Astra 2200 Scanner

was announced by UMAX. From UMAX's Rick Thorp, "We issued a press release today regarding our new Astra 2200 scanner. It has both USB and SCSI II interfaces, and will work with virtually any Mac. It also has a transparency cover as standard equipment, for doing slides and negatives. It also ships with -- and this is going to kill you -- both NetObjects Fusion (full version ) and Macromedia Fireworks (full version), and that's in addition to the Photoshop LE and other software that we included. All this for $249." [That sounds fabulous! I was thinking about getting a transparency kit for my 1200S but now it may be a whole new scanner.--Bill]