Media Type	Negatives, Slide, Photo
Scanner Type	Photo
Brand	Epson
Connectivity Technology	USB
Item Dimensions LxWxH	23 x 16 x 10 inches
Resolution	9600
Item Weight	19.6 Pounds
Standard Sheet Capacity	16
Optical Sensor Technology	CCD
Greyscale Depth	16 bits

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4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution, 4.0 Dmax, 48-bit color, 16-bit grayscale
Adapters for slides, film strips, medium format, and 4-by-5 film
Epson Easy Photo Fix and Digital Ice technology
Adobe Photoshop Elements, LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast SE 6
USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces, PC and Mac compatible

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From the Manufacturer

With the image quality of a dedicated film scanner, plus the flexibility of a flatbed scanner all in one affordable product, the Epson Perfection 4990 Photo delivers a total digital scanning solution. This powerful performer scans multiple slides simultaneously, as well as negatives and photos. And, with its built-in transparency unit, it accommodates film up to 8 by 10 inches.

Features:

Scan images with precision quality and detail. Get superior results with 4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution.
Get high-quality scans, even from negatives and transparencies. 48-bit color depth and up to 4.0 Dmax provide smooth gradations and intricate shadow detail.
Automatically correct an image when scanning damaged film and photos. DIGITAL ICE technology automatically corrects dust and scratches on film; plus tears, folds or creases on photos.
Scan transparencies as large as 8x10. The built-in transparency unit with moving light source can batch scan up to 24 35mm negatives. The scanner provides an illuminated scan progress indicator as part of its sleek design.
Automatically restore faded color photos. Innovative Epson Easy Photo Fix technology offers automatic color restoration and dust removal features.
Speed through every scan. The scanner includes Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) connectivity.
Easy Photo Fix Technology

Housed in a sleek outer case with an illuminated scan progress indicator, this scanner delivers intricate detail, due to an astounding 4,800 x 9,600 dpi resolution, 48-bit color depth, and 4.0 Dmax. And, it easily restores faded or damaged film and photos with Epson Easy Photo Fix and Digital Ice technology. Additional software includes Adobe Photoshop Elements, LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast SE 6, and ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR.
What's in the Box
Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanner, 8x10 transparency adapter (built into scanner lid), four film holders (35mm slides, 35mm film strips, medium format, and 4x5); 8x10 film area guide, CD-ROM with Epson installation software and reference guide, CD-ROM with Adobe Photoshop Elements, CD-ROM with LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast SE 6, USB 2.0 cable, setup poster, scanner quick guide

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Technical Details

Manufacturer

‎Epson

Brand

‎Epson

Item Weight

‎19.6 pounds

Product Dimensions

‎23 x 16 x 10 inches

Item model number

‎B11B175012

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Manufacturer Part Number

‎B11B175012

Additional Information

ASIN

B0007Y79GC

Customer Reviews

2.6 52 ratings

2.6 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#675,127 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
#1,626 in Computer Scanners

Date First Available

May 26, 2006

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Dave

"High End" Scanners Are Over Hyped

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2006

I bought the 4990 to reproduce photos and slides. To steal a line fron another review, the results are suitable for refrigerator art, but just barely. Photos made from slides are particularly terrible. I would say results from any enlargement are unsatisfactory for any purpose.

I don't blame Epsen. Their products are generally as good as their competitors, often better. I think the problem - at least for me - is that I believed the hype that high end scanners produce professional or near-professional results. This claim leads to unrealistic expectations for people who know what professional work looks like. The results are barely good enough to send copies of pictures to close family members. You certainly could not use one of these scanners in a professional endeavor, or even for serious hobby work.

It makes great copies of text, but so do scanners that cost $100. My advise is to buy a scanner for $100 to $200 for text scanning and hire a lab to do your photo and slide work.

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ZimFromIrk

Excellent in just about every way

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2007

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I've been looking for a way to scan slides and negatives and tried an Acer ScanWit a few years ago. But it was SCSI, could only scan four slides or one negative strip at a time and removing dust and scratches from the resulting images was really tedious. So I gave up pretty quickly and put the binders of negatives and slides back on the shelf.

Finally, last month I figured I'd try again. Read the reviews and settled on this scanner, mostly because a) I have a 5+ year old Epson 1640SU that I've been happy with; b) prefer Firewire over USB2 because there are no bandwidth-sharing issues (long story); 3) it claims to have Vista support.

Turns out the Vista support is kind of a an illusion: the software in the box is for XP, but I did manage to download a Vista TWAIN driver for this scanner from the Epson website. That may change in the near future, but it's a little misleading when you're expecting an out-of-the-box experience.

I never did get the SilverFast software to work on Vista and couldn't figure out from the SilverFast website if I could qualify for a free upgrade. So that leaves kind of a bad taste, but...

This scanner is wonderful, and even the Vista issues aren't grounds for removing even 1/2 a star. So far, I've scanned the 600+ slides from the 1980s (that went surprisingly fast even though it only does 8 at a time) and I'm on my first binder of negative pages and the counter is up to 915 images as I write this. I have Photoshop CS3, but I find it more convenient to scan using ACDSee, which is what I use to organize the 60GB of digital photos that these slides and negatives will be stored in. I'm scanning both 35mm slides and 35mm negatives at 3200DPI, which is equivalent to a 10mp digital camera. I am converting to low-compression JPEG (the resulting TIFFs and PNGs are absolutely huge and I didn't see much difference after converting to JPEG), and each image is about 2MB after conversion. Scans take a long time: with Digital ICE turned on, it takes about 6 minutes per slide or negative. It can scan 8 slides or 24 negatives at once, but my negatives are cut into strips of four images, so the actual rate is 16 negatives at a time, with an occasional straggler.

