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HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner Announced
HP Scanjet 4890 photo scanner is announced today. Featuring 4800 x 9600-dpi resolution and 48-bit colour, the HP Scanjet 4890 can scan up to sixteen 35 mm slides or 30 negative frames at once, with each scan taking less than 10 seconds at a time. The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner is available from August 1 2005 for £199 / €199.
HP Press Release
HP Introduces a High Quality Scanner for the Aspiring Photographer
The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner provides the fastest, highest quality, scanning at an affordable price, ideal for photo enthusiasts keen on archiving their pictures
TENERIFE, June 27, 2005 - HP today unveiled the new HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner, an efficient, high speed, stylish scanner designed for the photo enthusiast wanting to archive and restore all of their pictures.
The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner offers extremely high image resolution, scanning photos and documents at up to 4800 x 9600-dpi and in 48-bit colour. With an easy to use four button front panel, it can scan photos to make beautiful, true-to-original prints every time. The multi-imaging HP 4890 Photo Scanner utilises HP Real Life technologies to aid users in making their images more lifelike. HP Real Life technologies permit users to enhance the focus, contrast and sharpness of scanned digital photos so that professional quality images can be created from home.
Featuring a built-in transparent materials adapter (TMA), the product can scan up to sixteen 35 mm slides or 30 negative frames at once, with each scan taking less than 10 seconds at a time. This makes the Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner ideal for preserving old or new photographs in a digital format.
Using HP Real Life technologies the scanner can also restore old or damaged photos so users can remove dust, scratches and even restore faded colour to their images. Using HP Image Zone and Image Share software, scanned images and photos can be enhanced, saved and organised, in order to share photos with friends online or even craft photo projects and albums.
The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner is perfect for capturing essential documents and creating PDF files. Users can scan certificates, legal papers and other important records, with the same crisp, sharp text as on the original. With an adjustable, sturdy metal hinged lid, the scanner can also accommodate large bulky items such as books, thick bound files or 3D items. The sleek design of the scanner optimises desk-top space and looks at home in any environment.
The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner is both PC and Mac compatible via Hi-Speed USB. It will be available on August 1 2005, and will be priced at €199.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, HP revenue totaled $83.3 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
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#1 me moi
does it have ICE or some other way of removing dust?
12:29 pm - Saturday, July 9, 2005
#2 Michael
Now this seems a wonderful idea for the 30k negatives and transparencies we have. As with the earlier comment above however without DIGITAL ICE Technology or similar the extra workload makes it worthless to me. I would rather scan a few negatives with dust and scratches minimised by the scanner technology than lots and then have extra years of work in Photoshop. 2c
2:34 am - Sunday, July 10, 2005
#3 Eric
I've stayed away from HP cr@ptastic products ever since I had one of their previous "high-end" scanners. It had the worst drivers I've ever seen. The scanner would stop being recognized by my system. Then the uninstall for the driver was incomplete. HP actually recommended that I reinstall windows everytime I needed to reinstall the drivers. I finally found that deleting a ton of entries in the registry did the job.
The clincher was when the glass, on the scanner, developed a thick white haze. HP refused to repair it under warranty. I finally replaced my $700 HP scanner with an Epson and have been really pleased with it. I no longer buy anything HP (or Compaq).
4:33 pm - Sunday, July 10, 2005
#4 paul tay
I am extremely confused with the USB interface of HP product ... they will say it is USB2.0 high speed and then upon enquiry to their technician, it turned out the transfer speed is only USB1.1 and of course they are all USB2.0 compatitible ... then they keep on saying there is a difference between USB2.0 hi speed and USB2.0 full speed ... but even worse, they can make up their mind which one is of a higher speed ... ie, the true 480 mps for a generic USB2.0.
I further understand there is no scanner produced by HP using the generic USb2.0 Speed, all are using only USb1.0 OR 1.1 SPEED.
8:13 am - Thursday, January 19, 2006
#5 GARY POGODA
"The HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner is both PC and Mac compatible
via Hi-Speed USB."
All that means is that you can plug it into a PC or Mac USB 2.0 port
and it will run. It says nothing about at what speed it will run, which
could be high (480 Kb/s), full (12 Kb/s) or low (1.5 Kb/s) speed.
Of course, I agree that it leads you to think that the scanner runs at
high speed.
10:19 am - Thursday, January 19, 2006
#6 Eamonn Coughlan.
Hi anyone have trouble opening image zone.It worked for about a year,then cant open.I tried all the usual tricks but no joy.Eamonn.
6:51 pm - Thursday, January 17, 2008
#7 Clement Lessner
When I bought it, my HP 4890 was already missing the ribbon connector inside the lid that connects the "dongle" tail to the printed circuit board that serves the buttons on the lid. I didn't notice this error until I tried to use the buttons after the warranty expired and asked HP to send the missing part.
They wouldn't send a replacement ribbon, citing "tooling" issues. Then they had the nerve to offer a refurbished unit for nearly the same price I paid for the original!!
I am capable of installing it myself (that's how I discovered it was missing) and just want an otherwise excellent unit to do all that it's made to do.
(I called the "HP approved" repair company that HP referred me to and they said that HP keeps sending repair customers to them, even though they don't even handle HP products at ALL!!)
Does anyone know a place that sells this part?
1:16 am - Thursday, June 19, 2008
#8 Marlene Ames
I have an HP Scanjet 4800 series phot scanner. The HP Image Zone Solftware for this scanner kept crashing. Now I am trying to replace with Premier but trying removing it from my programs does not respond. Now nothing works.
5:12 pm - Saturday, December 27, 2008