Microtek ScanMaker 4900 Flatbed Scanner

Product Description
Microtek's ScanMaker 4900 is an affordable dual-platform multimedia scanner featuring the new slim EDGE Design. It has a high 4800 x 2400-dpi optical resolution and scans at true 48-bit color depth. The ScanMaker 4900 has a Sigma-6 CCD sensor, which features six rows of sensors (instead of the usual three) for enhanced accuracy, clarity, and resolution. The scanner also features 7 Smart-Touch buttons for Scan, Copy, Email, PDF/OCR, Scan-to-Web, Setup/Cancel, and Custom. A LightLid 35 is included to let you scan 35mm slides and transparencies.

Product Description:
Microtek's ScanMaker 4900 is an affordable dual-platform multimedia scanner featuring the new slim EDGE Design. It has a high 4800 x 2400-dpi optical resolution and scans at true 48-bit color depth. The ScanMaker 4900 has a Sigma-6 CCD sensor, which features six rows of sensors (instead of the usual three) for enhanced accuracy, clarity, and resolution. The scanner also features 7 Smart-Touch buttons for Scan, Copy, Email, PDF/OCR, Scan-to-Web, Setup/Cancel, and Custom.

Average customer rating:

WARNING!!! Danger of fire!
Nifty Scanner Makes My Life Swell!
piece of junk!
Works for me!
Good Product, No Service

Microtek ScanMaker 4900 - Flatbed scanner - 8.5 in x 11.7 in - 2400 dpi x 4800 dpi - USB

Manufacturer: Microtek
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Description

Microtek's ScanMaker 4900 is an affordable dual-platform multimedia scanner featuring the new slim EDGE Design. It has a high 4800 x 2400-dpi optical resolution and scans at true 48-bit color depth. The ScanMaker 4900 has a Sigma-6 CCD sensor, which features six rows of sensors (instead of the usual three) for enhanced accuracy, clarity, and resolution. The scanner also features 7 Smart-Touch buttons for Scan, Copy, Email, PDF/OCR, Scan-to-Web, Setup/Cancel, and Custom.

Customer Reviews:

WARNING!!! Danger of fire!.......2007-06-14

My Microtek 4900 Scanner overheated for no apparent reason and started spewing a considerable amount of smoke from its inside. Luckily I caught this in time to avoid a fire, but I did inhale the toxic fumes!

A real piece of junk, cheaply built with inferior parts, poor quality control and also prone to break down in a catastrophic manner!

Do dot leave it unattended while plugged! It may set your house on fire or poison your family!

It may be good for a product liability lawyer, though!

Nifty Scanner Makes My Life Swell!.......2006-03-11

I bought this scanner several years ago, at the time, USB 2.0 scanners were not available. While I never bothered to try using the film/slide attachment, I knew it wasn't intended for serious scanning of such things...I have a film scanner for that. For the things it IS intended for, it does a bang-up job. I sure as hell couldn't find anything as good for anywhere near the money at the time.

piece of junk!.......2003-12-12

I purchased this scanner 16 months ago. I thought I would use it to scan in pictures of my son and print out Christmas cards, etc. Since I don't have as much free time as I would like I probably used it 3 times to scan in photos and 2 times to scan in documents that I needed a second copy of. I recently tried to scan in a family picture for a friend at work and the photo had horizontal lines all over the left side of the picture. I went to microtek support online and tried the two procedures they suggested in their FAQ's. When that did not work I emailed them with my problem. After 3 days I received their response. I seems that after spending $120.00 on a scanner and using it 6 times that my scanner has to be repaired. Their repair facilities are located in Southern California or Canada (since I am in Michigan that does me alot of good). Oh, and since I am beyond the 1 year warranty period I will be charged $80.00 per hour. What a joke! I would recommend never buying this product.

Works for me!.......2003-08-18

I've been using the ScanMaker 4900 for half a year on a 400 mHz Pentium II running XP. The scanner has more than lived up to expectations. The hardware seems well engineered, and the software is powerful. Low resolution scans are satisfyingly quick. At the other extreme, you can have as much color depth and pixel density you could ever hope with scan times appropriate to the accomplishment. (One operation that does really seem to slow things down is descreening.) It is unrealistic to expect an inexpensive scanner to accomplish perfect color fidelity, but our scans have done a good job of matching the originals. We haven't tried 35mm slides, partly because of the inconvenience of setting up the attachment, and partly because getting a good transparency scan from an inexpensive flatbed seems like such a reach.

The "standard" interface is appropriately simple, and the "advanced" one powerful. That power comes with a price, though, for figuring out the software logic requires an amount of effort only justified in a production setting. Microtek apparently doesn't believe in power switches, but does provide a power-saving mode that turns off the lamp after a designated time. Since we switch users a lot and often boot up only to check email, the scanner lamp is left on more often than not. The scanning software does not communicate directly with the programming of the push buttons, an inconvience shared with many other scanner brands. The result for us is that we ignore the buttons.

Judging from other reviews, quality control and user support are an issue with Microtek. We got a good one and would buy again.

Good Product, No Service.......2003-04-26

This scanner works well for me. I'm using it to scan documents and images for web design and it does the job nicely. I haven't tried the slide attachment but since that's a freebie I couldn't complain if it didn't work well. Scanning photographs is simple and the resolution is plenty.

The buttons on the front are very nice for doing things like sending a document straight to your printer, or to an e-mail. There is even a button that you can configure to perform a certain task when pressed, like turn the lamp off. THE BAD NEWS: I must press this button every time I start up my computer, unless I unplug the scanner, because the software fails to turn off the lamp after so many minutes of idle time (like it is supposed to do). If I run the software, then it works. After 10 minutes or so the lamp shuts off.

I contacted Microtek and told them all about it (It's windows XP, blah blah blah) and they said they can't replicate the problem and have a nice day.

Probably won't buy another Microtek when this lamp burns out, which might not be too far away unfortunately. A nice scanner except for that, however.

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