Epson is an undisputed giant in the manufacture of scanners and printers in the world. Its products which are renowned for their quality can be vouched for.
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner has amazing features. It is a Flatbed type of efficient film scanner. It is a desktop model that gives superior images with mind-blowing clarity. Its horizontal resolution is 4800 dpi and the maximum vertical resolution is 9600 dpi. Its 48-bit colour depth and 4.0 Dmax with maximum grey depth at 16-bit or 64k grey levels are also significant. The type of interface used is the FireWire IEEE, USB 1.1 and Hi-speed USB 2.0 which conforms to the international industry standards and gives a super fast output.
One of its most outstanding features is the digital image correction (digital ICE) that enables the scanner to eliminate automatically, creases, folds or any damage from the matter to be scanned, to give a fresh, sharp, crystal clear version of it. It is also integrated with the Epson Easy Photo Fix technology that refreshes the colours used.
Another noteworthy feature of this scanner is that it is compatible with both, the PC and the Mac. The operating systems that support this scanner are Apple Mac OS X 10.2 and Microsoft Windows 98.
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner supports a maximum media size of A4, that is, 210 mm x 297 mm. The types of media supported are film, plain paper, slides and transparencies, which have to be fed manually. It has the ability to scan many sides all at once. In fact it can scan as many as twenty four 35 mm negatives, simultaneously. For this purpose it uses a Xenon gas fluorescent lamp. An indicator is also incorporated in the scanner to denote the scan status.
The Charge-coupled device (CCD) which is the type of scanning format used in the device uses digital imaging to produce images in either of three formats, point scanning, line scanning and area scanning. All these formats are used in digital photography and scanning.
The scanner has a height of 13.4 cm, a width of 30.4 cm, a depth of 47.6 cm and a weight of 6.7 kg.
For modifying scanned images, Epson provides a software bundle with Epson Scan, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR, LaserSoft Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner Imaging, SilverFast SE 6 and Epson Copy Utility.
With such impressive functions and an affordable price, the Epson Perfection 4990 Photo Scanner makes a dream purchase.
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