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    Apple Color OneScanner 600/27: Description (3/96)
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    This article contains the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 description.


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    Description
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    The Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 is a highly affordable, highly capable scanner that lets you enhance your documents and presentations with high-quality color images for maximum impact. And it makes not only scanning but also a variety of related functions easier than ever before.

    With its 300- by 600-dot-per-inch optical resolution and bit depth of 27 bits, the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 provides images with impressive quality. Its color capabilities are equally impressive: It recognizes up to 134 million colors internally and supports ColorSync 2.0 color matching, so the image you see on the display or on printed output accurately and vividly reproduces the quality of the original scan.

    But high-quality images are only part of the OneScanner story. The OneScanner Dispatcher software that comes with this scanner brings a new level of ease to scanning and document handling. This software makes it simple to use the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 in conjunction with your Mac OS computer, fax modem, and printer, enhancing your productivity by letting you handle a variety of document processing activities in an intuitive, integrated fashion. In addition, to ensure that you get the most out of your scanner, the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 includes two other useful software packages. Xerox TextBridge 3.0 optical character recognition (OCR) software lets you scan printed pages directly into your computer as text files that you can edit and format*eliminating the need for time-consuming rekeying of text. It features an impressive accuracy rate of up to 98.5 percent. The second software tool, a Photoshop acquire module, lets you scan directly into Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop plug-in compatible software.

    But for all of its impressive capabilities and unprecedented ease of use, the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 remains highly affordable. So whether you're a teacher working with your students to create a newsletter, a freelance graphic designer producing a brochure, or someone who simply wants to jazz up your annual holiday form letter, the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27 is the perfect scanner to meet your needs.


    Features
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    Ease of use
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    - Provides automated, single-pass scanning

    - Comes with OneScanner Dispatcher software, which provides a variety of
    integrated functions like scanning, optical character recognition (OCR),
    editing, printing, faxing, copying, archiving, and retrieving images
    in one easy-to-use interface

    Image quality
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    - Offers 300- by 600-dot-per-inch optical (2400- by 2400-interpolated)
    resolution at 27 bits

    - Recognizes more than 134 million colors internally and 16.7 million
    externally

    - Features a cool-scanning Xenon bulb that provides daylight balanced
    illumination for better image quality and protects valuable originals
    from heat damage

    - Supports ColorSync 2.0 color matching, for excellent color fidelity from
    original scanned image to screen image to printed image Value-added
    software

    - Includes industry-leading Xerox TextBridge 3.0 OCR software (in Japan,
    eTypist 1.0), which lets you scan printed pages directly into your
    computer as digital files*eliminating the need for time-consuming and
    error-prone rekeying

    - Comes with a Photoshop acquire scan module, which lets you scan directly
    into Photoshop and compatible software Compatibility

    - Supports PICT, TIFF, JPEG, EPS, Photoshop 2.5, and BMP formats

    - Is compatible with most popular word processing, presentation,
    Image-editing, and page-layout software for the Macintosh


    Ordering Information
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    Apple Color OneScanner 600/27
    Order No. M4496LL/A

    - Apple Color OneScanner 600/27
    - OneScanner Dispatcher software
    - Xerox TextBridge 3.0 OCR software and user's guide
    - Photoshop plug-in acquire scan module
    - User's guide
    - Limited warranty


    Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your Apple reseller for the most current information about product specifications and configurations.



Document Information
Product Area: Peripherals
Category: Scanner Hardware
Sub Category: Color OneScanner 600/27

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