So I normally mount the slides/negatives in their holders and do a preview scan, which takes about 30 seconds. The Epson software nearly always frames the slides/negatives correctly. I then rotate the individual images in the preview window if necessary, check "color restoration" for slides that have faded (a great feature that does a fantastic job--I haven't had to use it on negatives, but definitely for many of my slides), then select all and check "DIGITAL ICE Technology" and "Medium unsharp mask". I've scanned many images with and without ICE and it makes a world of difference. Scans take twice as long with ICE enabled, but I don't really care since this is a long-term project and I'm not waiting for the results and it's so much faster than removing dust/scratches manually with Photoshop.

The only flaws in images I've seen are a lot of grain in some slides, which is a problem with the slide and not the scanner -- I rescanned with grain reduction turned on, which did an amazing job. A worse problem: some of my negatives are curled, and I'll occasionally get a moire rainbow pattern horizontally down the middle of the worst negatives -- usually those at the right end of the strip, the furthest from the supporting edge of the holder (I wish the holder clamped the negative between transparent panes, but it just kind of floats there). I've been able to compensate by rotating the negative 180 degrees and rescanning the worst cases, but most of the time it wasn't a great image to begin with and I didn't care and it wasn't worth the time to rescan it (I can fix it in Photoshop if I do care).

I've also scanned a few prints with outstanding results, especially in dark areas. The ICE for prints doesn't work as well as the ICE for slides (it appears to be a different technology) and I've had it mistake features in the print itself as a flaw. But I found it's safe to run it at the lowest setting as long as I inspect each scan and rescan without ICE if there's a problem.

I'm still using my old Epson 1640SU for documents (it has a sheet feeder) but I did scan a few pages with the 4990. At 300DPI or 600DPI, it's much faster than the 1640SU (actually, it's amazingly fast) and works well with Paperport. A feeder would be nice, but for the $200+ that would cost (if Epson even offered it), you could pick up a cheap scanner dedicated to office functions, or even an all-in-one printer.

So there you have it. I consider the complaints minor and see no reason that this scanner deserves anything less than five stars.

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Michael Albury

Scanner Shippen Incomplete

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2023

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Scanner was received missing photo templates for the glass, without software, and without an owners manual. The unit was poorly boxed in an ordinary cardboard box with sheets of styrofoam dumped inside.
I highly recommend that you do not purchase this unit. if I were not in the Bahamas it would have been sent back immediately.

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Douglas Henderson

Hard to believe cost/quality.

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2006

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Bought an Epson 4990 on Amazon 2 weeks ago (...)--with 3 to 5 day shipping. It arrived with little apparent abuse of the packaging and perfect product box within. The scanner is surprisingly small and light.

This is a first impression review from firing up the scanner for the first time last evening. I skipped installing Photoshop Elements, since I have both Photoshop 7 and CS on my Apple G-5. Just loaded the Epson software, then the Silverfast. Attempted to plug the Epson software into Photoshop CS, but it landed in Photoshop 7 anyway--which is fine.

The scanner can be accessed either through the separate Silverfast icon or by Epson software through import under file on Photoshop 7. Wonderful scans of 120 and 4x5 B&W negative film by either route--which together give a wide tonal range of initial scan results that fairly easily can be adjusted to look much alike. The B&W neg. setting in professional mode in the Epson software seems to capture the finer highlights in the film and Silverfast does well also.

Quality of scans--range of values and sharpness? Having until now used a Microtek 1800F, I thought I was getting satisfactory results. Bought the Epson 4990 in hopes of squeezing better scans from my 120 neg and color film. Well, the Epson scans more than match the Microtek 1800F--I compared results from identical 4x5 B&W negatives. Using autosharpening in Epson software, my first response to direct comparison of sharpness was simply....HOLY CRAP! The resolution the Epson is getting from the sharp negatives is simply remarkable--noticebly sharper than anything I've been getting using the Microtek. Both these scanners have fixed focus--but the Epson removes all doubt that the focus is on the mark.

This Epson 4990 is going to resurrect my years of accumulated 120 film that required, until now, a chemical darkroom to produce high-quality images. And I'm wondering what's going to happen when I scan 5x7 B&W negatives--which for various flaws in the glass carrier and bugs in the scanning never produced usable results in the Microtek 1800F.

Haven't attempted color work yet, so too early to rave beyond the B&W results. But last night's tests proved the worth of the scanner to me for this purpose alone.

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Nowhere Man

a disaster

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2007

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After two weeks of trying to implement e-mail instructions from Epson, this scanner still refused to work. I returned it to seller and was informed it was phased out by Epson. Good! Now no one else will suffer the frustrations of trying to get this scanner to operate.

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P. Michel

Scan epson

Reviewed in France on February 22, 2013

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Acheté pour scanner des négas 6x6, tout juste bon pour tirer en A4 mais bon, acheter un scanner dédié à 1500€, pas la peine donc à ce prix là, une affaire, il était quasi neuf !

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