Welcome; About This Guide - AGFA Horizon Ultra Scanner Owner's Manual

Preface

Welcome

Congratulations on your purchase of Agfa™ 's Horizon Ultra™
scanner, and welcome in our world of high-quality pre-press
peripherals and systems.
The Horizon Ultra scanner is a high-performance color digitizer for
scanning reflective originals or transparencies.
It will help you to increase the productivity of your scanning process.
Its image quality makes it suitable to be used for pre-press graphical
applications. It is based on flat-bed, CCD (Charge Coupled Device)
scanning technology. The Horizon Ultra scanner is characterized by a
large input size range and a high scanning speed. Due to its 15,000
CCD pixels, an impressive output size range can be achieved. This
high-precision instrument features exceptional sharpness and color
fidelity.
The originals can be colored, gray-scale or line-art. The corresponding
bit depths can be either 10 or 8 bit for color and gray-scale originals,
or 1 bit for line-art originals. The scanned data are transferred to the
workstation through SCSI. The workstation can be either a Apple
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Macintosh , PC , PS/2
We wish you success with your scanner. Have fun!

About this guide

This guide to the Horizon Ultra scanner contains three chapters and
three appendices:
Chapter 1, 'Preparing the scanner', shows you how to prepare your
scanner for installation.
Chapter 2, 'Installing the scanner', shows you how to set up your
Horizon Ultra scanner for the Apple Macintosh, PC, and IBM PS/2
computers.
Chapter 3, 'Calibration tools for the Macintosh or PC', shows you
how to calibrate your Horizon Ultra scanner.
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