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The editors liked
Six-color scanning yields excellent color quality. Scans photographic prints and film. Can scan up to 16 slides at once.
Excellent scans
Especially of very saturated originals
Very nice industrial design.
The editors didn't like
Scan software is cumbersome in some ways and sometimes slow to react to a command.
Abstract: Its becoming rarer for home users to want separate printers and scanners, primarily because of the space each one uses, which is why multi-function devices are popular. Separate scanners still have their uses, though, and a standalone unit such as HP&rsqu...
Abstract: mid-range flatbed scanner: Flatbed scanners range from about 40 to several thousand pounds, so how does the technology improve as the price increases? The maximum resolution and colour depth of scans increases, facilities like transparency scanning come i...
Good colour-quality but slow speeds make the HP ScanJet G4050 a more compelling proposition for those who occasionally need high-quality scans rather than for professional or semi-professional applications. At the price, there are alternatives that ma...
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Published: 2007-05-11, Author: Richard , review by: macworld.co.uk
Good colour quality, reasonable build quality, decent support at the price for a wide range of different slide formats
Can be slow at higher resolutions, slight softening on both paper and slide scans, drivers and software need to be streamlined and simplified
Good colour-quality but slow speeds make this a more compelling proposition for those who occasionally need high-quality scans rather than for professional or semi-professional applications. At the price, there are alternatives that may not quite touc...
