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[News] Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICSANN.lu
Posted on 26-May-2002 22:20 GMT by Felix Schwarz14 comments
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Scan like the props! IOSPIRIT has advanced its product palette and you can now order professional calibration targets at a very low and attractive price that give you best scanning results when used together with ICS and fxSCAN 4.0. And its easy to use, too! Just scan the target with your scanner and let ICS create a profile out of the result. From now on, you can automatically reach best and optimized results by selecting the ICS-filter in fxSCAN! The results are very close to the original template and mostly can´t even be distinguished from it!

- Very attractive price but top quality!
- Meets the IT 8.7/2 and ISO 12641 standard requirements.
- High color volume.
- Printed on high-quality Kodak(R) Professional paper.
- Meets the error tolerances required by the standard. Addmissible tolerance is 5 dE for reference files and 2 dE from CIE Lab for single measured targets. This target reaches an average of 0,3 dE in production!!
- additional reference files for scanners with light picture background. The standard only requires reference files for black background.
- also recommended for owners of older targets that may contain color errors after years!

More infos at IOSPIRIT.

Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 1 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Dagon on 26-May-2002 23:46 GMT
Let's hope that new Amigas will come and to have such software for them.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 2 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Patrick on 27-May-2002 02:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Dagon):
I hope so to. Since a hand full of Amiga users do have PPC Accelerators and Amiga OS4.0 is also soon to be available for both PPC equip Amiga's and the Amigeone. I don't see why not. I think we really need to put the 68k Amiga's behind us and move on to PPC Amiga's but without Amiga OS4.0 were stuck dealing with the very slow 680x0 Processor and the programs that run on them.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 3 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Felix Schwarz on 27-May-2002 05:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Dagon):
I can't see why fxSCAN shouldn't work on MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0 (I already ran it on MorphOS and it works fine there). If any changes to my sourcecode are required to make it work on the final versions of MorphOS or AmigaOS 4.0, rest assured I'll make them and provide a free patch. In case someone is interested in that info, too: it also runs fine on Amithlon with a SCSI-scanner attached.
However, the AMIGA-market has to live *now* from what is bought. If nobody supports the AMIGA market *now* by buying existing products, don't expect the market or any software-developer to exist anymore *tomorrow*. We all have invoices to pay.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 4 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by DaveMcK on 27-May-2002 05:59 GMT
Just a (silly?) question... Are there any parallel port scanner drivers for the amiga? The only ones I see are SCSI. Maybe there is a reason for this?
Thanks in advance,
Dave.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 5 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 27-May-2002 07:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Dagon):
AFAIK Wolf Faust's software works on Amigas now, so it should work
fine on AmigaOS 4. He also sells colour test targets.
http://www.coloraid.de
Wolf is the author of the Studio printing software for Amiga and a
universal image importer for Pagestream.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 6 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 27-May-2002 07:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (DaveMcK):
I've been using parallel Epson scanners on Amiga for years. You need a
custom cable, but the connections in this are well known.
I'm now using the same scanner with SCSI in Amithlon, and it works
equally well - but with much more RAM it can scan in higher
resolution.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 7 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by The Editor on 27-May-2002 18:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Don Cox):
Yeah .. I run a GT5000 on parallel ( your right about the lead as well) I bought mine from Power a LONG time ago (cost £250 then) and it came with Powerscan software which was ok but not as good as ImageFX's built in scanner drivers.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 8 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by IanG on 28-May-2002 09:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Don Cox):
Could you post a link to wiring information about the custom cable, please?
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 9 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 28-May-2002 09:40 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (IanG):
AMIGA PARALLEL SCANNER CABLES
GVP CABLE
DB-25 MALE Centronics 36 MALE
Pin Signal Pin Signal
2 D0 2 D0
3 D1 3 D1
4 D2 4 D2
5 D3 5 D3
6 D4 6 D4
7 D5 7 D5
8 D6 8 D6
9 D7 9 D7
10 ACK* 10 ACKNLG*
11 BUSY 11 BUSY
12 POUT 36 DIR
13 SELECT 1 STROBE*
14 RESET* 31 INIT*
22 GND 30 GND
25 GND 33 GND
ASDG CABLE
Pin Signal Pin Signal
1 STROBE NC
2 D0 2 D0
3 D1 3 D1
4 D2 4 D2
5 D3 5 D3
6 D4 6 D4
7 D5 7 D5
8 D6 8 D6
9 D7 9 D7
10 ACK* 10 ACKNLG*
11 BUSY 11 BUSY
12 POUT 1 STROBE*
13 SELECT 36 DIR
14 +5v 14 NC
15 NC 32 NC
16 RESET* 31 INIT*
17 GND NC
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 10 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 28-May-2002 09:46 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Don Cox):
Looks like ANN has swallowed all the spaces. It was laid out nicely in
columns in Editpad.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 11 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Christian Kemp on 28-May-2002 10:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Don Cox):
There's no such thing as multiple spaces in HTML display, unless you use  
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 12 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 28-May-2002 11:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Christian Kemp):
ANN could let you choose to wrap your post in <PRE>
But then ANN's posting mechanism is fairly primitive, I guess if you wanted to add features you'd have done that a long time ago.
(Just in case, ideas: Duplicate supression, preview mode, link checking)
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 13 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by The Editor on 28-May-2002 16:10 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Anonymous):
I think its cool that Don knows the pinouts anyway !!
I have a spare Amiga Parallel cable. Dont suppose your in Uk?
They are quite short though, or at least both of mine are.
Scannertargets for fxSCAN 4.0 and ICS : Comment 14 of 14ANN.lu
Posted by Iggy Drougge on 28-May-2002 21:20 GMT
Great, I really need a calibration sheet for my Scanjet, it can create awfully dreary results if you're not wary. Oh, if only some Amiga graphics package (preferably ArtEffect) could have a feature like »Levels» in Photoshop! It's immeasurable useful when you're scanning. Thankfully, at least FXScan has something like it, so you can do some simple calibration prior to the scan, but once it's scanned, you've only got very crude or overtly powerful tools for adjusting the contrast or levels.
I definitely agree with Felix that the Amiga market needs to live *now*, or it will not live tomorrow.
As for the lack of support for parallel scanners; there's one good reason; the parallel port is awful and its scanners are, too.
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