UMAX ASTRA 4450 SCANNER NOW AVAILABLE.UMAX Technologies, Inc., a provider of imaging technologies, recently announced the availability of its Astra 4450 high-resolution color scanner with built-in transparency/negative scanning cover. At $129, the Astra 4450 48-bit color scanner features 1200 x 2400 dpi resolution, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. connectivity and programmable push-button (electronics) push-button - A roughly fingertip-sized plastic cover attached to a spring-loaded, normally-open switch, which, when pressed, closes the switch. Typical examples are the keys on a computer or calculator keyboard and mouse buttons. controls, affordable for the consumer 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. markets and scalable to meet the needs of power users. Like its companion scanner, the Astra 4400 announced in July, the transparency-capable Astra 4450 includes such advanced features as push-button copying and direct scanning to fax or e-mail, and easy 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. scanning for direct editing of Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. spreadsheets and Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. documents. The built-in Universal Transparency Cover (UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. ) allows scanning of color slides and negatives up to 4" x 5". "The Astra 4450 is designed to provide a one-touch, simplified scanning experience for the customer," said Felicia Chappell, product marketing manager of UMAX. "It gives a wide range of users the high quality, versatility and sharp colors that many professionals get from much higher priced scanners, all for a desktop scanner price." The Astra 4450 ships with everything consumers, prosumers and SOHO users need to scan right out of the box. The package includes award-winning ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Sprint OCR software and MGI's best-selling PhotoSuite III SE image editing software. The UMAX Copy Utility turns the scanner into a color or black-and-white copy machine, while UMAX VistaScan provides an easy-to-use TWAIN-compliant interface with a PC. The Astra 4450 supports PCs running Windows 98, 98SE, 2000 or ME operating system, with Pentium-class or better processors, USB port, CD-ROM drive, 64 MB of RAM and 250+ MB of available disk space. A modem and Internet connection are required for Internet and e-mail functions. The Astra 4450 sells for a suggested retail price of $129. The companion Astra 4400 scanner, without transparency cover, has a suggested retail price of $99. |
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