SEEING A FUTURE IN SCANNERS

What should the most discriminating scanner shoppers seek as top priorities? Suppliers mention capturing color with the greatest shadow detail; high-performance copydot scanning capability; and accommodation of large-format originals.

An acronym gaining particular momentum in the scanning camp is SOOM (scan once, output many); software developments are integral to feeding its strides forward. "With scanner hardware technologies maturing and optical resolution reaching the 12,000 dpi mark, most of the action now is in software to accommodate ... service providers who need to scan a high-res, high-quality RGB color file once and re-purpose that file according to their customers' design needs," confirms Global Graphics' Green.