Epson’s latest high-resolution flatbed/film scanner, the Perfection 4490, combines high speed, high quality and ease of use and meets the needs of most advanced amateur and many professional photographers.

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August 4, 2005: Epson’s latest high-resolution flatbed/film scanner, the Perfection 4490, combines high speed, high quality and ease of use and meets the needs of most advanced amateur and many professional photographers.
Selling for only $599, it supports up to 4800 dpi resolution and features a MatrixCCD (charge-coupled device) scanning head with micro-lens technology for producing higher colour consistency. The new model achieves a 3.4 DMax optical density, ensuring all image tones and nuances are recorded. An integrated PC centric ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and high speed USB 2.0 port plus the use of a bluish lamp for negative scanning ensure fast scanning speeds. The moving TPU (transparency unit) carriage also increases scanning speed and creates uniform scans by dispersing light more evenly. Film holders are provided for 35mm and 6 cm wide medium format films.
The Perfection 4490 Photo is supplied with a generous software bundle, which includes an improved driver with new draft mode for scanning film or reflective in professional mode for faster scanning. Digital ICE and Digital ICE Lite dust and scratch removal technology are also included, a first for scanners in this price range. It also comes with Epson’s Creativity Suite, which includes easy to use scanning applications with Epson File-Manager for viewing thumbnails to categorise and edit images. Users can also scan up to 99 images in a single scan, scan in draft mode for high speed scanning and produce sharper images through improvements to Unsharp Mask parameters. Other bundled software with the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo includes Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, Presto BizCard 4 and ABBYY FineReader Sprint 6 (Windows)/Sprint 5 (Mac).
An optional Automatic Document Feeder, with a 30 sheet capacity, allows pages to be automatically fed, scanned at up to 3 pages per minute and then ejected. Full product details can be found at www.epson.com.au. For details of stockists, phone the Epson Customer Hotline on 1300 361 054.