Everyday scanners

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Demand for flatbed color scanners exploded in 1996 and 1997, spurred by the popularity of the Internet and cheaper, high-resolution inkjet printers. Consequently, vendors continue to dramatically reduce prices on flatbed color scanners, which are fast becoming as essential a computer peripheral as printers. Buyers should select flatbed color scanners with a resolution of at least 600 by 1,200 pixels per inch (ppi). The 600 ppi resolution is more than adequate for printing, which is mostly done at 300 dpi; very high-resolution scanners are good only for extreme scaling, a rare situation. Scanners should have a bit depth of 30 bits or more to capture critical details and to produce compressible images. Scanners appropriate for professional DTP range from roughly $400 to roughly $1,400.

Keypunch Devices, Purchasing, Buyers Guide, Scanning devices, Optical scanners, Image scanners, Flatbed color scanner, Flatbed scanners, Hardware buyers' guide

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Has digital printmaking matured into the medium for a new millennium?

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Digital printmaking has attained the status of fine art, now that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Guggenheim museum and the Smithsonian have mounted exhibitions of digital prints, also known as Iris or giclee prints. Digital print technology, originally developed on the Iris 3047G inkjet printer, is also done on Encad's NovaJet Pro and Epson's Stylus 300 inkjet printers. MoMA is displaying Peter Halley's New Concepts in Printmaking 1: Peter Halley until Feb 1998, in which the artist urges visitors to color-customize his prints on a monitor and print them out on an Epson Stylus 800 inkjet printer. Museum curators were once reluctant to buy digital prints because water-based dye inks faded within two to three years; however, new ink formulations last approximately 15 to 20 years.

Computer Input-Output Eqp NEC, Methods, Usage, Product information, Exhibitions, Technology application, Art museums, Printers (Equipment), Digital electronics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, Epson America Inc., Prints, Computer art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, Epson Stylus Color (Color ink jet printer), Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Iris Graphics Iris 3047G (Color ink jet printer), ENCAD NovaJet Proe (Large format printer)

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New specs find advocates at Seybold

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The Seybold San Francisco/Publishing '97 conference has seen the launch of an important new standard for processing digital images, consisting of FlashPix and the Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP). The FlashPix standard is based on a multiple-resolution, tiled data architecure. Developed by Microsoft, Live Picture and Kodak, the open-platform FlashPix is similar to IVUE, a Mac-only format first created by Live Picture. FlashPix allows designers to alternate between a small viewing file and a bigger high-resolution file; thus, the designers can work at very high resolutions using a minimum of disk space. Live Picture's Live Picture 2.6 and OverDrive 2.0 support the FlashPix standard.

Image Processing Equip, Standards, Product introduction, Image processing equipment, Trade show report, Trade shows, Seybold Computer Publishing Conference and Exposition, 1997 AD, Live Picture Corp., Live Picture 2.6 (Image processing software), Live Picture Overdrive 2.0 (Graphics/imaging utility)

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