The Astra 610 scanners are compact enough for the home or small business office where ease-of-use and value are critical. With UMAX aggressive pricing, quality flatbed scanners capable of more than a billion colors are now easily affordable to the consumer and business professionals alike. The Astra 610 products have a hardware resolution of 300 x 600 dpi with single-pass scanning for speed and quality color alignment. The scanners also include a software bundle with the award-winning Adobe PhotoDeluxe, UMAX copy utility, and Presto! PageManager from NewSoft. ??The Astra 610P uses a pass-through parallel port interface for easy installation to both PC desktop and laptop computers. This "plug and play" capability makes connecting the scanner to any computer's printer/parallel port a snap, even for non-technical users.