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Olga Deshchenko, DOTmed News Reporter | August 31, 2010
Other companies are still offering their top models as well with about half-a-dozen major players to choose from.
The DRYPRO 832 from Konica Minolta is a tabletop model with a single tray for imaging facilities and private practices with low printing volumes.
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"An optional second tray is also available to fill the need in higher volume facilities that require dual film size imaging," says Batory.
Konica Minolta also makes the DRYPRO 873 unit, which is the manufacturer's leading dry imager. It's equipped with two trays and mammography capability.
The SONY FilmStation Digital Dry Film Imager UP-DF500 is an FFDM-enabled imager that caters to facilities with limited space. About the size of a desktop computer, it can be installed vertically or horizontally.
"It's only 147 pounds, which is 53 percent smaller than the next competition in the market," says D'Ambrosio.
Agfa Healthcare has four imagers in its product portfolio. For the acquisition of data, the company uses hard drives in its units instead of RAM.
"You don't have a problem of busy signals if you have multiple modalities trying to send images to it. It can store the images and then it moves them for printing," says McLain.
One of Agfa Healthcare's most popular imager units is the DRYSTAR AXYS.
"It's a high resolution tabletop imager designed to support full field digital mammo capability and two spatial mammo films," says McLain.
The Horizon multi-media imager manufactured by Codonics is a compact model with a focus on versatility. The unit needs less than two feet of desk space and is a dry film imager, a color imager and a grayscale paper imager all-in-one.
"When you're printing volumes and volumes of film, you have these huge printers that are the size of small refrigerators," says Kolberg. "We make a printer that has a very small footprint. It still prints large volumes of film, but it also prints paper and color."
Kolberg says that even though the health care industry is in the digital age, he believes that occasional printing will always be here, whether its film or paper.
"Our philosophy is to be the last printer standing," he says.
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