HP Scanjet 4890 Scanner

Rob Williams · 05-24-2006, 12:49 AM

There are many scanners out there today that boast a great deal of features that would be appealing to the casual user and the professional alike. Today we are looking at the HP Scanjet 4890. It has many great features, one that most impresses me, film scanning. Want to know more? Read on!

After reading Jens review here, feel free to discuss it here!

02-12-2007, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Williams

There are many scanners out there today that boast a great deal of features that would be appealing to the casual user and the professional alike. Today we are looking at the HP Scanjet 4890. It has many great features, one that most impresses me, film scanning. Want to know more? Read on!

After reading Jens review here, feel free to discuss it here!

Thanks for this review. We had been unable to obtain help with the scanner for slides, and this reinforced our findings re some blotchy colours. On the whole it is pretty good. We are still learning, and wish the scanner had more basic instructions in usage for beginners.

04-17-2007, 06:00 PM

Does anyone know if the HP4890 can be set up so that both the lower and upper [backlight] work simultaneously - the objective is to be able to scan a 3d object with a backlight, such as a feather which would allow the backlight to shine through any translucent/transparent areas as colour and white. Any ideas anyone please?

11-26-2007, 03:25 PM

Whenever I go to scan a picture of something I get yellow lines or streaks across the pic. I have tried cleaning the glass and turning off the machine to let it cool off but so far no luck! Am I doing something wrong or is there something wrong with my scanner? Any help will be and is needed with this problem. I would enclose an example of the problem but haven't seen where I can do that. Thanks for nay help....... Smitty

Rob Williams · 11-26-2007, 03:44 PM

From a scan, it wouldn't be the glass since it's not scanning the glass, so it might be the scanner part itself. I am not familiar with scanners at all, but I'd take a look around the inside and make sure everything looks clean.

As for submitting a photo for example, only members who are logged in can do that.

05-24-2006, 12:49 AM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	HP Scanjet 4890 Scanner There are many scanners out there today that boast a great deal of features that would be appealing to the casual user and the professional alike. Today we are looking at the HP Scanjet 4890. It has many great features, one that most impresses me, film scanning. Want to know more? Read on! After reading Jens review here, feel free to discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

04-17-2007, 06:00 PM	#3
Unregistered Guest Poster Posts: n/a	Ewa Does anyone know if the HP4890 can be set up so that both the lower and upper [backlight] work simultaneously - the objective is to be able to scan a 3d object with a backlight, such as a feather which would allow the backlight to shine through any translucent/transparent areas as colour and white. Any ideas anyone please?

11-26-2007, 03:25 PM	#4
Tide #1 Guest Poster Posts: n/a	Pic problem Whenever I go to scan a picture of something I get yellow lines or streaks across the pic. I have tried cleaning the glass and turning off the machine to let it cool off but so far no luck! Am I doing something wrong or is there something wrong with my scanner? Any help will be and is needed with this problem. I would enclose an example of the problem but haven't seen where I can do that. Thanks for nay help....... Smitty

11-26-2007, 03:44 PM	#5
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	From a scan, it wouldn't be the glass since it's not scanning the glass, so it might be the scanner part itself. I am not familiar with scanners at all, but I'd take a look around the inside and make sure everything looks clean. As for submitting a photo for example, only members who are logged in can do that. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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