HP Introduces its Highest-Image-Quality Scanner to Date; 600-dpi Scanner is Easy to use, Versatile.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)--April 20, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced its highest-image-quality scanner to date: the HP ScanJet 3c color/grayscale scanner. The new ScanJet 3c scanner, priced at $1,179 (U.S.), offers double the speed performance of the ScanJet IIcx, which it replaces. The ScanJet 3c color scanner is twice as fast as the ScanJet IIcx for text and image capture when scanning at resolutions of 300 dpi or less, the typical scanning resolution for most text- and image-scanning applications. The 2,400-dots-per-inch (dpi) enhanced, 600-dpi optical ScanJet 3c scanner allows users to acquire sharp, clean photos, crisp text and finely detailed line art that is virtually free of jagged edges. The 600-dpi optical resolution and 30-bit color internal capabilities of the ScanJet 3c scanner provide increased control in maintaining original-image quality when scanning and enlarging images. This increased capability is helpful to users who need larger versions of scanned images such as photos, corporate logos or 35mm slides. The ScanJet 3c scanner's 30-bit color internal capability allows users to obtain improved shadow detail over the 24-bit ScanJet IIcx scanner. The ScanJet 3c scanner's 10-bit 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 internal capability achieves high-impact grayscale and black-and-white images by providing users with 1,024 levels of gray, more than three times the number offered by the previous product. "HP has kept the price of its color scanners the same while increasing performance and versatility," said Douglas W. McCord, general manager of HP's Greeley (Colo.) Hardcopy Division. "Our customers tell us they need to create and manage documents quickly and easily. With the ScanJet 3c scanner, we continue our goal to give users higher image quality, more versatility and increasing ease of use in a price range that makes our scanners available to mainstream business users." The new ScanJet 3c scanner comes bundled with a full-featured version of 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. 5 image-editing software with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AT-compatible PC and MicroChannel ScanJet 3c scanner versions. PHOTO-PAINT 5 enables HP ScanJet 3c scanner users to enhance and customize their scanner images quickly and easily. By scanning directly into PHOTO-PAINT, users easily can adjust and rotate image scans to ensure the best quality image. Many advanced 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. . PHOTO-PAINT 5 also adds the capability that allows users to see and print thumbnail pictures of scanned images, eliminating tedious on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. searches for images previously archived. PHOTO-PAINT 5 is Microsoft(R) OLE (object-linking and embedding) compliant, which means users 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. "The new HP color scanner, coupled with Corel PHOTO-PAINT 5, allows users to achieve the high-image quality necessary for creating and managing effective documents," said Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. , president and chief executive officer of Corel Corp. VERSATILITY HP ScanJet scanners can be used by business professionals to manage documents, capture text from printed and typeset documents and convert it into word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and software text, add photographs and charts to documents, and scan customer logos into presentations. Corporate workgroups also can use scanners to help integrate information from paper documents into their electronic workflow. The ScanJet 3c scanner comes bundled with image-editing and text-recognition software that allows office professionals to enhance documents with high-quality images and accurate, editable text. In addition, the scanner includes a new copy utility that, when used with a printer, permits users to make color or black-and-white convenience copies. The HP ScanJet Copy Utility provides users with a color and black-and-white convenience copier at their desks. One mouse click scans text and images directly to an office printer or PC-fax card through an IBM AT-compatible PC, MicroChannel or Macintosh computer. In the small or home office, this capability could eliminate the need for a personal copier and personal fax machine. With an optional 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) (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. ), users can have hands-free scanning of multiple-page documents of up to 8.5 by 14 inches. The ADF is available for the ScanJet 3c scanner for $559 (U.S.). The ScanJet 3c scanner also has an optional transparency adapter A device that allows a flatbed scanner to scan 35mm slides and other film transparencies. It provides a mechanism that shines light through the film. Today, most flatbed scanners support transparencies either with a removable tray or by adding or removing an attachment. $759 (U.S.) that enables users to scan slides and other types of transparent media Transparent materials such as 35mm slides, large transparencies and photographic negatives in which the scanner shines light through the objects to the sensors on the other side in order to record the image. Transparent media require a transparency adapter in the scanner, if available. as well as paper. The adapter accepts transparencies