Array's color AS-1 fills pre-press scan bill. (Array Technologies Inc.'s Array Scanner-One, an electronic color camera/scanner) (product announcement)

By Pamela Pfiffner

Oakland, Calif. -- Array Technologies Inc.'s electronic color camera/scanner takes the jack-of-all-trades approach to high-resolution pre-press scanning.

The Array Scanner-One (AS-1) for the Mac II functions as a scanner for 35mm slides and film, a copy-stand camera for reflective images and a still camera for 3-D objects.

Priced at $25,900, the AS-1 comes configured as a slide scanner. It ships with a dedicated 83086 processor and an 80-Mbyte hard disk, allowing users to scan in the background while using the host computer for other tasks. This image server also lets the scanner operate on a network for access by other workstations.

The system requires a GPIB (general-purpose interface bus) board on the Mac II, but a SCSI interface should be available by January, according to Bo Varga, director of marketing at Array. NuBus GPIB cards are marketed by many vendors of data acquisition and instrumentation products for the Mac.

The Array scanner camera can be removed and attached to a tripod or camera stand -- not supplied by Array -- for scanning photographs or 3-D objects.

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