Depending upon the necessities and wants of the customer, large format scanners are accessible in a multiplicity of sizes. For example, there are scanners that use the mature CCD technology, and there are those that use the newer contact image sensor technology to scan images into a larger format. The bazaar for large format scanners has extended enormously. Once upon a time there were only a select not many who prepared such scanners, but there are dozens of manufacturers that create large format scanners nowadays.