Scan Fan
Tech stuff you can't live without.
By Heather Page
Sometimes you just can't imagine how your business ever got
along without some handy piece of technology, like your fax machine
or copier. For Brian Laschkewitsch, president of La Selva Creative,
a homebased Web-consulting company in La Selva Beach, California,
that piece of technology is his Astra 1220S scanner from Umax
Technologies. Prior to purchasing the flatbed scanner in March,
Laschkewitsch took his color marketing materials and Web site art
elements to a nearby service bureau for scanning. The process often
took several days. "In this industry, that's just not
acceptable," says Laschkewitsch, 43. "So buying a scanner
was one way to increase my turnaround on projects."
Besides a competitive price ($229), professional quality output
is another reason Laschkewitsch chose the Astra 1220S. It offers
36-bit color and 600 x 1200 dpi, so it's powerful enough to
meet most of his needs. "I have to be able to scan [artwork
for] print media at the very highest quality possible, and so far,
the Astra 1220S has worked just fine," he says.
The Astra 1220S model comes with a standard SCSI-II interface,
which allows users to connect several peripherals into one
expansion slot for easy manageability. Because Laschkewitsch
already had an Iomega Zip drive for data backup plugged into his
computer's parallel port, the SCSI-II interface gave him the
flexibility he needed for connecting all his office
peripherals.
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The Astra 1220S is both PC- and Macintosh-compatible and comes
with a powerful software bundle, which includes Adobe PhotoDeluxe
for editing images, NewSoft Presto! PageManager for sharing scanned
images via e-mail and other modes of communication, and Caere
Omnipage LE OCR software for easily turning scanned pages into
text.
For further information, contact Umax at (800) 562-0311 or visit
http://www.umax.com
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