Scanner Review: HP ScanJet 4670 has great looks

Scanner Review. HP Scanjet 4670 from Hewlett Packard is unlike any scanner you've ever seen. It sits vertical on your desk and looks like a picture frame

September, 2003 -- You've seen one flat-bed scanner and you've seen them all, right? Wrong. When I first saw the new Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4670, I didn¹t even know what it was, but I knew that I wanted one. It 's unlike any scanner you've ever seen and it looks like something you'd see in a Museum of Modern Art catalog.

Most flatbed scanners resemble a copy machine in that you raise a lid to reveal a glass surface onto which you position the document to be scanned. Activate the scanner and a light tube passes beneath the glass plate and a scanned image appears on the screen. From there, you can save it to disk, print it, fax it or do whatever you want. And while you can do the same thing with anything scanned by the 4670, its differences lie in how it scans as well as its appearance.

The first thing you notice while you're trying to figure out what it is in the first place, is that the unit sits at a vertical angle on your table. In fact, the 4670 looks much like a picture frame.

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Craig Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on the Business Talk Radio network weeknights at 10PM ET. In South Florida, you can hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America show each Sunday evening at 8PM ET on WJNO 1290AM.