Heidelberg Prepress' latest scanning creation is the Nexscan F4000 Series CCD flatbed scanners. Nexscan F4000 utilizes Heidelberg's unique Direct Capture Technology (DCT), which enables the CCD camera to be positioned directly below the original. The manifold benefits of DCT include: no breaking of the light path; no fall off in light intensity and no distortion of signal by mirrors. The Nexscan scanners are the result of market feedback from both of the company's flagship scanner products, TOPAZ and TOPAZ iX, as well as the culmination of Heidelberg's research and development in scanning and color management technology. Nexscan F4100, with its trilinear color CCD array (3x8,000 pixel), is the scanner for customers whose primary focus is color scanning and descreening. Nexscan F4100 was designed to meet the challenges of today's changing marketplace with users experiencing more short-run jobs, each with a larger number of color images.