respectable job of capturing details, but its default color controls resulted in scans with a slight green color cast.

The scanner is easy to set up. It connects to your Mac via USB 2.0 and ships with an installation CD containing the scanner driver and a software bundle that includes Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, as well as business card and OCR (optical character recognition) scanning utilities. The 4490 also is speedy, and even beat some FireWire scanners in the 600 dpi, 8-by-10 reflective scan test.

Description: Event Manager driver for Epson Perfection 4490 Photo This file contains the Epson Event Manager Utility v3.11.21. This utility allows you to activate the EPSON Scan Utility from the control panel of your Epson model. Note: The EPSON Scan or Epson Scan. This file contains the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo EPSON Scan Utility and Universal Binary Scanner Driver (TWAIN) v3.07A. Installation instructions: Double-clicking this file creates a disk image on your desktop. Open the disk image. Double-click the installer icon to begin the installation. Attention Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 Users. The EPSON Perfection 4490 scanner stopped working with the Mac OS Sierra update. I thought subsequent Sierra might repair the issue. Last Month As suggested on the Apple site I removed the Scanner software and reinstalled an Epson scan the site directed me to. A few Install, uninstall, reinstalls later I gave up. This document covers the step-by-step process for scanning film strips and slides with the EPSON Prefection V750 PRO scanner, using the application EPSON Scan. The EPSON Scan software is the same on Macintosh and Windows, so these instructions work for both platforms.

The scanner has buttons on the front that allow you to scan and save as a PDF document, or scan to an e-mail program or to your default printer, though I couldn’t figure out how to complete a scan without clicking through menus on the computer.

I used Adobe Photoshop CS to initiate the timed and jury test scans. The Epson Scan interface (the software that ships with the scanner) defaults into a simple, but limited, Full Auto mode. Its Home mode gives you access to additional tools to customize your scans, and the Professional mode gives you even more options such as dust removal and grain reduction when scanning transparencies. By default, even in Pro mode, Epson Scan applies an Unsharp Mask filter to sharpen the image and performs an auto exposure, though these settings are easy to turn off via the Configuration menu if you don’t like the results.

The reflective scans of our Macworld test image showed that the scanner was able to capture fine detail, but that the colors were on the green side. Turning off color management helped remove the green cast, but then the scans appeared a little flat, dark, and undersaturated.

Both Home and Professional modes feature a color restoration setting that lets the Epson Scan software try to bring back the original color to faded or damaged photos and transparencies. Though far from completely restoring color, the software did a respectable job, and performed better than Photoshop’s Auto Color feature.

Epson Perfection 4490 Scanner How To Use

The 4490 includes a transparency unit built into the lid and two holders, one that accommodates four slides or two filmstrips and one that handles medium format film. The scanner’s default settings did a better job of capturing accurate color in Transparency mode than it did scanning reflective media. You’ll want to be careful if you use the scanner’s transparency tools. Dust Removal at the medium setting erased some text from our scan. Digital ICE, the dust and scratch removal utility, did a better job of cleaning up slides.

Macworld’s buying advice

The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo is a fast, easy-to-use scanner that is capable of high-resolution scans of both reflective and transparent media. Although its colors tended toward green on reflective scans with default settings, it did well at capturing fine detail from both photos and transparencies, and did a very good job with color on slides and transparencies.

Jury Tests

Color	Good
Clarity	Very Good

Scale = Excellent, Very Good, Good, Flawed, Unacceptable

Timed Trials

8-by-10-inch photo, 600dpi scan	1:08
4-by-6-inch photo, 1,200 dpi scan	2:22
Transparency, 2,400 dpi scan	1:28

Times are in minutes:seconds.

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Specifications

Highest Optical Resolution	4800
Max Bit Depth	48-bit internal/external color; 16-bit internal/external grayscale
Weight	9.1 pounds
Dimensions (width x depth x height in inches)	10.7 x 18.7 x 4.5
Transparency Adapter	Built in
Max Scan Size (in inches)	8.5 x 11.7
Interface	USB 2.0
Included Software	Built-in Digital Ice for transparencies, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus OCR, Epson Creativity Suite, NewSoft Presto! BizCard, Epson Scan with Epson Easy Photo Fix Technology

[ James Galbraith is Macworld ’s lab director. ]

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