The Next Wave - Digital Directions

"Throughput will continue to improve. For the first time, Scitex scanner throughput is high enough to exceed the data transfer rate of the SCSI interface. Current and future Scitex high-performance scanners will use some sort of high-speed link such as SCSI-2.

"Also, the increasing performance of general-purpose computers (such as Power Macintosh G3s) will continue to influence scanner technology. No longer will a scanner manufacturer have to design and manufacture special purpose image-processing hardware. Instead, the image processing can be transferred to the host computer benefiting from the revolutionary performance improvements that come out of the general-purpose computer world."