With Advanced Features

Jul 31, 2005 18:36 GMT  ·  By

Epson is introducing its newest scanners to the consumer market - the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo, Perfection 3590 Photo and Perfection 3490 Photo --each delivering its own set of unique and rich features for a variety of customers. Priced from $99 to $249, these versatile scanners offer everything a customer needs for restoring cherished photos, negatives, and slides, as well as completing other tasks and projects with ease.

These new scanner models deliver a premium value with maximum hardware resolutions of 4800 x 9600 dpi on the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo, and 3200 x 6400 dpi on the Epson Perfection 3590 Photo and Perfection 3490 Photo models. The Perfection 4490 Photo also offers Digital ICE for scratch and dust removal from negatives and slides.

These new scanners also have convenient front panel buttons that allow customers to automatically scan for copies and e-mail attachments, as well as generating Adobe PDF files.

The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo is a full-featured consumer scanner that brings some professional photography tools to the mass market. It combines hardware resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi and 3.4 Dmax, with robust, one-touch color restoration, along with dust and scratch removal capabilities. This scanner is ideal for advanced amateur photographers or photo enthusiasts and includes a convenient film holder that allows for batch scanning of 35mm slides, negatives and 2 1/4" film.

With the scanner's powerful duo of Digital ICE technology for dust and scratch removal from slides and negatives, and Epson Easy Photo Fix technology for one-touch color restoration, anyone can bring new life to faded or damaged originals. The scanner also features a secondary light source for improved scan uniformity.

The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo will be available in August for an estimated street price of $249. Automatic Document Feeder will also be available for an estimated street price of $199.

The Epson Perfection 3590 Photo is perfect for the photography enthusiast interested in digitizing and restoring stacks of negatives. This scanner offers an Automatic Film Loader built into the top of the scanner lid that enables customers to quickly view and scan multiple frames on 35mm film strips. Customers can easily capture cherished photos and negatives, and restore them using Epson Easy Photo Fix technology. In addition, the Perfection 3590 Photo offers a hardware resolution of 3200 x 6400 dpi for reproducing and enlarging images with incredible detail and accuracy.

The Epson Perfection 3590 Photo will be available in August for an estimated street price of $149. The Multi Photo and Business Card Feeder is also available for an estimated street price of $149.

All three of these new scanner models offer Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity for fast scanning of important photos, documents, slides and negatives and are compatible with most Windows and Macintosh systems.