IMAGE CAPTURE -- Market Goes Flat

While drum scanner demand has been on the decline, Neumann says flatbed sales in the graphic arts market have been stable to slightly increasing. "And since we only recently started going after the photographic market, we've seen some pretty big jumps there," he adds.

Even though Fujifilm addresses graphic arts and photographic users as two separate markets, Neumann says both support on-going development of the technology. The company's Finescan product lines for the photographic market and its Quattro graphic arts scanner are all built on a common platform, he points out. "The different capabilities, productivity and price points of the products are targeted to the specific markets, though.