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ADS-4900W Professional Wireless Desktop Document Scanner

The ADS-4900W professional desktop document scanner offers high-performance wired and wireless connectivity and dedicated user touchscreen. Ideal for high-volume, secure batch scanning for collaborative and complex workflows.

$1,899.95 RRP (Inc. GST)
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The ADS-4900W is a high-performance, professional desktop document scanner built for uninterrupted, high-volume scanning. It features a large 100-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), 60 pages per minute scanning capability and can scan 2-sided (duplex) documents up to 120 images per minute. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document management software ensures you’ll hit the ground running with your ADS-4900W. Kofax, NewSoft and the newly released ScanEssentials software integrate seamlessly with your scanner, setting you up for success. With convenient connectivity options, simple and intuitive set up, advanced image capture and processing and Brother’s at your side support - it makes high-volume scanning effortless.
 

Key Features

  • 100-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
  • 2-sided scanning up to 120ipm
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Optimise workflows with Kofax, NewSoft and ScanEssentials software
  • Connect and scan using USB 3.0, USB host, Wi-Fi and network
  • 10.9cm touchscreen

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  • Eco Choice Aotearoa Logo that shows this Brother product holds this certification
  • 4-Year Return-to-Base Warranty
  • 24_7 Helpdesk

Overview

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Fast and reliable

With an in-built ultrasonic multi-feed to eliminate misfeeds, the ADS-4900W has the largest sheet ADF capacity (100 sheets) and is the fastest in the range, scanning up to 60 pages per minute, or one every second. The separation switch enables very thick and thin documents, plastic cards and crumpled paper to smoothly feed through with ease.
 
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Simple and intuitive

Set up a dedicated user interface with one-touch scanning and the ability to add up to 56 shortcuts to frequently used destinations. You can also use an optional external card reader to make the scanning process even easier. Just tap the card and add your documents into the ADF to automatically and securely capture the information on the page.
 
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Advanced connectivity

With 5GHz wireless connectivity, network, USB3.0 and USB host, you can securely scan documents and share with colleagues.
 
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Advanced image capture and processing

Effortless and impressive image capture and processing - from easily referencing and locating scanned pages with the digital imprinter, to optimising image quality through the automatic vertical streaks and moiré reduction tools.

The document separation functionality also automatically detects and removes any scanned blank pages, thus reducing file sizes and document preparation time.

 
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Brother ScanEssentials

Our ScanEssentials software provides you with additional features which you can tailor to your business. For added security, you can set up passwords and protect your workflows, with the option to save your documents in a variety of formats.

The metadata function can also read barcodes or specific strings of text to easily facilitate the separation and file naming of documents.

 
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Industry recognised software

Increase post-scanning productivity with industry recognised software including Kofax and Newsoft, available as standard with device.

Industry Uses

Brother Scanners for the Office Environment

Office

Offices can benefit from scanning a wide range of business documents helping reduce costly storage space and improve business efficiencies. Cut down on insecure hard copies, meet environmental targets, achieve HR data compliance guidelines, enable simple document collaboration and improve business efficiencies.

Brother Scanners for Finance

Legal & Finance

With the Brother scanners, legal firms can significantly cut down their admin time dealing with the thousands of documents they need to collect, store and share.

Finance and insurance companies have an increasing need for paperless document management whether for compliance, internal collaboration or customer requirements. Scanning helps reduces the time and effort in long term storage and management of contracts. Brother scanners help bridge the gap between paper processes and effective digitisation.

Brother Scanners for Healthcare

Healthcare

GP surgeries, hospitals, dental practices and other medical and healthcare organisations have an ever-increasing need to digitise information both accurately and securely. However, office space is often limited particularly at reception desks and security is always a key concern.

Brother Scanners for Retail

Retail

Retailers can convert a wide range of daily transactional documents into digital assets quickly and accurately while sales dockets, orders and invoices can be scanned in the moment giving the business owner or manager peace of mind. Scans can be integrated with sales management platforms or shared to internal or external network folders, USB drives or cloud platforms.

Brother Scanners in Education

Education

Schools, colleges, universities and other offices within the education sector can improve efficiencies by scanning and automating paper based processes so they can be seamlessly integrated into their own student record and back office document systems.

Brother Scanners for the Government and Public Offices

Government

Government and other public offices can manage personal information efficiently by converting a wide range of paper documents into searchable, secure and compliant digital data archives. For this task, scanners must cater for high volumes and compliance with rigid security/data protection requirements while remaining cost effective.

