Agfa DuoScan T1200 Named 'Best Buy' in PC World Magazine.WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1999-- April 1999 Edition of PC World Highlights DuoScan T1200 for Overall Excellence in Performance, Price, Service and Support Agfa Desktop Products Group (DTP See desktop publishing. DTP - desktop publishing ), a leading provider of award-winning digital cameras and desktop scanners, announced today that the DuoScan T1200 was awarded the title of Corporate "Best Buy" in the April 1999 issue of PC World magazine. Designed for corporate and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. environments, and featuring Agfa's patented Twin-Plate(TM) technology, the DuoScan T1200 is the entry-level model in the award-winning DuoScan family. "It is an honor to receive the title of `Best Buy' from such a well respected publication," said John Phillips John Phillips or John Philips may refer to:
DuoScan T1200 Designed to meet a variety of needs in the office environment, the DuoScan T1200 is ideal for graphic designers, service bureaus, educational institutions and corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. professionals. In addition to Agfa ColorTune and Agfa FotoLook 3.0 (powerful color management and scanner driver software), the DuoScan T1200 includes PHOTO-PAINT 8 from Corel and Caere's OmniPage LE OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. software. With a scanning bed of 8.5 by 14-inches, the DuoScan T1200 has an optical resolution of 600 by 1200 ppi, and 36-bit color depth Same as bit depth. . The DuoScan T1200 features Agfa's patented TwinPlate(TM) technology -- providing separate beds for scanning transparencies and reflective images to deliver the optimum results for each type of original. TwinPlate technology ensures better control over the optical path and results in very sharp scans and high color quality, a significant advantage over competitive scanning systems. With the T1200's optional batch slide holder kit, there is no glass between the lens and original, thus eliminating the possibility of optical distortion. Users can also prepare the transparency plate offline and prepare reflective originals while transparencies are scanning, or open the scanner while transparencies are being scanned. A key selling point of the DuoScan T1200 is its suggested price. In the U.S. the DuoScan T1200 is available at the suggested price of $699 - one of the most affordable scanners in the mid-range category. Agfa offers a ten page automatic document feeder In multifunction or all-in-one printers, fax machines, photocopiers and scanners, Automatic Document Feeder or ADF is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into the scanner, allowing the user to scan (and thereby copy, print, or fax) (ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. ) for the DuoScan T1200. In the U.S. the ADF is available for $249. About Agfa Agfa Corporation is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, a leading worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems, with annual sales of over $5 billion. Agfa-Gevaert manufactures and markets products and systems for the photographic and digital graphic communications markets, medical and technical diagnostic markets, and amateur and professional photographic markets. Agfa-Gevaert is headquartered in Europe. In the United States, Agfa Corporation maintains its headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 12,873 at the 2000 census. Out of 566 municipalities statewide, Ridgefield Park is only one of four villages in New Jersey, joining Loch Arbour, Ridgewood and South Orange. . It employs 3,500 people in locations throughout the nation. |
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