HP Announces Low-cost Color Scanner; HP Now Has a Scanner for Any Office.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 1996-- Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced a low-cost color scanner offering business customers professional image quality with "point-and-shoot" simplicity. The ScanJet 4p 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. , expected to sell for about $499 ($615 U.S. list), extends the versatility of desktop computers by making it easy for even novice users to capture text and images. Once captured, the text and images can be inserted in documents, organized electronically, edited or distributed via fax or electronic mail with a simple click. "We developed the ScanJet 4p scanner based on customers' requests for an easy-to-use, high-quality color 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 scanner at a value-driven price," said Eric Blakemore, ScanJet 4p scanner product manager. "Now for around $500, customers can have HP quality and reliability behind their scanner." The ScanJet 4p scanner is a 24-bit color and 8-bit grayscale scanner that offers 1200 dots per inch (dpi) for enhanced image quality and 300 dpi optical resolution for good image quality and highly accurate scanned text. SOFTWARE AND OPTIONS The ScanJet 4p scanner comes with Visioneer PaperPort software for easy document management. The software, featuring a simple user interface, allows customers to organize, file, fax, edit and copy documents and to launch more than 100 applications with point-and-click ease. It also scans text with an integrated optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (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. ) application via Caere Omni Page Lite. The new scanner comes with HP PictureScan 2.0, which automatically scans images into documents, and HP ScanJet Copy, which provides convenience color and grayscale copying. The ScanJet 4p scanner is shipped with an image editor (Adobe PhotoShop See Photoshop. (TM) Limited Edition for the Macintosh or the new Corel PHOTO-PAINT Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor created by Corel. The current version is Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 (13). It is not sold by itself, but instead included with CorelDRAW (CorelDRAW Graphics Suite). Its main uses are image manipulation and creation of web graphics. SELECT 5.0 for Windows and MicroChannel platforms). These products enable customers to enhance and customize their scanner images quickly and easily. By scanning directly into PHOTO-PAINT SELECT, customers can adjust and rotate image scans to ensure the best-quality image. In addition, many features are included for image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . Corel PHOTO-PAINT SELECT is Microsoft(R) OLE (object-linking and embedding) compliant, which means customers can place images into any Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. that supports OLE. A 50-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) also is available. The ScanJet 4p scanner supports the TWAIN open, industry-standard interface, allowing customers to scan text and images directly into documents created with TWAIN-compliant software programs. SERVICE AND SUPPORT The ScanJet 4p scanner rounds out HP's line of office scanners. Other products in the ScanJet family include the ScanJet 4c high-quality color scanner, the ScanJet 4s personal scanner and the ScanJet 4Si network scanner. ScanJet scanners come with a limited one-year warranty with HP Express Exchange. Using Express Exchange, customers receive a replacement scanner within one business day. HP SupportPack, a plan that extends HP Express Exchange Service for an additional two-year period, also is available. Customers receive technical support at no charge for one year from HP's customer support center at (208) 323-2551. Additionally, 24-hour automated support is available to all HP ScanJet scanner owners at 1-800-333-1917 via HP FIRST, a service that provides detailed product and support information via fax, and Audio Tips, prerecorded pre·re·cord tr.v. pre·re·cord·ed, pre·re·cord·ing, pre·re·cords To record (a television program, for example) at an earlier time for later presentation or use. Adj. 1. information on commonly asked scanner questions. HP is the world's leading supplier of hardcopy products that set the standard for technology, performance and reliability. HP's market-leading products include LaserJet and DeskJet printers, DesignJet large-format printers and plotters, ScanJet scanners, OfficeJet printer-fax-copier devices, CopyJet color printer-copiers and HP FAX facsimile machines. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 105,200 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. -0- NOTE: Adobe and Adobe Photoshop are trademarks of Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Windows is a U.S. trademark of Microsoft Corp. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. -0- NOTE TO THE EDITOR: Sales information may be obtained by calling 1-800-SCANJET (722-6538). Please do NOT provide editor-contact or corporate telephone numbers to consumers. Information in this release applies specifically to products available in the United States. Product availability and specifications may vary in non-U.S. markets. If you review this item, your readers will receive the fastest response by mailing their inquiries to Hewlett-Packard Company, Direct Marketing Organization, P.O. Box 58059, MS511L-SJ, Santa Clara, Calif. 95051-8059. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Denise Keith, 360/212-3911 or Copithorne & Bellows for HP Anne Butler, 408/988-2100 |
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