Agfa Announces The Snapscan E20; Newest "E" Generation Scanner

WILMINGTON, MA - July 26, 2000 - Agfa Corporation's Consumer Digital Imaging Group (USA-CDI), a leading provider of award-winning digital cameras and desktop scanners, today introduced the SnapScan e20, the newest member of the "e" series scanners.

The SnapScan e20 combines the award-winning SnapScan technology with advanced software to make it easy for new users to communicate with pictures. Agfa's unique ScanWise scanning software automatically formats scanned images for email, word processing, text conversion (OCR), Web pages, or image-manipulation programs. For those who want to turn their digital images into high-quality traditional photographs, Agfa includes AGFAnet software.

The dual-platform scanner (Macintosh(tm) and Windows(tm), including Windows 2000) offers USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectivity for fast, on-the-fly data transfer.

It offers 36-bit color depth at a resolution of 600 x 1200 pixels per inch (ppi). Maximum scanning area is (216 x 297 mm, 8.5 x 11.7 inches).

With the SnapScan e20, Agfa bundles Corel Print Office(tm) 2000 and Readiris(tm) multilingual OCR (optical character recognition) software. Corel Print Office makes it easy to create impressive documents and Web pages. It includes photo-editing tools, style templates, and support for digital cameras and scanners. Readiris, which recognizes 55 languages, lets users easily convert hard-copy documents-originals, faxes and photocopies-into editable text.