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To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (7570)	10/25/1997 6:12:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Jeff the one I just got is an HP Scanjet 5pse. The diff. between a 5p & a 5pse is the software, se means special edition I think. I got if for doing photos and OCR. I'm using an HP 722C color printer and can scan a photo into the PC, then doctor it up and print it out looking better than the photo did before. The printer came with a photo-paint software program and I already had the Corel 5 software bundle which has Photo-paint. The printer withit's built in software will put out an image at 1200dpi res., if some special papers and fade resistant photo ink is used I can print a photograph. I got off track. Scanner...it comes with a SCSI card which will require a free IRQ address. There is a CD with installation software, scanning software and a program called PaperPort. PaperPort is a scanned image manager which allows you to file your scans in catagories or drag & drop them into other programs by dropping the image onto an icon. You can simply send it to the print, word processor, fax, image editor or whatever. They throw in Corel Web.Designer, a wed page publishing program. Installation using their card was easy, but I tried for days to run it with my BusLogic SCSI card and could not do without it crashing the PC and messing up my Windows Registry. I talked long and hard to all the hardware makers...HP, Buslogic and Micron. HP is a toll call, Buslogic's phone was busy for three days and I was using auto dail, Micron was great. I've only scanned two things for OCR use, both had spelling errors which were easy to correct in Word. The documentation is typical HP...adaquat, they blend the Win.3.1 instructions in with the Win.95 and they do the same thing with the existing card or using HP's card installation instructions. Once it's up and running I'm impressed! Hope you can make sense of this.

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (7570)	10/25/1997 6:16:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

November 10, 1997 7. THE MOUNTING CHALLENGE TO CISCO IN DATA SWITCHING pathfinder.com@@l7BL@wUAMCkGg6aV/fortune/1997/971110/ten7.html Tech Trends to Bet On 1. Centralized Computing 2. What Gates Doesn't Own 3. Consumerization of Computing 4. Wires 5. Hewlett-Packard 6. Disk Rhymes with Risk 7. Cisco's Challengers 8. PC Consolidation 9. Speech Recognition 10. Still Wintel On August 29, seven technology companies--Lucent, Nortel, Ericsson, Siemens, Newbridge Networks, 3Com, and UUNet--announced a $40 million investment in a largely unknown startup, Juniper Networks. Why? Because Juniper is developing routers and switches to speed data through networks faster than such products from Cisco Systems, and Cisco is the company to beat. In the past few years it has become to networking what Microsoft is to PC operating systems and Intel is to microprocessors. pathfinder.com@@l7BL@wUAMCkGg6aV/fortune/1997/971110/ten7.html

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (7570)	10/25/1997 7:06:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 22053

Suggestions Anybody? I gotta Umax S6E which I think has been relaced by the Umax Astra 600S. It works great and came with a SCSI card and Photoshop Le, which is nowhere near as powerful as full blown photoshop. I can certainly recommend the Umax, but I will say the HP scanners probably can't be beat. You start reading the scanner reviews and they change from month to month. HP's will cost you more but they do carry that HP name. If you want to get the full blown addition of photoshop some manufacturers bundle it whith their scanners for more money, but it would save you $$ over buying it separately. Derek BTW, your not gonna buy from the same place you bought you computer from are you? <gg>

To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (7570)	10/25/1997 11:24:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

I highly recommend the ScanMaker (MicroTek) E3. It is a flatbed 300x600 DPI (hardware)resolution 24 bit color. Scan surface is 8 1/5 X 14 inch. It will do much higher software resolution (2048x2048), but the hardware is the important one. I researched this for some time before purchasing (In March), and settled on it. It comes packaged with light versions of PhotoWorks and Adobe's OCR text recognition. It also comes with a Microtek software product (I like it). You can buy the professional versions of the PhotoWorks and OCR software (that's the expensive part) if you require it. I got it, but looking back, I use the Microtek software that came with it more...it just is easier to use. The scanner is dirt cheap now (under $150). It comes with it's own SCSI card for your PC, so it is not some slow printer port model. I have even scanned 3 dimentional stuff (a large circuit board with components that raised 1/2 inch above the circuit board. HP has problems doing this. The scans where picture perfect, unlike what you would expect if photocopying the same thing. No out of focus crap. I considered the low end HP (4 at the time). But could find no reason to get it after using one owned by someone else. It was clunky, and expensive. I did'nt like the sales puke mentality of HP support either. The software sucked at the tmie also, although that has changed for the better recently. I'll mail you some scans if you like. To give you an idea of the capability of these scanners: If you have only a 2x2 color picture, you can create a clear scan using 300DPI mode that will fill the screen of a 800x600, each color pixel having millions of colors posible. This is as good or better than most SVGA computor monitors can display! Now if you want to print a high quality copy of a color scan, a larger picture gives nicer definition. For OCR (Optical Character Recognition), the software that came with it is very nice (Caere Omnipage). I get 95%+ accuracy with good quality page print scans. One thing though: If you wish to scan columns (like a newspaper) without the columns getting mashed together in the final document, you will have to buy the upgraded software from Adobe or Caere to do this...that's pro stuff anyway, and I work around it. The software can easily cost more than the scanner. Here is an example of what you can do in about 15 minutes with the scanner. It does not domonstrate well the resolution, but does show it's versitility and color. Better resolution (150DPI) scans are in my profile under "Favorite links". The following document is a page from a Microsoft Powerpoint document I did not long ago. This is a scan of a failed Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch backplane. The scan was done in only 75 DPI (saves space on document by about 16 fold compared to 300DPI). The image was converted to a BMP (powerpoint can read it) using the scanner software. All blowups where done with the software. The final document was assembled with Powerpoint. To fully appreciate the document you really need to print it out on a good quality color printer. If you do download it, be sure to view it 100%. Right now it is saved as a 40% size file. Warning...it is over 2 MEG. All functions were done using Microtec software, not the expensive add on software. Keep in mind that this scan is of a 3-D object that is sitting about 1/2 inch ABOVE the scan glass. The scan was great for a 75 DPI pass. pipeline.com Another scanner model is available that you may be interested in. The E6 model will do 32 bit color, and the resolution is twice as good. You can also purchase it bundled with Pro PhotoShop for about 5-700 dollars.