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WHAT'S HOT: A winning package for professional print publishing and serious scanning purposes, the dual-interface (USB 1.1 and FireWire) Microtek ScanMaker 8700 Pro Design is an industrial- strength scanner with powerful imaging software capable of delivering accurate color from input to output. Like its predecessor, the ScanMaker 8700, the enhanced Pro Design version is a legal-document-capable unit that produces attractive reflective and transparency scans in 42-bit color.
Both on-screen and print tests yielded realistic color images with fine details, although many images looked slightly dark. In a performance test using a very data-dense image at 1200 dpi and 48- bit color depth, the 8700 was far and away the fastest scanner in our test set, with a throughput rate of 547KB per second. The next closest competitor, with a throughput rate of 468 KBps, was our current corporate...