Item    8965532                 93/10/14        11:01
From:   NEXT-CLASSROOM@GAC.EDU@INTERNET#
Subject: Hotscan 1.0

For Immediate Release

Night Owl Software and Digital Direct would like to announce version
1.0 of Hotscan, Night Owl Software's new NEXTSTEP application for
Nikon's Coolscan film scanner.

Coolscan is a 35mm film scanner that can scan slides and negatives at
resolutions up to 2700 dots per inch.  Coolscan attaches to your SCSI
bus and provides accurate scanning in both black and white and 24-bit
color.

Hotscan provides a very intuitive and powerful interface to Coolscan
under NEXTSTEP.  Features include film previewing, easy selection of
target regions, LZW image compression, scanner focusing, automatic
control of exposure setting, and adjustments for exposure, contrast,
and brightness.  Hotscan runs under NEXTSTEP 3.1 on NeXT computers
and on NeXT-approved Intel-based computers.

Hotscan can be purchased from Digital Direct for $299 ($249 for
academic users).  Digital Direct is bundling Hotscan with the
Coolscan scanner (external version) for $2296 ($2246 for academic
users).

For more information, contact:

   Digital Direct
   1316 Walnut Street
   Philadelphia, PA 19107
   (800)993-4485 or (215)735-1026
   (215)735-7051 fax






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