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From OS X 10.6 some printer drivers no longer allow to deactivate the color management. However, this is essential for printing the Printer Calibration target. In SilverFast you can easily chose if your scanner allows this or not. Please check your printer manufacturer's website weather the color management can be deactivated for your printer or not. For some printers a special driver must be installed for this to be possible.

You can select how to print the target here:


For the optimal way of disabling your printer's color management please select the first option:

Information on exactly how to deactivate color management can be found in your printer's manual.

In case disabling the color management is not possible select the second option:

This option will require the following settings:
- open the option Color Matching in the printer settings.
- activate ColorSync.
- select Other Profiles.
- search for Wide Gamut RGB Profile and select it.
- select your paper type, output quality and resolution as usual.

Now you are ready to print a Printer Calibration target and to continue with the calibration process.

Lists all your settings for your currently active scan-frame.

The Prescan obtains a fast scan image from the scanner which allows you to make all your settings.

This is the first step to a scan in SilverFast SE, SEPlus and Ai Studio.

Available options depend on scanner model:

reflective for paper and other opaque materials. Only available on flatbed devices.
transparency for scanning slides and film.
wide transparency for scanning large slides and film. (Available only on certain EPSON scanners.)

Positive for scanning slides and reflective media.
Kodachrome for scanning Kodachrome slides. (only available in transparency mode.)
Negative for converting negatives into positives using NegaFix. (only available in transparency mode.)

Clicking this button zooms into the active scan-frame or back to the full view.

Holding the command(Mac)/Ctrl(PC) key and left mouse button allows you to drag a box around an area to zoom into.

The histogram allows you to manually adjust the highlights, shadows and midtones.
If necessary it also allows you to set the color space compression and adjust the color cast removal strength (CCR).

Depending on your version of SilverFast you can select various ways to display the histogram. The main area of the histogram shows the distribution of the color values throughout the image. Below it you can drag the markers for the shadows, mid-tones and highlights. In the expert settings you can select the colorspace compression and set the color cast removal(CCR) value more movies

Used for rotating and flipping the entire workplace and.
The tool for the rotation of individual frames on a flatbed is located in the densitometer expert settings.

The Frame menu allows you to access all tools used for creating, saving, loading, copying and deleting frames.
which tools are available depend on your version of SilverFast.

It allows you to automatically create frames using the automatic find frames option.
On devices which can handle several frames (like flatbed devices) it allows you to easily copy settings to all frames from the selected frame to all others.

In SilverFast Ai Studio it further allows you to save and load settings for a frame and even use them as default for all frames you create.
This for example includes the resolution and the settings for all active tools.

The pipette tool allows you to manually select the highlights and shadows in your image and remove color casts.

To remove a color cast simply open the pipette tool and select the neutral point pipette.
Now click on the an area in your image which should be a neutral grey.
SilverFast will use this information to remove the color cast.
SilverFast Ai Studio allows to set up to 4 neutral points for an even more precise correction.

Using the 4 point pipette in Ai Studio:
Using the single point pipette:	more movies

The USM tool allows you to sharpen your images. To view your changes in the preview window please activate the 1:1 preview in the USM dialog.

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The edge contrast defines the actual resolution an individual device can obtain.
This value varies from the given physical resolution due to several physical effects.
This knowledge allows you to select the most efficient resolution for your scans.
Obtaining the best resolution and sharpness while limiting scan time.
LaserSoft Imaging offers the USAF resolution target to measure this resolution.
It allows you to measure your scanner's best resolution and to set the optimal USM values for a certain resolution.

More information on the USAF can be found here on our website.

These targets can also be purchased in our onlineshop.

For more information please visit our movie page.
Here you will find our movies on setting the resolution for your SilverFast product.

The Selective Color Correction (Selective CC) allows you to select individual color values and adjust them.

For greyscale mode this tool is replaced by the Selective Color to Grey (SC2G) tool.

Simply click on the center circle and the pick a color from your image. Now you can edit the colour value by dragging the small black circles or by changing the HSL(Hue, Saturation, Luminescence) values. The Expert mode allows you to limit the changes by adding a mask. You change between 6 colour and 12 colour editing mode. And use presets for the individual color channels. In SilverFast Ai Studio you can use up to four individual layers for masks with individual settings. more movies

Removes print screen from reflective material. This tool is only available for flatbed devices in reflective mode. In case this tool does not work as expected, please check the entered screen value.

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The focus tool is only available if the scanner offers a focus function. Which options are available also depends on the functions your scanner offers. Scanners with a fix-focus unit do not offer this tool. Manual Focus Control Please refer to our movie and PDF manual to learn how to use the manual focus control.

Documentation more movies

The standard PDF output creates a single page PDF.

On flatbed devices you can use the print function or PrinTao to create a multi-page PDF.

On single frame and feeder scanners multi-page PDFs are only available through external tools.

Make sure transparency mode is selected.
In cas that is not possible follow the above link (headline).

The transparency selection(s) do not appear when I click the reflective button.

I can not select Negative and Kodachrome modes.