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Handfuls of color and other low-cost options

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Handheld color scanners, reflective scanners and color filters for gray-scale scanners are alternatives to flat-bed scanners for the input of color images. Handheld scanners are compact, much less expensive than full-size scanners, and adequate for scanning small color images and such applications as identification photographs. Limitations include small size of scanning area, 12-bit color only provides 4,096 total color choices and most handheld units provide only 200 dots-per-inch resolution in color mode. Several handheld color scanners are very briefly described. Chinon America offers a reflective scanner, the $995 DS-3000, that employs an overhead scan head on an arm to record up to 0.75-inch-high color objects on a flat scan bed in 12-bit color. Impact Research offers a $149.99 set of three color filters and software that enable a gray-scale flatbed scanner to accept color images.

Image scanners, Low Cost, Filters, Size, Image Scanner, Color Separation

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EFI's cachet: color by choice

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Electronics for Imaging announces Cachet Color Software, an Apple Macintosh-based package to help users get high-quality color without the use of HSV. Cachet Color virtually guarantees that documents will look the same on paper as they do on screen, regardless of workspace lighting or monitor calibration. The package features Edit by Reference, a color correction simplification tool that gives on-screen references to actual printed images. Cachet Color comes with a book of images taken in a range of lighting conditions that have been corrected and stored in a database. Users correct their image by choosing a reference picture that matches the original, and then calling up the image file for comparison. The package's color controls include white and black points, exposure, color filter, highlights, contrast, shadows and midtones. Cachet Color Software costs $895.

Computer programming services, Image processing software, Product Introduction, Electronics for Imaging Inc., Cachet Color Software (Image processing software)

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Adobe expands its universe

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Adobe Systems introduces Adobe Indesign, a portable document software package that is aimed at the professional software design market. According to company representatives, the new product represents a step toward Adobe's vision of a comprehensive product family for the creation, management and exportation of documents. The product also implements Adobe's common graphics engine based on the PDF format. Although the technical attributes of this product are commendable, the question remains whether Adobe will be able to crack the 79% share of the professional publishing market currently held by QuarkXPress.

Abstract, Adobe Systems Inc., ADBE, Adobe InDesign (DTP software), Document management systems, Portable document software, Software product introduction

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