LaserSoft Imaging

Hi,

I'm trying to callibrate my scanner (a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL) using the IT8 callibration available on Silverfast Ai v.6, but I was only given Kodak Q-60 Color Input Targets (IT8.7/2-1993 2005:02) with the scanner.

As such when i'm asked which IT8 reference files to select, although i'm given an Kodak option, I don't know which one to select. I've tried checking the Kodak website to no avail.

Can anyone help with this?

Ta loads,

Aileen

Dear Aileen

a target from LaserSoft Imaging with a bar code can be identified by SilverFast and the appropriate film will be downloaded from our website if an online connection exists and the files isn't already installed in your system.

If you don't have a reference file from LaserSoft Imaging with a bar code underneath the greyscale, SilverFast cannot automatically detect what reference will have to be used and present you with a dialogue asking for the file's location.

If you need to download this file, you probably will have to identify the target.
The following sample explanations on the naming conventions of the Kodak reference files will help you to look for the appropriate file to use:
E3199808 - on Ektachrome 3 film from 1998, August
R1200211 - Reflective target from 2002, November
E1200006 - on Ektachrome 1 film from 2000, June

So your target reference file will read:
something200502.txt
where "something" equals E1 for Ektachrome, E3 for Ektachrome 3 film material or R1/R2 for respective reflective targets.

You can download the file probably from > Download > IT8 reference files from our website.
If it happen not to be listed there, please follow the Kodak FTP server link. Kodak names the files differently with regard to the extension (.q60), but apart from the name they are unchanged text files.

Hope this helps

Best regards
Sonny Noack
- Manager Technical Support, LaserSoft Imaging AG -