Brother Scanners for the Logistics Industry

Logistics

High volumes of daily delivery notes can be easily managed when converted into digital documents, resulting in faster turnaround times for clients, greater back-office efficiency and records management compliance for disaster recovery. Robust, reliable scanning is essential.

Specification Details

Features and Specifications

Usage type Desktop
Display Colour touchscreen
Display size 10.9cm / 4.3" RTP TFT
Output file format TIFF (BW: G3/G4/LZW, Colour & Gray: JPEG/LZW), JPEG (Grayscale / Colour), (Standard) PDF, Secured PDF, Signed PDF, PDF/A-1b (BW / Grayscale / Colour)
RAM 1024 MB
Maximum daily duty cycle 9,000 Sheets
Maximum monthly duty cycle 180,000 Sheets (Maximum number of scanned pages per month can be used to compare design durability between like Brother products.)
Connectivity Wired Network, Wireless, USB
External IC Card Reader Yes
USB Host Yes
Web Connect Yes
USB interface Hi-Speed USB 3.0
Wi-Fi Direct Yes
Wired network interface Yes
Wireless network interface Yes
Dimensions without carton 301mm (W) x 236mm (H) x 247mm (D)
Weight without carton (includes toner & drum) 3.37 kg
Power consumption - ready mode 7.7 watts
Power Consumption - sleep mode 1.7 watts
Sleep Mode (Power Saving Mode) Yes
Wake up time (sleep mode to ready) 5 seconds (USB connect), 19 seconds (Wi-Fi/Wired LAN connect)
Power consumption 34 watts
Off 0.1 watts
Operating humidity 20 - 80%
Operating temperature 5 - 35°C
Wireless Certification WPA3™-Enterprise, WPA3™-Personal, Wi-Fi Protected Setup™, Wi-Fi Direct®
Sound power <62dB
AC adaptor Yes
Power supply cord Yes
User guide Yes
USB cable Yes
Quick setup guide Yes
Paper input / ADF 100-sheets
Paper output 100-sheets
Types and sizes Plain Paper, Thin Paper, Thick Paper, Thicker Paper, Recycled Paper, Business Card, Plastic Card
Weights 25-413 gsm / 0.08-0.28mm, Plastic card up to 1.32mm (with emboss), 1.10mm (without emboss)
AirPrint Scan Yes
BSI Yes
Network Security - Email SMTP-AUTH, TLS (SMTP), SSL(SMTP)
Network Security - Wireless SSL/TLS (HTTPS)
IPv4 DHCP, APIPA (Auto IP), WINS/NetBIOS, DNS Resolver, mDNS, SNMPv1/v2c/v3, ICMP, Web Services(Scan), HTTP/HTTPS server, LLMNR responder, SNTP Client, LDAP
IPv6 RA, DNS Resolver, mDNS, LLMNR responder, Web Services(Scan), SNTP Client, HTTP/HTTPS server, ICMPv6
Wi-Fi Direct™ Yes
Wired network 10Base-T/100Base-TX
Wired network security SMTP-AUTH, SSL/TLS (HTTPS, SMTP), TLS(SMTP), SNMP v3 802.1x (EAP-FAST, PEAP, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS)
Wireless network 2.4G/5G Infrastructure Mode : IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Direct : 802.11a/g/n
Wireless network security WEP 64/128 bit, WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA3-SAE (AES) *Wi-Fi Direct supports WPA2-PSK (AES) only.
Macintosh MacOS v10.14.x / 10.15.x / 11.0.x
Windows 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 Server 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016 / 2019
Supported BRAdmin Light, LRAdmin Pro4, Remote Setup, Brother Connect for iOS/Android, iPrint&Scan (Windows/Mac), ScanEssentials Standard (Windows)
2-Sided scan Yes
Mono Duplex Scanning Speed 120ipm / 60ppm (300dpi)
Scanner Driver - Mac TWAIN (Download only)
Scanner Driver - Windows TWAIN, WIA
Web Based Management Recommend Windows Internet Explorer 11.0 or later and Edge (For Windows), Safari 12.0 or later (For Mac)
Duplex Scanning Speed Colour 120ipm / 60ppm (300dpi)
Scan to Scan to e-mail server, Scan to FTP, Scan to Network, Scan to PC (Image), Scan to USB
Colour depth 24 bit
Greyscale 256 levels
Interpolated scan resolution 1200 x 1200 dpi
Optical 600 x 600 dpi
IP filter Yes
Secure function lock v3 Yes
Setting lock Yes
Optional accessories CS-A3301 – scanner carrier sheet

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