India, Aug. 21 -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp. has launched a lens-reduction type CCD linear image sensor "TCD2728DG" for A3 multifunction printers. Shipments have just started.

The sensor has 7,500 image sensing elements (pixels) and supports A3 multifunction printers. It is also more effective at reducing random noise (ND0) than Toshiba's current TCD2726DG.

Business offices are seeing a growing need for high-speed, high-resolution copying and scanning of large volumes of different kinds of documents. This is particularly true for A3 multifunction printers, where improving image quality has become an important issue, and ND0 in the signal has to be suppressed to enhance image quality.

TCD2728DG has lower output amplifie...