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Summary: Short Cables!
Review: I agree with most of the positive reviews that this scanner is fairly easy to use and adequate for amateur use. But good grief, the USB cable is about 3 feet long and the power cord maybe 4 feet, forcing me to keep the scanner on prime desktop real estate.
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Summary: Visoneer 4400 USB
Review: I am a web developer and bought this scanner a few years ago ... when I was new to the computing world. The scanner works great if...
1. You are not running Windows XP
2. You do not want advance scanning options
3. You need 42 bit color and 600 x 1200
4. You do not to scan photos to print (Photo Printer is 1200 x 1200)
5. You do not need to scan negatives or slides.If you are planning on using the scanner to archive family photos on a website, I would HIGHLY reccomend the scanner to you because of its price and very simple installation. If you are planning on using it for professional work or for printing photos, I would reccomend going a step higher for a better quality scanner. One downfall is the cords! The usb cord is built into the scanner is about 2.5 feet long. It is very hard to use unless you have a USB hub or a USB extention cable. The power cable is also very short (3 ft.). The software provided with the scanner is NOT native to windows XP and every time I plug my scanner in, my system has to go through the recognition process which is a pain. The scanner does have a TWAIN function that I use through Adobe Photoshop 7.0. It is very simple to use and very self explainatory. I would reccomend installing the drivers and then dumping all of the software that came with the scanner except the OCR program and MGI Photo Suite. So.. I would reccomend this scanner to someone who doesn't want anything expensive, but something cheap, but not to somebody who is going to be editing photos professionaly.
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Summary: Good Scanner, Good Price, but...
Review: I bought this scanner a week ago and have been pretty happy with it. I teach computer science at a small college, and my main use is to scan figures from texts and articles for lecture presentation -- the 4400 does this as well as any machine I've used. The drawback as I see it is extraneous software installed on my computer. In particular, when I installed the scanning software, some other piece of software, BMCentral (great name, guys), was also installed. BMCentral immediately tried to set itself up as an Internet server, letting who knows who do who knows what on my system. Fortunately my firewall blocked it and issued an alert right away, and BMCentral was easy to uninstall.
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Summary: JUST LOVE IT
Review: I JUST LOVE MY VISIONEER 4400 SCANNER. I SCANNED COLOR PHOTO'S AND PRINT THEM ON PHOTO PAPER AND THEY COME OUT JUST GREAT !!!!
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Summary: Broken within 2 months
Review: I purchased the visioneer 4400 scanner through a major electronics store and the sale price was a little more than the amazon regular price. So far I haven't had any complaints about the scanner. It's pretty simple to use and has a few extra features that I liked, and for being my first scanner, I think I got a good deal!
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Summary: great first time scanner
Review: I purchased the visioneer 4400 scanner through a major electronics store and the sale price was a little more than the amazon regular price. So far I haven't had any complaints about the scanner. It's pretty simple to use and has a few extra features that I liked, and for being my first scanner, I think I got a good deal!
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Summary: Never Again
Review: I spent about 2 weeks tweaking the colors and getting it just perfect and then a week later it died. The carriage ran itself to the far end and began to make a loud grinding sound. Tech support is a long distance call and has banker's hours so good luck getting through.
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Summary: Never Again
Review: I spent about 2 weeks tweaking the colors and getting it just perfect and then a week later it died. The carriage ran itself to the far end and began to make a loud grinding sound. Tech support is a long distance call and has banker's hours so good luck getting through.
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Summary: No drivers for my OS and is not going to be...
Review: I'll have to dispose it soon. It is completely unsuitable for my Linux desktop and I've given up to find its drivers. The manufacturer neither provides a driver nor disclose tech spec to let others to write it. In short words: don't buy it for whatever OS except Windoze. (Well, 1 star can be earned for at least working under MS-OSes).
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Summary: Broken within 2 months
Review: The scanning bulb went out within 2 months with very little use before it went out. Trying to obtain service from Visioneer to get authorization to return this product is short of impossible. I waited on long distance call for almost an hour and still never got through. POOR customer satisfaction indeed.
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