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Summary: Seriously Flawed
Review: *Very* ugly "banding" lines. Ordered a replacement..same thing! Determined to be defective by objective party. (I use Mac 10.3.)
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Summary: For the money, this scanner is kewl
Review: After reading some of the other reviews I had decided I did not want this scanner. I had been looking at it and trying to decide if I should get it for over a year. Then I began reading negative reports from other Amazon customers and that made me even more reluctant to buy it.
Still, In spite of the bad reports I decided to buy this scanner and I am happy I did. I got mine in just 4 days and I really like it a great deal. For the money, I am totally pleased.
It is not a $399.00 scanner but that is precisely why I bought it, I did not want an $399.00 scanner!
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Summary: Perfect Space Saver
Review: After waiting months for this to come out, and needing a new scanner for a new Imac, I thought I would get this one. I almost bought an Epson for close to the same price. I have limited space next to the Imac and thought this would be perfect. (I would have had to purchase a small table to hold a flatbed.) After reading some of the reviews here, I was almost scared to buy it. But, I thought I could always return it. I've had it over a week now and it is performing flawlessly while running with Panther. I think one of the low reviews might have an integrity issue under an older OS, but who knows. Thats why I ditched Windows after 14 years. I love the software package because it is all integrated within the Apple Dock. I've used every application with no problems. After the bulb warms up scans were fast for me, about 10 seconds. Also, because it is see-through, don't think the scanning bulb would blind you. It's encapsulated in the glass frame. Hardly noticable. I was worried about that. A slide adapter is also included. If you need to scan something big or tedious, like a book or poster, the top slides out to let you place the frame on anything you wish to scan. (Splicing software is included.) It only weighs about 2 pounds and has a long USB 2.0 cord to reach another table or the floor as shown in the manual. It is USB 2.0 only. There's also panoramic software included to make any size panoramic up to a 360. This scanner is very versatile. It is like having a piece of art standing next to my Imac. Over all, I am very satisfied.
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Summary: Horrible- don't buy this scanner!
Review: Although it looks cool...the quality of my color photos are horrible. They have the vertical bands on dark areas (that others have been complaining about) as well as tons of "dust" spots...no matter how much I clean it with a lint-free cloth. I never had these problems on my older cheap scanner (non HP). I contacted HP support and they were nice but unable to fix my problem. The best answer they could give is that the bands may be caused from "interference" from other electronics. I find it interesting that so many people are having the same problem. I also have trouble getting the photos straight since they tend to move after they are put in the scanner...and since the scanner is smooth there is no guard to rest the picture next to if you take it out of the holder. The software is not very good...does not offer multi-scanning...so it takes forever to scan a lot of pics!
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Summary: a beautiful piece of junk
Review: another reviewer said don't use this scanner for anything other than docs - mine won't even do docs consistently - more than one page is asking too much - even if the preview indicates it scanned the entire page, when you go back and check the pdf file, it is missing pieces of the page - and getting the image at all is hit or miss - I've had 8-10 scans in a row show up with nothing but a black screen - UNBELIEVABLE!!!
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Summary: Good and HP upgrades 4600 -> 4670
Review: As noted in several other reviews, the 4600 is prone to vertical banding in scans throughout (others have complained of this effect). I ran in to this problem with my 4600. I contacted HP support and they replaced my 4600 with a 4670 for free, and extended the warranty a full year! So far, the 4670 is super and free of the defects found in the 4600.
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Summary: Nice looking CRUMMY scanner
Review: Every photo we tried had speckles/dust all over them. I had no problems with the setup or banding (as others here did) but am returning the scanner because of pure quality issues
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Summary: $200 picture frame?
Review: Hardware is crap. Software is worse. Depending on original, output is fair to worthless with stripes and bands. No more business with HP.
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Summary: Form following Function: beautifully
Review: HP has a winning product with this scanner in my book. Not only is it beautiful to look at, takes up less valuable desktop real estate, but it produces beautiful scans- quickly. I needed a machine that could scan pages from books and old manuscripts without damaging them. This system fit the bill perfectly. I have additionally found a new delight in digging out old family negatives and 're-processing' them with this scanner. A great add-on, plugged it in, it was instantly recognised and performed perfectly.
I was baffled to read where other users had poor results from this scanner time wise so I decided to try it myself and see just what my own results would be. While for most of my color work I would only use 150 to 300dbi, I set the machine to 600dbi, Next I inserted a full page complex color graphic to be scanned. I set my stopwatch and pressed scan. My scan completed in just under 8 minutes, much less than the 20 to 30 minutes claimed by other reviewers. My only assumption is that these other reviewers were not using USB2 or there was some other internal glitch on their computers. Perhaps, it was just a PC thing. My system for running the test is a Macintosh G5 dual 2GHz with 2Gigs of RAM with true USB2 ports.
While the users manual could use some polish,I couldn't recommend it more highly. You need this machine!
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Summary: Great design. Unsatisfactory execution.
Review: I am a long-time HP printer and scanner user, and I really liked the design of this scanner. Besides having a knock-out appearance, I loved that you could fold it up and put it on a shelf. However, this scanner did not meet my needs and I ended up returning it. I bought it for two applications: scanning documents and converting them to text with OCR, and scanning old family slides. This is NOT the scanner to buy for either application. The cheap OCR software included with the scanner is virtually useless. My typewritten documents came out hopelessly garbled - it would have taken more time to correct the mistakes that it would have to re-type them from scratch. If you plan to use this scanner for documents, plan to buy a better OCR program to go with it. As for scanning slides, the first unit I bought had a loose connection from the scanner to the slide attachment, and I had to exchange it. The second unit worked, but the scan quality was just not what I was hoping for. I returned the HP and bought an Epson 3170 instead. It comes with a far superior OCR program, and Photoshop Elements to boot. I'm not sure the slide scanning is much, if any better. Could be I'm just asking too much from a flatbed scanner...
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