> > I saw a picture of a flatbed scanner in a well-known mail-order catalog. The lid was up enough to see what's inside. Now, with all this information, and bearing in mind the fact that this company does not specialize in anything much, guess which way the picture was facing.
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> > Nyperold
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> Now, now, don't always think the worst of people. It could be there was a picture on the *other* side of the paper which was the one they really wanted to scan.
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> Brunnen-"though somehow I doubt it"G

Or it could be that they were using that to add an element of "wow, look how good the image looks!" that would certainly influence the average consumer and just wouldn't work if the picture were facing the right way.