Customer Reviews

HP ScanJet 4400Cse Color Flatbed Scanner

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My first choice was to get a HP ScanJet 7400C, the model I use at school. However, I thought the $500 price tag was too pricy for the light scanning I do at home (OCR, photos, artwork) so I settled with the HP ScanJet 4400. I expected to see similiar quality images, but I was disappointed with the results. At first, I thought it was my LCD monitor, but my CRT monitor showed the same thing- the photo images were a bit too red and grainy. Artwork also came out fuzzy. At max resolution scan, you get a so-so image. The OCR function isn't bad though. I scanned a not-so-crisp worksheet and it was able to decipher the majority of it without a problem. The software is minimal, and there isn't a hard copy manual. It is, however, easy to setup. Bottom line, it will do just fine if you're just looking for a basic scanner (but may leave you wishing that you'd tried the similiarly priced/featured Epson 1250)

I'll probably end up taking this scanner back and trying to find another one to replace it with. Whenever I scan pictures that have a high black or dark content at anything above 300DPI, it scans two pairs of vertical stripes that are about two shades lighter than they should be. The stripes are about an inch apart from each other and about 4 inches from the edge.

I talked to HP support, which was great, but they had no solutions for me. I exchanged the scanner and the replacement had the same problem. Of course I tried all the basic things from HP, but to no availe. They are sending me an XP driver CD(since I upgraded during the time I was having the problems), to reinstall, but I don't think that will help at all and I will end up looking for another product.

I was very pleased witht he software and tech support though, too bad the hardware isn't living up to my expectations.

Hewlet Packard does a wonderful job of making photo hardware. I have their DeskJet 932C which is mind blowing, and their 4400Cse Scanner? Scan'tastic! It enlarges your photos beautifully to several times their normal size and has 48 Bit color and 1200x1200 DPI!

I bought the scanjet 4400cse scanner 4 months ago. It just quit (conviently after the 3 month warranty expired, probably built in planned obsolescence). No mercy from HP.

It performed fairly well, except the IRIS OCR was [unsatisfactory]. I bought FineReader Pro 5.0 OCR, which works wonderfully.

The photo scans are amazing. The scanner is also easy to use and set up. If you want amazing photo scans at a great price than I recomend the 4400cse.