DESC: Scan your old family photos into your computer for safe-keeping, or for e-mailing to relatives. Copy a page from your notebook and use it in a report. Or scan your important documents and archive them to disk for backup. With the CanoScan 3000ex Color Image Scanner, youll be amazed at what you can do. Its a snap to use, with three easy buttons that automate the scanning process. Just position your original, select Scan, Copy or E-Mail, and the image is ready to be archived, used in a project, or e-mailed. Plus, it delivers clean, colorful scans with a maximum 1200 x 2400 color dpi resolution and 48-bit color depth, for over 281 trillion possible colors.The versatile CanoScan 3000ex scanner is fast, too: a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface1 enables incredibly fast image transfers to your computer, along with the fastest possible scanning speeds. These scans can then be previewed on your monitor quickly, in approximately 8 seconds.