Scan Prep Pro 3.1 Overview

ScanPrepPro 3.0 Smart Agent TM Image Processor Operator’s Overview ScanPrepPro is developed by ImageXpress Inc. 3545 Cruse Road • Suite 103 • Lawrenceville, GA 30244 • 770-564-9924 • 770-564-1632 (FAX) support@scanprep.com • http://www.scanprep.com Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop are Registered Trademarks of Adobe Systems. ScanPrepPro and ScanPrep Smart Agent are Registered Trademarks of ImageXpress Inc. 2 WHERE DID SCANPREPPRO COME FROM? I was one of those dauntless optimists that caught a vision early-on of what the Macintosh could mean to the publishing industry. I put my money on the counter the first time I saw the (128K) Mac back in February/March of 1984. My career, for the prior 20 years, had been in the printing industry. There was not a facet of it in which I hadn’t collected “hands-on” experience. Starting with what became known as “quick copy” and moving my way up into professional lithography, my thirst for personal development and my respect for the craft motivated me to learn everything I could about the printing industry. In 1972, I started a litho production company (halftones, color separations, stripping, composite film, and proofing). I spent twenty years in the industry as a cameraman, stripper, platemaker, pressman (I even spent a 6-month stint in the bindery). Putting images on paper was my career, I was hooked for life… I had dots in my veins. In 1984, I got a look at a “smiley-faced” 128K Mac and I knew somehow that this machine was going to impact the printing industry. I wanted to be part of the movement, so I put my money on the counter and bought the second Mac sold in middle Tennessee. My first experience with scanning with the Macintosh started early in 1985 with Thunderscan. I held a part-time job as Creative Director for a major audio equipment manufacturer in Nashville, Tennessee, and both art-directing photo sessions and producing ad layouts at the photo studio was “normal” procedure for me. Armed with my Mac, ImageWriter, and Thunderscan, I would set up shop in the studio and scan black and white “Polaroids” onto my Mac as the photographer set the lighting. By the time the photo shoot was finished, I had a final layout and was ready to produce the ad that evening. This kind of scanning was good for a rough comp, but a far cry from what I could use as commercial grade stuff. ScanPrepPro 3.0 Operator’s Overview My first experience with a desktop scanner was in March of 1986. At that time there was little or no 3 scanning software and absolutely no image processing software. Resolution choices were limited to “printer or screen” (whatever that meant), and image processing w…