ranging in size from 35mm to 8.5 x 11.7 inches. The ScanJet 3c scanner's flatbed design allows scanning of 2-D objects, such as paper and fabric, and some 3-D objects, such as coins and paper clips. HP DeskScan scanning software for the ScanJet 3c scanner supports for HP ColorSmart color-rendering technology. ColorSmart makes optimal color reproduction automatic, allowing users to create color documents easily when printing on an HP color printer A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. . SOFTWARE The ScanJet 3c scanner is bundled with Corel PHOTO-PAINT 5.0 image-editing software for the Windows and MicroChannel environments and Adobe(tm) PhotoShop(tm) Limited Edition image-editing software for Macintosh computers. Image-editing software allows users to manipulate a variety of image qualities, including sharpness, color, hue and orientation. Calera Corp.'s WordScan text recognition software is also bundled with the scanner. Users receive WordScan 3.1 for use with PC or MicroChannel platforms, or WordScan 3.0 for the Macintosh. WordScan saves time because it allows the user to capture documents into word processing software without having to rekey Rekeying is the process of changing a lock's tumblers to work on a different key than the current one. Though often referred to as 'changing a lock', rekeying does not require replacement of the lock itself, but resetting the tumbler combination to fit a different key. text. WordScan text-recognition software supports HP AccuPage Technology. AccuPage boosts scanned-image quality to produce crisp, professional-quality documents quickly and economically. AccuPage extends the range of documents that users can capture and convert successfully to editable text. It retains formats, such as columns and tables, and improves the accuracy of text scanned from stained or shaded pages. WordScan's "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. Aware" feature for Windows makes it simple for users to coordinate their OCR user interface to match the interface of the Windows software office suite they are using. WordScan's user interface can match the interface of WordPerfect's Perfect Office, Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. and Lotus(R) Development Corp.'s SmartSuite. TWAIN/OLE STANDARDS The ScanJet 3c scanner supports the TWAIN open, industry-standard interface. Users save time because TWAIN allows them to remain in their TWAIN-compliant application programs, such as WordPerfect word processing software, while they scan text and images directly into their documents. When using the bundled Corel PHOTO-PAINT 5 image editor, the scanner also supports Microsoft's OLE software. OLE allows users to link and embed information, including scanned images, between Windows applications. U.S. PRICES AND AVAILABILITY The ScanJet 3c scanner is expected to be available from HP-authorized dealers on May 1, 1995. The optional 50-page ADF is $559. The transparency adapter is $759. The scanner can be used with IBM-compatible PCs, MicroChannel architectures or Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh computers. All versions come with the HP ScanJet copy utility. Scanners for all IBM and compatible PCs and MicroChannel computers will be bundled with Corel PHOTO-PAINT 5 software and Calera's WordScan 3.1 OCR software. The Macintosh version will be bundled with Calera's WordScan Plus 1.2 OCR software and Adobe PhotoShop See Photoshop. LE.3.0. THE SCANJET SCANNER FAMILY In addition to the HP ScanJet 3c color scanner announced today, HP also provides the HP ScanJet 3p grayscale scanner at $599 (U.S.). The ScanJet 3p scanner has been designed for easy installation, learning and use for business professionals. The ScanJet 3p scanner includes Calera's OCR software and integrated scanner software -- HP PictureScan, HP PicturePlace, HP PicturePlace Editor and a copy utility -- that allows users to complete most scanning functions with the click of a mouse. USER SUPPORT The ScanJet 3c and ScanJet 3p scanners come with a limited one-year warranty that includes HP Express Exchange Service (U.S. only), which provides next-day delivery of replacement scanners. HP SupportPack, available as an option, extends the HP Express Exchange Service for an additional two-year period. Free technical support is available to all HP ScanJet scanner users via 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, and HP FIRST, a fax-back service. Highly trained support staff are available five days per week to answer users' technical questions. HP is the world's leading supplier of hardcopy products that set the standard for technology, performance and reliability. HP LaserJet LaserJet is the brand name used by the American computer company Hewlett-Packard (HP) for their line of dry electrophotographic (DEP) laser printers. Technology HP LaserJets employ electro-photographic laser marking engines sourced from the Japanese company Canon. and DeskJet printers are the world's best-selling printers that range from high-speed network devices for workgroups to inexpensive desktop products for the home. HP has sold more than 30 million printers worldwide since 1984. Other market-leading HP products include DesignJet large-format printers and plotters, ScanJet scanners, OfficeJet printer-fax-copier devices 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 98,200 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows is a U.S. trademark of Microsoft Corp. 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