Scanning The Horizon

"People are expecting one scanner to do every type of scan," he reports.

Gillooly says that with advances such as oil-mounting and resampling, flatbed scanners now combine near-drum-quality resolution with convenience and affordability.

Gillooly says CreoScitex XY-Stitch technology is the next step in XY-Zoom scanning. With XY-Zoom, the high-resolution charged coupled device (CCD)—which responds to light and records the image—moves across the entire bed of a flatbed scanner, increasing its potential for batch scanning. The only problem with XY-Zoom is that it can only be used to scan small images, like 35mm slides.