Pandigital Adds Photo & Slide Scanners

Written on May 26, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, Pandigital

Most people don’t shoot standard film any longer and no one creates slides, but there are probably millions of both sitting in basements, closets and the like yearning to be digitized. Pandigital has released two new products to solve that problem, the PhotoLink One-Touch Print Scanner and the PhotoLink Slide & Negative Scanner. 

The Pandigital PhotoLink One-Touch Scanner (PANSCN02) easily scans photos to create high-resolution 1800×1200 pixels and 300dpi digital files. Designed for a less than digital audience, the one-touch scanner simply requires customers to insert the photo into the feeder and push one button to begin scanning.

The scanner accepts photos up to 4×6″ and can save images to a memory card inserted into the multi-card reader (SD/MS/MS-Pro/MMC/XD). The printer is ready to go out of the box, there’s no software to install or connection to a computer required and it comes with a 512MB SD card. The scanner can connect to a computer though via included USB cable to simplify file transfers. 

The Pandigital Photolink Slide & Negative Scanner (PANSCN03) has the same effect as the photo scanner, but handles slides and negatives. Just drop the slide or negative into the scanner and a single button press will save the digital file to an SD card or computer. The PhotoLink Slide & Negative Scanner scans images at 5.1 megapixels and has automatic and manual color balancing and exposure control options for optimum image quality. It also previews the color image when scanning, unlike other slide and negative scanners that typically only allow previews of the negative image.

The PhotoLink One-Touch Print Scanner has a suggested retail price of $129.99, the PhotoLink Slide & Negative Scanner is $99.99. Both units are available now.

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