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ScanMaster |
ScanMaster™ Developed for our Digital PlateMaster Series and the D-Stat
Platemaking System., ScanMaster™ provides off-the-glass scanning and
descreening capabilities. It allows you to import and manipulate images,
text, line art and tints from hard copy or pre-printed originals and
integrate them into your digital workflow. ScanMaster does not merely scan the entire page then send it to
a plate. Rather, it allows the user to bring in color and black and white
originals, screened originals, text (even on a tinted area), photographs and
other pieces, then manipulate the various elements
to create a digital document. This is all done through an easy-to-use graphic interface on the
ScanMaster system. There’s no need to switch between text, scanning and
layout programs and no multitude of software applications to learn. Using conventional equipment, one might use an optical camera /
platemaker on a job to screen a black and white original photograph, process
it, paste it up with some text, do spot color separations, then shoot a polyester or paper plate. This process could take nearly
45 minutes. If the same job had a color photo, the optical equipment could
not be used; it would need to be scanned and re-set on a desktop computer,
separated to negs, then plates made. That process could add days to the job,
especially if it needed to be sent to a service bureau. Today, with ScanMaster, you can scan in the various hard copy
elements right into the platemaker or digital press and make fine adjustments
to each. For instance, you can add brightness to a dim image and define
threshold values to get the sharpest text. This can be accomplished easily since there’s no multitude of
specialized layout programs to understand. Just work through the easy-to-use
interface. Plus, the quality of ScanMaster output compares favorably to
digital files created by desktop graphic programs. |
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