So you've picked your ultraportable and portable printer. What's left? How about a color scanner for the road that can handle almost any scan job. Primax Electronics' (Campbell, CA, (800) 338-3693 or (408) 364-2800)
ColorMobile Office
($289) features a modular design so that you can snap on attachments for hand-held, sheet-fed, and self-motorized scanning of images and documents.
The ColorMobile Office weighs only 2 pounds and supports any image mode from black-and-white up to 24-bit true color at resolutions ranging from 100 to 400 dots per inch. The ColorMobile Office working alone as a hand-held scanner can scan pages from a book or manual. If you have shaky hands, the Motor Module attachment rolls the scanner along a flat trackpad for up to A4-size documents. The Office
Feeder sheet-fed module sucks in 4-inch-wide business cards or photographs.
The scanner is bundled with the TWAIN-compatible ImagePals Go file management and image-editing software. It also includes ReadIris Intelligent Text Recognition OCR software to edit scanned-in text files. ColorMobile Office works on AC power and hooks up to a system via the parallel port.
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Primax's Colormobile Office
