Re: New CreoScitex Scanner lowers used prices

["dickbo" <dickbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Ian Goodrick" <goodrick@appleonline.net>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: New CreoScitex Scanner lowers used prices

> 40 scans an hour, and 16-bit colour. Although Creo were just quoting
figures
> with no criteria for them.

40 per hour - not including mounting and individual image set-up would work
out at 11/2 min per scan which would suggest quite small images.

However in the professional world the actual scanning speed is hardly an
issue, t'is the operator time for set-up and original mounting procedure
that takes the time.

Should that be done off-line (or elsewhere if you like) then the scanner
becomes just a sausage machine which suggests no pre-scan facilities. If
that were the case then a low buying price would be the order of the day
although the requirement for pre-scan activity would have to added into the
production hourly cost in practice.

I would suggest that Scitex are just shooting a line on productivity - a not
unusual situation with them - because it all depends on the type of work and
final image size - or if a server is in use, file size.

If you could get them to tell you how long it takes to scan a 1" image area
then you could work it out quite accurately.



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