Scanning The Future

While drum scanner demand has been on the decline, Neumann says flatbed sales in the graphic arts market have been stable to slightly increasing.

"Color management is a key area of enhancement for all of our scanners and an area where we are putting a lot of our focus as a company," he says.

Fujifilm recently started going after the photographic market, he adds. And even though the company addresses graphic arts and photographic users as two separate markets, Neumann says both support ongoing development of the technology. The company's Finescan product lines for the photographic market and its Quattro graphic arts scanners are all built on a common platform, he points out.