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stilllearning - 13 Oct 2006 06:18 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has comments on the approximate length of
release cycles for scanners.
As an example, if you look at B-size scanners (Epson 10000XL), the last
release was in July 2004, and I was wondering when a product like this
gets refreshed.

Is there a standard conference where scanners are introduced, or a
buying season that companies like Epson attempt to release in advance
of?

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Hebee Jeebes - 13 Oct 2006 07:09 GMT

The large sized scanners are not any where close to be as popular as the
smaller ones so they would be updated less often. Though with that one being
2004 it should be able time. Maybe the did replace it but not with a like
model or they dropped it all together because it wasn't a good seller.

R

> Just wondering if anyone has comments on the approximate length of
> release cycles for scanners.
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> buying season that companies like Epson attempt to release in advance
> of?

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Stewy - 13 Oct 2006 12:47 GMT

> The large sized scanners are not any where close to be as popular as the
> smaller ones so they would be updated less often. Though with that one being
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> > buying season that companies like Epson attempt to release in advance
> > of?

I've been (almost) perfectly happy with my A4 sized scanner as it is
usually up to that size I usually scan. When I had to scan something
bigger Photoshop was there to stitch everything together. The only
irritant is Epson decided that as the scanner was sold in Japan, ,it
only needed a Japanese interface. If you have an english OS, you've got
all buttons with misc characters. Come on Epson, why not make one size
fit all and have multilingual software?

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Hebee Jeebes - 13 Oct 2006 19:03 GMT

I don't know how a company can get so many things right and then total boff
the pooch on the simple and often more important things like an interface
that works with different languages.

R

>> The large sized scanners are not any where close to be as popular as the
>> smaller ones so they would be updated less often. Though with that one
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> all buttons with misc characters. Come on Epson, why not make one size
> fit all and have multilingual software?

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timeOday - 14 Oct 2006 05:08 GMT

This is just speculation, but I would think scanners are refreshed less
and less often, and are dropping in popularity. I used to use my
scanner mainly for 1) scanning photos (no longer necessary due to
digital cameras) and 2) scanning documents (no longer necessary because
a digicam can do that instantly). I don't even have mine hooked up any
more.

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David J. Littleboy - 14 Oct 2006 05:15 GMT

> This is just speculation, but I would think scanners are refreshed less
> and less often, and are dropping in popularity. I used to use my scanner
> mainly for 1) scanning photos (no longer necessary due to digital cameras)
> and 2) scanning documents (no longer necessary because a digicam can do
> that instantly). I don't even have mine hooked up any more.

Epson cranks out new scanners with fair regularity. This year they released
the V700 and V750 6400 ppi scanners, before that there were several 4800 ppi
scanners, before that several 3200 ppi scanners (including a standalone film
scanner based on that technology). The top of the line about 5 years ago was
the 2450, a 2400 ppi scanner.

Canon has a similar line with similar capabilities and a fairly similar
product cycle.

My scanner (Nikon 8000) is still hooked up, but it hasn't been used since
the 5D arrived.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

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Bill - 14 Oct 2006 07:37 GMT

> This is just speculation, but I would think scanners are refreshed
> less and less often, and are dropping in popularity. I used to use
> my scanner mainly for 1) scanning photos (no longer necessary due to
> digital cameras) and 2) scanning documents (no longer necessary
> because a digicam can do that instantly). I don't even have mine
> hooked up any more.

If you mean regular document scanners like a flatbed or feeder, then
they are still made and released by the main companies like HP and
others. Businesses still use document scanners all the time to scan in
pages of data...it's the only way to put a digital copy of a manifest
or bill into the local network so anyone can view the document without
having to be in the same office.

But if you mean film scanners...well I don't know. I switched to
digital two years ago and haven't looked at film since.

Film is dead.

Long live digital!

:-)

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