Digital BW, The Print

Brian,

I have a Linoscan 1400 which I believe is identical to the Ultra 2 
Saphir. I originally set it up under Windows 98 using the Newcolor 
4000 software that came from it. I found the software very confusing 
and had no idea of exactly what the scanner was doing.

I believe that Linocolor's Elite software is available for Mac users 
with this scanner and I have heard that it is good. You might try to 
see if you can get a copy of that.

The other thing to try is Vuescan. I am just starting with this 
myself since I switched to Win 2000 and the Newcolor doesn't run 
under that OS. Vuescan has gotten lots of favorable comments and a 
trial version can be found for the Mac at:

http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Martin Wesley




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Brian Mikiten" 
<bmikiten@s...> wrote:
> I've had two responses thus far and I'll share my concerns if 
anyone can help. The hardware is an Ultra2 Saphir running 
Linocolor/Newcolor software hooked to a G4/500 with photoshop 6.0, 
GF2.0 and a piezo 1160 with cone inks. My concern has to do with the 
scanner settings and workspace definitions as well as the white and 
black point defaults in the scanner software. I get reasonable scans 
now and the PS histograms aren't bad but after reading the Cone piezo 
instructions, I wonder if my scanner is just not set for the proper 
dynamic range when it scans.
> 
> Brian
> 
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