A 4 hand-held colour scanner with software for editing page-width photographs, illustrations and other colour graphics has been announced by NCL America Inc, the Milpitas, California-based subsidiary of National Computer Ltd of Tokyo: an addition to NCL’s ClearScan family, the device is designed for a range of MS-DOS-based applications running on AT or PS/2 systems; it can recognise 4,096 colours and operates at colour resolutions of 200 dots per inch; the scanner uses PC Paintbrush IV Plus software when editing or manipulating stored images, and custom-tailored 256-bit colour palettes are created for each graphic element or photograph scanned; also, PC Paintbrush IV Plus can cut, move, rotate or duplicate scanned images, create grey-scale renderings of a scanned image, and store an edited file in TIF or PCX formats; also, there is an Image-Merge function that takes individual graphics segments 4 wide and overlaps and stitches them together to form seamless full-page images.
