The big scan: here's lookin' at gray-scale scanners that get the best from a tough photo

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Gray-scale scanners vary in image quality and price; flatbed scanners shown here have at least 128 levels of gray, and cost between $2,000 and $3,000. The $2,510 PS/2-based IBM PageScanner 3119 is the only scanner with just 128 levels of gray. The $6,350 Mac-based Agfa Corp Focus II S800GSE has the best image quality, but costs about $4,000 more than the others. The $2,190 PC, PS/2 and Mac-based HP ScanJet Plus offers a good alternative and includes low-cost software with good image quality, making it the overall Mac and PC/AT winner for gray-scale scanning. Microtek Inc's $2,195 Mac-based MSF-300Z provides good image quality, but has no prescan brightness or contrast controls. New Dest Corp's $2,095 PC and Mac-based Scan 3000 offer few options but produce good images. Abaton's $2,190 Mac-based Scan 300/GS has limited software features, but good image quality. Panasonic Communications $1,599 PC-based FX-RS307 is best for simple images.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Product information, Equipment and supplies, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, Directories, Panasonic Co., Bayer Corp. Agfa Div., Apple Macintosh II (680X0-based system), Comparison, Scanning, buyers guide, Everex Systems Inc. Abaton Div., Microtek Lab Inc., IBM PC AT (Microcomputer), Microtek Lab MSF-300Z (Flatbed gray-scale scanner), New Dest Corp., HP ScanJet Plus (Scanning device), Agfa Focus II S800GSE (Scanning device), IBM PageScanner 3119 (Scanning device), New DEST PC Scan 3000 (Scanning device), Abaton Technology Scan 300-S (Scanning device), Panasonic FX-RS307 (Scanning device)

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Design pros take to the desktop: personal computer publishing catches on in Manhattan

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Desktop publishing has attracted New York City-based graphic designers at large magazines and newspapers, working for book publishers, and in many graphic design studios. At Newsweek, art director Roger Black is testing Ventura Publisher and believes that desktop publishing will be very successful in graphic design, especially in page layout; similar views are held by Gary Cosimini of the New York Times and Karl Hartig of the Wall Street Journal, at which newspapers desktop publishing systems have found many applications. Some book publishers are using desktop publishing for writing and formatting text, sending code to typesetters, and book layout. Large graphic design studios, such as Carbone Smolan Associates, as well as smaller studios are finding the same tools save labor and time and are a major factor in the future prosperity of their industry.

Newspapers, Book publishing, Periodicals, Publishing industry, New York, Text processing software, Automation, Design, Graphic arts, Trends, Microcomputer, Outlook, Companies, Applications, Book, Magazines, New York (City)

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