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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | The see through window is not a gimmic!
First of all, I have a excellent Epson Perfection flat bed that I use for most document scanning, and the HP4600, though it will work for this is not it's strong point. In fact, the separate base for it is sort of a joke and not even worth using or necessary, for that matter.
The one, huge, advantage the HP 4600 has over flat beds is the ability to scan larger objects and 3d objects where you can see exactly the area you want to scan. I use mine with an inexpensive 10' USB extension cable so when I need to scan large documents, I just plug in the USB and power cable, and I walk across the room to my drafting table to scan sections of large architectural plans, or large drawings, or paintings. I can see exactly the sections I want to scan and then I can easily stitch them together in Photoshop. I usually scan at 300dpi for printing to 11"x17" paper and the HP is is pretty quick, not as fast as my EP, but fast enough to get the job done quickly and the scans are excellent, I was surprised at the quality.
I had two of these scanners at different work sites. I'm selling one right now. The only problem I had was the USB/power cord on one went bad, but HP mailed me a new one and they are inexpensive.
Great scanner for specialty scanning! | 4 | Today | Sudden failure
My scanjet had worked just fine but suddenly cannot communicate when I try to start it up. I just installed it on a new computer and get the same error. HP never follows up on my request for support. | 3 | Today | Best Designed Scanner-Questionable Software though
I've had mine since 2004 and haven't had any problem except trying to remove that Scan-to-the-Web icon from my desktop. I'm currently using it from both my XP laptop and new Vista laptop and no problems. The Vista driver is a basic, just make it work driver though and that's all I require. In all fairness to the many terrible reviews here, I've only used it as an ordinary scanner to make copies of things to print or save to a file, etc. No photo tricks or anything like that so perhaps I'm avoiding what others have complained about. It has worked well 100% of the time and my personal feeling is that, bad software or not, its the best designed scanner I've ever seen. The storage possibilities are excellent...on the desk, on a shelf...small footprint and so much more attractive than those flatbed tanks. Mine is stored on a shelf above my desk and I just either scan from the shelf or take off the front and scan on my desk...how more convenient can you get than that. I'm the exception here but I've never had a single problem with this scanner since 2004. I truly dread the day when I'll have to replace this vertical scanner with a huge, ugly flatbed monster one day. | 3 | Today | HP Trashware
I bought the HP ScanJet 4600 because I need to scan material from books. The see-through concept is perfect for teachers like me. However, the scanner warms up very slowly. The HP software is astonishingly bad. (Only install the basic driver. Skip Readiris.) The scanner only does simple black and white text scans reliably. After about a year, the hardware stopped working. (More toxic waste for the landfill.) Thank you Carly Fiorina, HP chairman, (given a going away present $21 million when canned in 2005.) I really like spending my meager salary on trashware.
| 1 | Today | Very poor software
I know a bit about scanners, I've used two of these HP see-throughs for thousands of scans, and I don't expect the software that comes with peripherals to be five-star stuff. But the software with these HP scanners is just astonishingly bad. And I don't mean the extra photo-editing software, but the basic driver stuff that you can't easily avoid. I wrestle and wrestle to get a kinda-works solution. It takes an amazing amount of fussing around, and then it doesn't do what you just told it to do. The hardware is fine, but the software is just unbelievably incompetent. A very shoddy, bait-and-switch, rip-off kind of product. Its designers should be replaced with professionals. | 3 | Today | ZERO STARS - WORST SCANNER EVER
1. It's not compatible with HP Pavilion computers, even after all their "technical support" and downloading upgrades and patches, it simply can't communicate with HP's own computer. (It works on my old Gateway computer, though poorly).
2. The scan quality is a mess, with light & dark bands across the scanned image.
3. It's especially no good for small 3d objects, which are almost entirely out of focus. This is not the case with my old scanner, also and HP, scanjet Pro, which is better in every way.
It's not just a hardware problem, as it at least scans on my old computer. But it insalled different scanning software on the new computer - from the same CD! And both computers have Windows XP. Their software engineers are simply ignorant of how to make one piece of hardware communicate with another.
HP really screwed up on this one and so far they've done nothing about it. Someone should get the axe there. | 1 | Today | Very good deal for the price
This $30 refurbished HP ScanJet 4600 has performed very well for over a year. No hardware or software problems scanning or printing. I have scanned and enlarged postage stamps with excellent results on monitor and when printed. Not perfect color matching of course, but very good for the price and my needs. | 4 | Today | Excellent
I had a Verioneer and after fighting with it I went and bought this new one and it is great. You have so many more capiblities. Excellent scan quality. | 5 | Today | Not a long life....
I bought this scanner a little over a year ago and it did great initially. I have scanned quite a few photos and the image quality was always great. Until recently. It would scan, then appear on my photo software as great and then when I would print it would have bands of about 1" running through (light, dark, light, dark....) Initially I thought it was my printer. But when I would print directly from downloaded digital photos they wouldn't appear in such a manner. I still bought another printer (From an initially great Canon to an HP8400) and the HP printer is working well, so far, but the installation of that software interfered somehow with the smooth scanning transition of it's own brand of scanner (?) At any rate - when I took the more complex route of scanning due to above mentioned software interference I still end up with the bands on the printed photos. So off to try another HP flatbed scanner and hopefully the software will mesh with it's HP printer counterpart. SIGH. Does anyone know if scanners tend to lose life after a lot of use in the manner with which I just described? | 3 | Today | I wish "0 stars" were an option!
This scanner is a piece of garbage. Literally. I had to throw it out after only 2 scans. There was some "fatal hardware error" that left me and the totally unhelpful people at HP totally mystified. Lucky for them and unlucky for me my warranty seemed to expire about 30 seconds after I bought the product. This horrible scanner made me think twice about ever buying anything from HP again. People tell me you get what you pay for and I should have expected to get a crappy scanner for 30 dollars. Maybe this is true, but I was expecting poor image quality and slow scanning, not a complete lack of scanning ability. | 1 | Today |
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