IMAGE CAPTURE -- Market Goes Flat

What about the remaining high-end graphic arts scanner manufacturers? How do they see the future shaping up for scanners and scanning services?

Drumming Up Business

"The drum scanner market is a mature market and, as a result, sales activity has been declining for the past few years," concedes Ray McAllister, senior manager at Screen (USA) in Rolling Meadows, IL. It's a classic good news/bad news situation, however, since McAllister says the company actually has seen an increase in customer inquiries because it is the only remaining manufacturer of drum machines among the traditional big three vendors.