LaserSoft Imaging

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  • Karl -Heinz Zahorsky (CEO and sole shareholder )
  • Helga Bishop (Board)
  • Dr. of Geesthacht (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
  • Philipp Haarländer ( Director of Marketing )

LaserSoft Imaging AG is a manufacturer of scanners and digital camera software. Your SilverFast software is used by more than one million people worldwide according to own data. The company is headquartered Kiel, a business located in Sarasota, Florida.

  • 2.1 Special areas of application

History

1986-1990

The company was founded in spring 1986 by the physicist and today's CEO Karl -Heinz Zahorsky. The company was one of the pioneers of image processing on the Apple Macintosh, and also one of the first promoter for products such as video digitizers, including Pixelogics " ProViz " and Truvels " Exact Scan ", the first professional color scanner for the Macintosh, the first time at the Hannover Messe CeBIT was shown in 1988. The company had been invited by Apple Computer for CeBIT.

1990-2000

Karl -Heinz Zahorsky published frequently in professional journals on desktop image processing. The company Bright gave Karl -Heinz Zahorsky with his company in 1990 into a consultancy agreement for the integration of rapidly evolving desktop technologies. 1991 LaserSoft Imaging was registered as a limited company and moved into a large repro house in order to accelerate the integration of color reproduction on the desktop and the link Chromacom systems to the Macintosh.

With RipLink the company presented a system to connect leading repro systems, such as Hell, Scitex, Crosfield with the Macintosh. The distribution of the flat bed scanner was the beginning of the development of high-end scanners on the desktop. The company advised Leaf, Canon, Sony, Seiko and others with the very specific knowledge of desktop high-end color. The company was also the driving force behind the photons PrePress development after the product had gone through the initial stages of development. In 1994, the company started with the development of SilverFast, whose first version was first presented at CeBIT 1995. Version 2.0 was introduced at CeBIT 1996 and version 3.0 was completed in December 1996. Whole two years has been working on version 4.0, this also represents the biggest leap forward in the history of SilverFast Ai

2000-2010

SilverFast version 5.0 was released in 2000, version 6.0, then 2002. Update to version 6.5, which was completed in 2006, followed in May 2008, the current version 6.6. In 2001, the conversion to a stock corporation. The shares are 100 % owned by the founder. The company is currently the only developer of high- end scanning software is developed for all known scanners under Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista. The Heidelberg high-end scanner Topaz, Tango, Nexscan and Chromagraph ( 3300 and 3400), of which thousands are still in operation around the world, can be operated with this software on current operating systems. Since 2005, LaserSoft Imaging is the only software developers for these devices. Have already begun, SilverFast to market them worldwide. In this context, strategic alliances with manufacturers such as Canon, Hewlett -Packard, Seiko Epson, Cruse, Leica Camera AG, Microtek, Nikon, Pacific Image Electronics Pentacon GmbH, PFU / Quato, Plustek, Samsung and Umax were received. Here are partners who bundle their hardware with SilverFast. The EDP ( European Digital Press Association ) has LaserSoft Imaging's SilverFast in 2008 to increase the density range of most scanner models by multi-exposure and for the automatic generation of ICC profiles were awarded ' Best Color Management Software of the Year 2008 ' awarded. For a similar conclusion came 2009, the Fogra that examined LaserSoft Imaging's IT8 targets and SilverFast Farbmagement system and full compliance to strict ISO 12641 certified. Also in 2009, the HDRi raw data format was developed. In addition to traditional raw data with the additional data of the infrared channel It contains all readable image information for later image processing.

Since 2010

SilverFast version 8.0 was released in fall 2011. As a complete new development is SilverFast 8 with the WorkflowPilot a wizard that guides the user in the correct order through all processing steps required for its workflow and prevents errors in operation. SilverFast 8 is capable of multitasking, has an individually configurable graphical user interface and runs natively on Windows and Mac OS X. SilverFast 8 is not yet available for all scanners; individual models are gradually connected. The version 8 of the imaging software SilverFast HDR ( Studio) was introduced in 2012. In combination with the scanner software presents them as Archive Suite represents a complete solution for digitizing whole collections of images

The company has implemented some popular methods in the areas of scanning and image editing, over time. These include, inter alia:

  • Multi-Exposure ( with auto-alignment, patent no. EP 1744278 )
  • Auto IT8 Calibration (Patent: EP 1594301 )
  • ScanPilot
  • ICC Printer Calibration
  • GANE ® (elimination of image noise from film grain and color noise with fine correction )
  • HiRePP ® (High Resolution Picture Performance)
  • NegaFix ® (negative to positive true color )
  • Photo Proof ® (Without Rip color consistent print )
  • PrinTao ® (Direct Print all images with image editing and layout function )
  • SC2G ® ( Selective Colour to Grey )
  • SCC ® ( Selective Colour Correction)
  • SRD ® ( dust and scratch removal )
  • ISRD ® ( Dust-and Scratch removal with infrared technology )
  • Auto Frame Detection & Auto Frame Alignment ( flatbed )
  • HDRi ( 64bit/32bit raw data format with infrared channel data)

Products

The company's products can be divided into four product categories with different levels of application:

  • SilverFast SE / Ai / Ai Studio ( scanner software )
  • SilverFast DC SE / DC Pro / DC Pro Studio ( digital camera software )
  • SilverFast HDR / HDR Studio ( 48-bit image editing software )
  • SilverFast Archive Suite / Archive Suite SE (archiving solution with color management system)
  • SilverFast PrintTao (printer software)
  • LaserSoft Imaging IT8 targets represents time since the end of 2008 Kodachrome targets.

Special areas of application

Some users have found several very specific applications for SilverFast:

  • The Fachhochschule Hannover uses SilverFast for their research project Herbarium Digital; LaserSoft Imaging supports in technology management.
  • SilverFast as part of the photogravure process for Nachfertigen historical intaglio plates on the basis of well-preserved and scanned original prints.
  • Specially adapted SilverFast software allows users to scan X-ray films for medical purposes.
  • To scan and refinishing very difficult material like the eclipse photography.
  • For digitizing and archiving of bird feathers in the book design ( project leader).
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