Canon's DR-4580U Blends High-Speed, High Quality Scanning With Universal Feeding Ease-of-Use.Business/High Tech Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Combination Sheetfed/Flatbed Scanner Offers Efficient, Versatile Document Management Capabilities For Growing Business Needs Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CAJ CAJ Canadian Association of Journalists CAJ Christliche Arbeiterjugend (German Young Christian Workers) CAJ China Academic Journals CAJ Christian Academy in Japan CAJ Canaima, Venezuela (Airport Code) ) today expands its distinctive line of DR-Scanners with the DR-4580U, a versatile universal document scanner An optical scanner geared to office documents rather than photographs. Also called "office scanners," "enterprise scanners" and "business scanners," desktop models have automatic document feeders that can scan in the range of approximately 15 to 100 pages per minute. capable of high-speed, high-quality document scanning, with the built-in added flexibility of a flatbed unit. Clocked at 56 pages-per-minute (simplex) and 92 images-per-minute (duplex), the Canon DR-4580U scans books, fragile originals and other bound documents as easily from its flatbed as through its sheet feeder A mechanical device that feeds stacks of cut forms (letterheads, legal paper, etc.) into a printer. . Capable of producing both black and white and grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in images at resolutions from 100 to 600 dpi, the DR-4580U ensures the easy and efficient handling of a variety of document management applications. The DR-4580U joins a comprehensive line of Canon digital image filing systems that address a broad range of business needs. Current DR-Series scanners include the color DR-3080C and monochrome DR-3060, Better Buys for Business "Editor's Choice" award winners, with scanning speeds of up to 86 images-per-minute (ipm), and the high-performance, award-winning color DR-5080C and monochrome DR-5020, which offer simplex and duplex scanning at speeds up to 90 ipm. "The addition of the DR-4580U scanner to Canon's award-winning line-up demonstrates our commitment to provide a broad range of scanning solutions to meet growing customer demand," said George Morris George Morris may refer to:
Built for flawless performance as both a sheetfed and flatbed scanner A scanner that provides a flat, glass surface to hold pages of paper, books and other objects for scanning. The scan head is moved under the glass across the page. Sheet feeders are usually optionally available that allow multiple sheets to be fed automatically. , the DR-4580U features an 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. ) that accommodates up to 200 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" standard thickness paper for smooth, dependable feeding. One-pass scanning, capturing the entire image on both sides of a page simultaneously in a single pass, speeds transmission and double-feeding detection prevents image loss due to misfeeds. The Canon DR-4580U can also be set to automatically detect page length, width and thickness when scanning paper of various sizes and weights, saving operators the time and effort of sorting documents prior to scanning. A highly adaptable scanner, the Canon DR-4580U includes a platen for scanning books, other bound documents and papers too delicate for the ADF to process. From the flatbed, the DR-4580U can scan a standard letter-size document in just 1.1 seconds and documents as large as 11" x 17". For extra convenience, the ADF can be left in an upright position for easier flatbed scanning. The Canon DR-4580U also incorporates several software enhancements through the ISIS driver that comes bundled with the scanner, including a Dynamic Threshold function to optimize images. Dynamic Thresholding detects and removes background colors, and intensifies the clarity of pencil writing and light-colored text to ensure the text is clearly visible. The ISIS driver also includes such image correction tools as punch hole removal, deskew, border removal and red or green color dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human . The ISIS driver also can detect 11 types of barcodes and both ISIS and TWAIN drivers support patch code processing. The DR-4580U ISIS and TWAIN drivers work with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP and Windows NT operating systems and the DR-4580U incorporates a SCSI-II interface. The Canon DR-4580U document scanner also conforms to ENERGY STAR standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and (EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. ). The Canon DR-4580U is available immediately through authorized Canon Image Filing Systems dealers and select distributors with a U.S. suggested retail price of $8,000. Available options include an L.E.D. sensor unit for enhanced forms processing and an Imprinter that prints serial numbers and user-designated messages at any position on scanned items. The L.E.D. sensor is available at a suggested retail price of $550; the Imprinter is available at a suggested retail price of $1,420. Canon U.S.A., Inc. is an industry leader in professional and consumer imaging solutions and, through its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), is a top patent-holder of imaging technologies. The company's comprehensive product line includes networked multifunction devices; digital and analog copiers (color and black and white); printers, scanners, image filing systems, and facsimile machines; camcorders, cameras and lenses; and semiconductor, broadcast and medical equipment. Canon U.S.A., Inc. employs 12,000 people at more than 30 facilities throughout North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.030402/bb8 |
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