Setup and installation are relatively simple, so long as you follow the recommended sequence of events. Also, no provisions are supplied for creating scripts, saving images in 12-bit color, or preserving customized settings as default values. Scanning with the SprintScan is fast and easy. The PolaColor Insight interface is intuitive and offers an impressive variety of manual and automatic tools. The SprintScan took only 20.4 seconds to scan a 12.8MB slide.
Image quality is excellent and holds up even when magnified.
Colors are accurate and tonality is very good. Though the Polaroid Sprint Scan 4000 has occasional limitations, its image quality is superb. The scanner leapfrogs over the competition in price, ease of use, and most important, high-resolution scans. Polaroid SprintScan 4000. ZDNet and ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of ZD Inc. Content originally published in Ziff Davis Media publications is the copyrighted property of Ziff Davis Media.