Price cuts
UMAX Technologies Inc. (Fremont, CA) has lowered the price of its Mirage II single-pass, 11.4 ¥ 17-in. imaging-area scanner from $7295 to $6495. The new price also includes MagicScan 4.0 image-enhancement and control software. . . . Toshiba Imaging Systems (Irvine, CA) has reduced the price of its PDR-M1 1280 ¥ 1024-pixel, 1/2-in.-CCD digital camera from $699 to $599. . . . MuTech Corp. (Billerica, MA) has cut the prices on several PCI-bus frame grabbers. The M-Vision-20M drops from $1550 to $1250; M-Vision 1500 1-Mbyte VRAM goes from $1500 to $1000; M-Vision 1500 2-Mbyte VRAM falls from $1700 to $1100; and M-Vision 1500 4-Mbyte VRAM slides from $2000 to $1400. . . . Epson America Inc. (Torrance, CA) has decreased prices by $200 on its line of Epson Expression 636 color flatbed scanners. The Executive Version 2 model moves to $599; the Artist Version 2 model drops to $699; and the Professional Version 2 model sells for $1099. All software bundles remain the same.
