Diving into a Digital Sea

On the other hand, the costs of the high-end external drum scanners have dropped as much as 10 to 30 percent due to configuration changes integrating the Macintosh. For in-plants with high volume and multiple shifts, they remain the equipment of choice, as they offer the combination of drum stability and PMT (photomultiplier tube) technology, which can handle a greater dynamic range at higher resolutions than the CCDs (charged coupled devices) used in flatbed scanners.