- This User's Guide is the on-screen guide to your EPSON Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. Click a topic below to get started. Follow the steps here to place your original documents, photos, film strips, or slides on the scanner. If you have a problem using your scanner or its software.
- The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo is a speedy midrange scanner that offers a 4800 dpi scanning resolution and a built-in transparency unit with support for 35mm slides and filmstrips.
VueScan is compatible with the Epson Perfection 4490 on Windows x86, Windows x64, Mac OS X and Linux.
This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms.
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It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass.
Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light.
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You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Windows x86 and Mac OS X. On Mac OS X, this is normally already installed by Software Update, so VueScan should just work.
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You need to install the Epson driver to use this scanner on Linux.
Note that Epson drivers for Windows Vista or later will usually work on Windows 10. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later will also usually work on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra).
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Epson sold this scanner in some countries as the GT-X750.