imacon Flextight 848 User manual

Imacon’s state of the art software technology FlexColor offers ease of use and versatility.
Unique High-End quality
and speed
The Flextight 848 builds on the foundation of the award
winning »virtual drum« principle.
The speed and quality of this scanner exceeds any other
product on the market place today.
• Speed up to 50 Mb per minute
• Active CCD cooling (noise reduction)
• True 16 bit color – 4.8 Dmax in a single pass scanning
• Batch scanning
• Firewire and SCSI interface
• Clean, no artifacts or extra data generated, Digital Ecology
• Auto frame detection.
PHOTO: Jim Zuckerman
Format: Resolution:
35 mm Portrait Up to 8000 dpi
35 mm Landscape Up to 5000 dpi
45x60 mm Portrait Up to 4000 dpi
60x60 – 60x70 mm Up to 3200 dpi
4”x5” Portrait Up to 2040 dpi
Imacon Flextight 848
Looking for a challenge! We are ready to meet any
high resolution, high density scanner

Flextight 848
Next generation in high-end scanners
Don’t be fooled by the sleek design. This is
the most powerful high-end CCD scanner on
the market today. Flextight 848 offers higher
resolution, higher speed, true 16 bit color,
batch scanning, auto focus and a lot more.
Creating the versatile image file
It has become much more important the
same file can be repurposed for any media.
Whether the file is used for the web or it is to
be printed using high quality offset print-
ing, it is imperative that it look it’s best.
The only way to achieve the highest quality
output is to start out with the best of the best
quality “Raw” scan.
Digital Ecology
The reuse of files requires that the basic file
is as large as possible and is clean without
artifacts or prior manipulation. Any modifica-
tion to the basic file whether for colour or
other types of manipulation are unacceptable.
Workflow
Today it makes a lot of sense to create a
workflow which suits the requirements of
the industry today, and does not forget the
demands of tomorrow. FlexColor is the tool
able to handle this workflow.
FlexColor will have dual
functionality, as it is used for
scanning and also to prepare
files for future reuse.
Imacon A/S
Hejrevej 30
DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
Denmark
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www.imacon.dk
Imacon Inc.
15207 N.E. 95th Street
Redmond, WA 98052-2562
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Flextight 848 specifications
Virtual Drum – the only way to get
perfect focus with glass-free optical path.
By bending the original, the tension creates a
straight scan-line thus eliminating inaccuracies that
can cause registration errors and color flaring.
Imacon Flextight 848
Sharpness – Color – Shadow Detail
No compromise high-end scanning
Precision III
Same as FT 848
80 dpi to 6300 dpi
Same as FT 848
Film (negative/positive)
Print
14 bit true color mode
8 or 16 bit Tiff file
10 Mb/min.
Same as FT 848
4.2 Dmax single pass scan
Same as FT 848
20% to 3000%
Same as FT 848
No batch scanning
Same as FT 848
No
No
No
Standard SCSI
Optic sensor
Optical resolution
non-interpolated
Scan principle
Original type
Color depth
Speed
Software
Density
Format
Magnification
Scan Modes
Max file size
Auto focus
Frame detection
Active cooling
Interface
Flextight 848
CCD (3x8000)
80 dpi to 8000 dpi
Virtual Drum
Film (negative/positive)
Print
16 bit true color mode
8 or 16 bit Tiff file
50 Mb/min.
FlexColor compatible:
Mac OS 9+
PC version coming later
4.8 Dmax single pass scan
Transparency: 35 mm to 12x17 cm
Reflex: Up to A4
20% to 3800%
Color (24, 32 & 48 bit),
greyscale and line art. Batch
scanning and batch image processing
Up to 1.2 GB
Yes
Yes
Yes
Standard SCSI and Firewire