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1. Hp Scanjet 4470c Manual

. Pros Does a reasonably good job with photographic prints. Convenience scanning for slides and strips of film.

Customizing settings is cumbersome. Bottom Line The HP Scanjet G3110 Photo Scanner combines a capable, if slow low-cost scanner for photographic prints with additional features suitable for occasional use. The HP Scanjet G3110 Photo Scanner ($99 direct) is both more and less than you might expect. It's more because it offers what sounds like a lot of capability for the price—4,800-pixel-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution and the ability to scan up to four 35mm slides at once, or one strip of 35mm film with up to five frames.

It's less because despite the specs, its film scanning is a convenience feature rather than something you'll want to use very often. Like the that it replaces in HP's line, the G3110 is a mostly garden-variety home scanner that does its best work with photographic prints, but it can scan slides and documents as well. The G3110 comes with both Twain and WIA drivers, so you can scan from nearly any Windows program with a scan command.

The Twain driver lets you easily control settings like resolution and color saturation, and it includes options for restoring color to faded photos, removing dust and scratches, and applying adaptive lighting. The last choice automatically fixes issues like backlighting, to bring out details in objects that might otherwise come out as solid black.

The color restore, dust removal, and adaptive lighting features made a significant difference on my tests, noticeably improving scan quality for flawed originals. The scratch removal feature didn't do much for my test photos, but that's par for the course with software-based scratch removal. The only scratch removal features I've ever seen work well are hardware based. Aside from the drivers, the software in the package has a distinctly home-oriented look and feel. For example, HP Photosmart Essential 3.5, which combines a photo album with a photo editor, doesn't bother with a menu across the top of the window or with anything as standard as a File Print command. Instead, if you want to print a photo, you click on an image of a printer. The other scan-related programs are HP Document Manager and the G3110 version of HP's Solution Center, which serves as a control program for starting a scan and for customizing settings.

In addition, for Windows-based computers only, the Easy Install option installs HP Smart Web Printing and the Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6 (or later). Both add-ins are also available as free downloads for anyone. The Solution Center earns points for ease of use. Pick one of four onscreen buttons—Scan Picture, Scan Film, Scan Document, or Make Copies—and the program takes you to a second screen with a list of shortcuts to choose from, each with its own predefined settings. For Scan Picture, say, the shortcuts include choices to scan a picture to either Photosmart, a file, e-mail, or your printer. You simply pick a shortcut, modify the settings as needed, and give the scan command.

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(The scanner itself also offers four scan buttons that, by default, scan to a PDF file, to e-mail, to your printer, or to a photo file.). Unfortunately, the program's approach to modifying shortcuts is less than ideal. You can modify any individual shortcut easily enough, but there's no way to make global changes. To change the default filename, for example, you'd have to change it separately for each shortcut. Worse, there's no way to get rid of the default shortcuts. Even if you never plan to use the original settings, you have to save the modified version under a different name. The original will still show up in the shortcut list, cluttering up the screen.

Hp Scanjet 4470c Manual

For users who are happy to stay with the default settings, this won't be an issue. But if you like to customize programs to taste, you'll probably find this approach more than a little annoying. As I've already suggested, the G3110 works best for scanning prints. Scan quality is easily good enough for scanning and reprinting snapshots for family and friends, and even good enough to satisfy relatively serious amateur photographers.

Easyworship bible versions. The quality isn't a match for, say, the or the Editors' Choice, but both of those scanners cost a lot more than the G3110. Scan quality for film is good enough for printing 4-by-6 snapshots, but the scans on my tests suffered from a distinct soft focus compared with scans from the Canon and Epson models at the same resolution.

One also showed obvious artifacts in the form of streaks across the image. The soft focus and artifacts are forgivable at this price, but they're a large part of what limits film scanning to a convenience feature. Scan times are on the slow side, with the total of prescan plus scan time varying from about 30 seconds to a bit over a minute for 4-by-6 photos, depending on whether or not the lamp needs to warm up. The total for 8-by-10 photos varied on my tests from about a minute to 1 minute 45 seconds. Film scanning is far slower than I'd want to deal with on a regular basis, with prescanning taking as much as 1:53, and scanning a single slide at 2,400 ppi taking 3:10. Like any scanner that lacks an automatic document feeder, the G3110 isn't particularly useful for document management or optical character recognition (OCR).

On the other hand, the Solution Center and HP Document Manager provide a limited document-management and OCR capability, including scanning directly to a searchable PDF file or to text format for editing. I wouldn't want to use these features for lots of long documents on a regular basis, but—as with the film scan feature—they could be handy for occasional use. Ultimately, the G3110 is about what you should expect for the price: a reasonably good choice for photographic prints, with some additional, limited features, most notably the ability to scan film. If you plan work with film on a regular basis, you'll be much better off investing in a more expensive product, such as the Epson Perfection V500 Photo. On the other hand, if you're primarily interested in scanning prints and want the option to scan, say, an occasional slide or a frame from a strip of negatives, the G3110 is a perfectly reasonable—if less than compelling—choice. More Scanner Reviews: • • • • • •.