New UMAX Astra 610 Scanners Shatter Price-Performance Barrier with 30-Bit Flatbed Scanners as Low as $129.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1997--UMAX Technologies, Inc., a leader in imaging and computer technologies, is announcing the new breakthrough Astra 610P and Astra 610S flatbed scanners 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. with estimated street prices of $129 and $149 respectively. The Astra 610 scanners are compact enough for the home or small business office where ease-of-use and value are critical. With UMAX' aggressive pricing, quality flatbed scanners capable of more than a billion colors are now easily affordable to the consumer and business professionals alike. The Astra 610 products have a hardware resolution of 300 x 600 dpi with single-pass scanning for speed and quality color alignment. The scanners also include a software bundle with the award-winning Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. (R) PhotoDeluxe(TM), UMAX copy utility, and Presto! PageManager(R) from NewSoft. Astra 610P Designed Specifically for the Windows User The Astra 610P uses a pass-through parallel port interface for easy installation to both PC desktop and laptop computers A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. . This "plug and play" capability makes connecting the scanner to any computer's printer/parallel port a snap, even for non-technical users. Astra 610S Offers the Greatest Flexibility for Both Mac and PC Users The Astra 610S, is both PC and Macintosh-compatible, offering a standard SCSI-II interface. For users needing uncompromised scanning speed or requiring SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. management of multiple daisy-chained peripherals, the Astra 610S delivers the most flexibility with the easiest installation. UMAX also provides an operations guide (complete with illustrations and on-line documentation) for easy set up and instructions for getting the first scan. Superior 30-bit Color Quality The Astra 610 products scan photographs, artwork Artwork may refer to:
A property of quarks and gluons that determines their strong force interaction with each other (especially the attractive and repulsive forces between them). Color charge is considered to be a form of charge, much like electric charge. Coupled Device (CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. ), the new UMAX scanners bring out the richness and preciseness of the original image. The products are capable of extending its hardware resolution from 300 x 600 dpi to a maximum interpolated resolution An enhanced resolution of a scanning device that is computed using a software algorithm. Also called the "digital resolution," it makes an image appear as if it were scanned at a higher resolution. of 4800 dpi through Ultra View Technology. Special Software Bundle The Astra 610 scanners are bundled with Adobe PhotoDeluxe PhotoDeluxe was a consumer oriented image editing software line published by Adobe Systems until July 8, 2002. At that time it was replaced by Adobe's newly launched consumer oriented image editing software, Photoshop Elements. and Presto! PageManager from NewSoft. Adobe PhotoDeluxe is a step-by-step image editor with guided activities to create screensavers, cards, calendars and more. Presto! PageManager is a powerful "drag-and-drop" software tool which allows consumers to print, copy, email, fax and optical character recognize (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. ) the scanned images and pages created. Intelligent Vista Scan -- Twain Compliant With the Astra 610P and Astra 610S, UMAX is leading the way in a new market of scanners designed for beginning scanner users by combining exceptional quality scans with ease of use. The Astra 610 products, which are fully TWAIN compliant, include Vista Scan, the UMAX award-winning scanner driver that powerfully enhances scanning image quality. UMAX Copy Utility This copy utility allows documents to be scanned directly to a printer, turning the scanner into a copy machine. Users simply place the document on the scanner, select the number and size from the screen and with a click of a button, the copy utility will automatically scan the document and send its image directly to the printer. Price and Availability The Astra 610P, for PC computers, is available immediately through UMAX' retail partners with an estimated street price of $129. The Astra 610S, for PC and Macintosh computers using a SCSI interface SCSI interface - SCSI adaptor , will begin shipping in mid November through UMAX' retail partners with an estimated street of $149. CONTACT: UMAX Technologies, Inc. Imelda Valenzuela, 510/651-4000, ext. 670 imelda_valenzuela@umax.com or A & R Partners Lisa Auslen, 415/363-0982, ext. 220 lisa_auslen@arpartners.com |
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