1450: comparison of Silverfast with Linotype software output
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 5:22 pm
i have been trying out Silverfast with my 1450 firewire in OSX in last few days, and decided to do a straight photo test comparison with a scan done with my old linotype software working in 9.2.2. Guess what, the silverfast has not produced quite as nice a result! Despite a lot of tweaking with the Silverfast controls, the colours produced by my printer look a little flat and muted! Maybe one loses something by not going through Twain; i don't know. It is frustrating and a little dissapointing, and after all we are only considering the change from the old software because of the pain of going back into 9.2.2 to do a scan.
I just hoped Silverfast would have been a bigger jump forward; instead it has created a hesitation in me making the purchase. I agree that the controls seem more extensive than linotype's, though with the latter I did not need so many or to mess around so much because the first results were usually good enough.
Any thoughts from the tech gurus as to whether this is a feature of your software that i have to accept, or is practice going to make things better? There may be something you could copy from Linotype to further refine your own product in the future. robert
I just hoped Silverfast would have been a bigger jump forward; instead it has created a hesitation in me making the purchase. I agree that the controls seem more extensive than linotype's, though with the latter I did not need so many or to mess around so much because the first results were usually good enough.
Any thoughts from the tech gurus as to whether this is a feature of your software that i have to accept, or is practice going to make things better? There may be something you could copy from Linotype to further refine your own product in the future. robert