Digital Prints

“The Creo EverSmart scanner has become the cornerstone of our scanning services,” says
Bill Smith, owner of Boston Photo Imaging, a professional photo lab specializing in archiving,
collections, and reproductions. “Our largest order to date was 350,000 scans from
one customer, and the Creo’s combination of high capture quality, flexibility to accept
diverse originals, and speed to handle the large volume made it possible.”
With price tags in the low- to mid-five figures, Creo scanners are for serious digital imagers.
However, high-end scanners of this type also double as film scanners, so they can be worth
the investment depending on the need. Other super-flatbed makers include Fujifilm and
Microtek.
Specialty Scanners
There are other scanning systems—including such names as BetterLight, Jumboscan, and
Cruse—that don’t fit neatly into the categories above. These are very high-end reproduction
scanners used primarily by museums, universities, and research institutions. (For more
about digital back uses including BetterLight, see the “Photography” section next.)
The Jumboscan by Lumiere Technology in Paris uses a unique up-to-360-Megapixel
12000 × 30000 pixel RGB or “6 band/13 band multispectral” camera with the largest CCD
sensor array in the world: 78 × 195mm in size! The camera and JumboLux elliptical light projectors
that sweep across the subject in synchronization with the CCD array can be aimed to
scan objects on walls, floors, easels, and copytables. Currently being used by research
(Rochester Institute of Technology), education, and government institutions (U.S. Library of
Congress) as well as museums (the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery of London), the
JumboScan is the world’s only scanner that captures images with up to 6 or 13 filters instead
of the normal 3 (RGB) at very high definition for highly color-accurate fine-art reproduction.
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Figure 3.11 The Cruse Synchron
Table scanner. This is the latest
evolution of the Cruse reproduction
scanners where the bed moves under
the stationary light and image sensor.
Courtesy of Cruse Digital Equipment