Product DescriptionMicrotek's ScanMaker 4900 is an affordable dual-platform multimedia scanner featuring the new slim EDGE Design. It has a high 4800 x 2400-dpi optical resolution and scans at true 48-bit color depth. The ScanMaker 4900 has a Sigma-6 CCD sensor, which features six rows of sensors (instead of the usual three) for enhanced accuracy, clarity, and resolution. The scanner also features 7 Smart-Touch buttons for Scan, Copy, Email, PDF/OCR, Scan-to-Web, Setup/Cancel, and Custom.
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Rating: - WARNING!!! Danger of fire!
My Microtek 4900 Scanner overheated for no apparent reason and started spewing a considerable amount of smoke from its inside. Luckily I caught this in time to avoid a fire, but I did inhale the toxic fumes!
A real piece of junk, cheaply built with inferior parts, poor quality control and also prone to break down in a catastrophic manner!
Do dot leave it unattended while plugged! It may set your house on fire or poison your family!
Rating: - Nifty Scanner Makes My Life Swell!
I bought this scanner several years ago, at the time, USB 2.0 scanners were not available. While I never bothered to try using the film/slide attachment, I knew it wasn't intended for serious scanning of such things...I have a film scanner for that. For the things it IS intended for, it does a bang-up job. I sure as hell couldn't find anything as good for anywhere near the money at the time.
Rating: - piece of junk!
I purchased this scanner 16 months ago. I thought I would use it to scan in pictures of my son and print out Christmas cards, etc. Since I don't have as much free time as I would like I probably used it 3 times to scan in photos and 2 times to scan in documents that I needed a second copy of. I recently tried to scan in a family picture for a friend at work and the photo had horizontal lines all over the left side of the picture. I went to microtek support online and tried the two procedures they ... Read More
Rating: - Works for me!
I've been using the ScanMaker 4900 for half a year on a 400 mHz Pentium II running XP. The scanner has more than lived up to expectations. The hardware seems well engineered, and the software is powerful. Low resolution scans are satisfyingly quick. At the other extreme, you can have as much color depth and pixel density you could ever hope with scan times appropriate to the accomplishment. (One operation that does really seem to slow things down is descreening.) It is unrealistic to expect an ... Read More
Rating: - Good Product, No Service
This scanner works well for me. I'm using it to scan documents and images for web design and it does the job nicely. I haven't tried the slide attachment but since that's a freebie I couldn't complain if it didn't work well. Scanning photographs is simple and the resolution is plenty.
The buttons on the front are very nice for doing things like sending a document straight to your printer, or to an e-mail. There is even a button that you can configure to perform a certain task when pressed, ... Read More
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Electronics : Microtek ScanMaker 4900 - Flatbed scanner - 8.5 in x 11.7 in - 2400 dpi x 4800 dpi - USB
- WARNING!!! Danger of fire!
- Nifty Scanner Makes My Life Swell!
- Good Product, No Service