Color Scanner enables online sale of color graphics.
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IDEAL/Contex Magnum XL 54 allows user to scan in color images up to 54 in. wide, store them on customized, browser-based IDEAL PlanRoom, and sell large format color graphics online. It offers real-time color correction and 2D-filter for color sharpening, softening, and blur. Color is captured at 42 bits, passing best 24 bits of color data to computer to enhance color fidelity. Scanner handles media up to 0.6 in. thick and scans color images at 3 ips. It supports FireWire and SCSI.Original Press Release:
New IDEAL/Contex Magnum XL 54 Color Scanner Feeds IDEAL's Online PlanRoom
Enable Quick Scan and Online Sale of Color Graphics
July 25, 2003, Rockville, MD - IDEAL.Com, introduces the new IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" color scanner which allows users to scan in color images up to 54" wide, store them on their own, customized, browser-based IDEAL PlanRoom, and sell large format color graphics online. The IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" color scanner is the first in the industry to handle 54" media and IDEAL's Online PlanRoom is customizable to sell color graphics online. These two technologies are targeted to Reprographic Companies, Sign Shops, Copy Shops, POP/Exhibit/Display Providers and Service Bureaus.
"Print for pay, reprographic companies and sign owners can combine two state-of-the-art technologies to make a new revenue center," states Jay Magenheim, president of IDEAL.com.
High Precision Color
The IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" color scanner incorporates the new TX technology for enhanced scan speed and image quality for high impact monochrome and color scanning for the scan-to-print and scan-to-web applications. The Magnum XL's on-board real time color correction and 2D-filters for color sharpening, softening, and blur provide superior results with a wide variety of input images. Color is captured at 42 bits for maximum color precision, passing the best 24 bits of color data to the computer to enhance color fidelity. The new 54" color scanner handles media up to 0.6" thick and scans color images at 3 inches per second (IPS).
Product Compatibility
The IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" color scanner provides flexible connectivity supporting both FireWire and SCSI. The IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" scanner incorporates the proprietary 3C Maintenance System that keeps the cameras perfectly aligned, adjusted and calibrated for optimal performance and quality. The IDEAL/Contex 54" scanner is compatible with IDEAL's scanning, indexing, editing and online planroom solutions, which include RasterID, intelligent title block contents recognition software with built-in, breakthrough OCR technology, automatically extracts title block information from scanned drawings to an archive database; WiseImage, intelligent raster editing software package that allows you to edit drawings in raster with the same ease as editing a CAD file; IntraSCAN provides instant network access of scanned drawings; and Online PlanRoom where you can archive, search, retrieve, view, sell, and print large format drawings on a password protected internet.
Online PlanRoom
IDEAL's Online PlanRoom offers more functionality than most planrooms. One the unique features of the IDEAL's Online PlanRoom is that it enables companies to display and sell, online, large format color graphics, posters, and other artistic representations as well as the typical plans and specs associated with a planroom. IDEAL's PlanRoom is a customizable online document ordering and management system. The IDEAL PlanRoom is a complete, secure solution for Internet-enabled large format businesses.
About IDEAL
IDEAL.com develops, markets, and supports a wide range of color and monochrome scanning solutions for large format drawings and technical documents including scanning, indexing, raster editing, raster to vector conversion, and browser-based online planrooms. For more information on IDEAL/Contex Magnum 54" color scanner and its Online Planroom as well as tiff images, please contact Kathy Magenheim at 301-468-0123 ext.1230 or contact via email at kmagenheim@ideal.com.
