MUSTEK SHIPS SCANMAGIC COLOR II

New Handheld Scanner Provides 24-Bit Color For Under $300

New York, NY, June 28, 1994 -- Mustek Inc., leading manufacturer of color
Handheld scanners, announced today at PC Expo '94 in New York (Booth
#4216), the shipping of the Mustek ScanMagic Color II for Windows. The new
24-bit color, TWAIN-compliant handheld scanner captures photographic
quality images in 24-bit color, 256 true grayscales and 64 dithered gray
levels, all at up to 400 DPI resolution. Mustek began shipping the
ScanMagic Color II, complete with Micrografx' PhotoMagic 1.0 and Ocron's
Perceive Personal on June 27, 1994 for a reference street price of $299.

Mike Feng, vice president of Mustek, explains, "This scanner package is for
those users that have a need for true color capture and are hesitant to
invest a great deal of money. This scanning package is perfect for them.
Not only does it pack the power of pre-press scanning in 24-bit color, but
it can also capture photographic images m 256 grayscales for the price of
other packages that lack color capabilities. This desktop tool produces
professional results from an improved user interface and will be one of
Mustek's hottest sellers."

The CG-8400 is capable of capturing 24-bit color, recognizing up to 16.77
million different colors, photographic quality images in 256 grayscales,
4096 colors in the 12-bit color mode, and 64 dithered grays in the binary
mode. The shape of the CG-8400 is a streamlined design that fits perfectly
in the palm of the hand.

The controls for resolution, brightness, and scanning mode are located on
the side of the scanner where they are easily adjustable. Users have the
option to scan at resolutions ranging from 100 dpi to a resolution of 400
dpi.

The Mustek ScanMagic Color II will ship with PhotoMagic 1.0, an image
manipulation software package from Micrografx, and Perceive Personal, a
high accuracy optical character recognition package from Ocron.

PhotoMagic's editing and correction tools allow the user to manipulate and
customize images in the Retouch, Draw and Fill modes. Users are able to
stitch more than one scan together to form one seamless image. The
Thumbnails feature allows users to preview images. Text can be typed and
dropped directly into an existing image

.JPEG compression, another feature included in PhotoMagic, compresses and
saves large image files. Hard drive space is saved at a ratio of up to a
20: I ratio when using this file format.

Text is captured and recognized with Perceive Personal, a high accuracy
omnifont text recognition package. Perceive recognizes over 8 different
Indo-European languages at up to a 99.9% accuracy rate.

The Mustek CG-8400 is TWAIN compliant, meaning that the input of the
scanner integrates directly with other software packages that are also
TWAIN compliant. Scan images directly into the application without having
to quit, scan and import the file through an intermediate software
application.

The Mustek CG-8400 is compatible with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publish,
Wordperfect, Windows Draw, and other TWAIN compliant packages. The package
also supports TIFF, PCX, BMP, GIF, JPEG (Compression), and EPS (Export)
file formats.

Formed in 1988, Mustek Inc. is the leading color Handheld manufacturer and
offers a complete line of Handheld and flatbed scanners. With offices in
Irvine, Calif, Germany and Taiwan, Mustek's products are distributed
through an international network of resellers, VARs and OEMs.

Mustek Inc
15225 Alton Parkway
Irvine, CA 92718
714-453-0110,  fax 714-453-1010

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