Plustek goes green, bags the internationally renowned ‘Energy Star’ certification for four of its high performance scanners

Plustek’s book scanners – OpticBook 3600, OpticBook 3600 Plus, OpticBook 4600 and OpticBook V100 models are now Energy Star certified

New Delhi, February 19, 2009: Plustek, one of the world’s leading imaging and communications solutions provider, today announced that four of its products – book scanners – OpticBook 3600, OpticBook 3600 Plus, OpticBook 4600 and OpticBook V100 – have won the internationally renowned ‘Energy Star’ certification.

According to Dr. Karen Ku, Vice President, Plustek, “Almost all of us are aware of consequences global warming and the harmful impact that carbon emissions have on our planet. We should be careful when it comes to using the products that have any direct or indirect association with carbon emission. One responsible way of supporting the cause is to use Energy Star certified products which help reduce global warming and at the same time result in huge saving as far as energy consumption is concerned. We are delighted to announce that four of our book scanners have bagged this coveted certification and Plustek, as a company, is contributing towards saving the ecosystem for generations to come.”

Energy Star certified Book Reader V100 is a revolutionary product that turns the text books to talking books. With V100, students and academicians need not sit in front of their books for long hours rather they can toggle between various memorable images in their laptops or PCs and listen to their books created by V100. More than any thing, this product helps the visually impaired persons, who otherwise take a lot of pain in reading the printed documents including, books, daily news papers, story books, circulars, notices, etc. As Plustek Book Reader V100 comes with highly accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and auto document orientation software, it ensures quality output for TTS (Text to Speech). Press of one button can easily turn the entire page to a life like voice. V100’s ABBYY Fine Reader 6.0 Sprint plus OCR software provides a simple user interface and supports recognition up to 177 languages. Connected with PC through USB 2.0, V100 scans documents at 1200 dpi so that the color of the image remains intact and gobbles only 18 watt power in the functional mode.

Energy Star certified OpticBook 3600 is an innovative book scanner with unique design. It eliminates the book spine shadow and text distortion of traditional book copying and scanning. Its 7 one-touch buttons are designed to make the scanning easy and efficient, whether you’re using bound originals (e.g., books, magazines) or normal paper (e.g., photos, documents). With just one touch, you can save the scanned images or convert images of the text document into text files that can be edited with a word processor. You may also choose to send them to another application for further editing, to a printer, or to a new e-mail message as attached files. The Plustek’s patent pending SEE™ (Shadow Elimination Element) Technology includes a specially designed edge and lamp. This revolutionary technology allows half of the book to lay completely flat on the glass with the binding against the corner edge. The best part of the scanner is its amazing scanning speed of 9 second per page, which encourages the users to use it repeatedly.

Energy Star certified OpticBook 3600 Plus model can convert printed pages into PDF files within seconds. Connected through high speed USB 2.0, it can scan each page in 7 seconds (A4-size color, grayscale, B/W scan at 300 dpi). Its user-friendly Book Manager software properly rotates and saves the page images in correct order and the inbuilt mechanism categorizes the scanned images for easy data retrieval. It even combines multiple images into one file, just like one chapter consisting of several pages.

Energy Star certified OpticBook 4600 is unique in itself with scanning speed of 3.2 second per page. Its one-button functionality makes scanning simple, fast and efficient even for the amateurs. OpticBook 4600 offers the flexibility of assigning up to five different scanning functions in accordance with user’s preference.

About Energy Star

Started in 1992, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced ENERGY STAR as a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy-efficient products to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Earth. The objective also is to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices. The key results are actually astounding as the Americans, with the help of ENERGY STAR, have saved enough energy in 2007 alone to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 27 million cars — all while saving $16 billion on their utility bills.

It has a great role to play in the common households also. Energy efficient choices can save families about a third on their energy bill with similar savings of greenhouse gas emissions, without sacrificing features, style or comfort. ENERGY STAR helps you make the energy efficient choice. Just you need to look for household products that have earned the ENERGY STAR. For example, if you are looking for a new home, try to look for one that has earned the ENERGY STAR. If you are looking to make larger improvements to your home, EPA offers tools and resources to help you plan and undertake projects to reduce your energy bills and improve home comfort.

Similarly in business, it can bring in a drastic change. A strategic approach to energy management can produce twice the savings to the bottom line so also to the environment. EPA’s ENERGY STAR partnership offers a proven energy management strategy that helps in measuring current energy performance, setting goals, tracking savings, and rewarding improvements. EPA provides an innovative energy performance rating system which businesses have already used for more than 62,000 buildings across the country. EPA also recognizes top performing buildings with the ENERGY STAR.

About Plustek Inc.

Plustek, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high quality scanners and communication products for office, professions, and home users. In business since 1986, Plustek began as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for many large companies, producing innovative lines including scanners, IP cameras, servers and imaging related products. Through dedicated design innovation with strict and high quality manufacturing standards, Plustek has grown to become one of the largest image solution providers in the world. In addition to sales and supporting offices worldwide, China-based factories and offices provide just-in-time manufacturing and superior engineering. This allows Plustek to introduce outstanding new products to the market in high quality and outstanding after sales services.

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