Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Professional output from Ray Tracing - Can it be done? Keywords: ray trace output Message-ID: <655@madnix.UUCP> Date: 10 May 89 13:37:45 GMT References: <1312@raybed2.UUCP> Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Organization: ASDG Incorporated Lines: 56 In article <1312@raybed2.UUCP> crb@raybed2.UUCP (CHRIS BURTTON) writes: > Can the output from any of the ray trace programs, such as > Turbo Silver or Scuplt 3D, be sent to a professional offset > printer? If so, can the resolution be increased beyond the > Amiga screen resolution? ASDG has a product which is almost never discussed here on UseNet. It's called Professional ScanLab(TM). Professional ScanLab is a hardware and software combination which allows the Amiga personal computer to control a Sharp JX series 24 bit color scanner and perform super high precision operations upon such data like four color process separations. Professional ScanLab will manipulate images as large as 5000 x 3000 (approximately) and performs all operations at the 24 bit level (other operations include global color balancing, size reductions, color conversions). The quality of our 24 bit color separations has been judged by others to be the best available on any small computer. This has been a point of pride for those in the Amiga market, since this fact gives the Amiga a slight advantage over the MacII in color publishing. Oh, did I mention that on an A2500, our color separations take place about 6 times faster than an inferior sep done on a MacII? We have a utility which will convert 24 bit Sculpt 4D files into our 24 bit format (24 bit IFF, many newcomers to the Amiga 24 bit scene are adopting our standard). Then, these files can be manipulated by Professional ScanLab as if they were scanned. This includes the ability to perform color balancing and color separations at the 24 bit level. Another new ASDG product, called ASDG-ReSEP (or ReSEP for short) allows Gold Disk's Professional Page to utilize 24 bit color separations produced by Pro ScanLab. As you know, ProPage can only produce (or deal with) 12 bit separatios. Using ReSEP, pages can be composited with ProPage and then merged with 24 bit separations done with ProScanLab. ReSEP allows the Amiga to automatically (and internally) perform the function of a ``stripper'' who would otherwise have to perform this task by hand if you wanted professional quality output from ProPage. Check out issue V1.5 of AmigoTimes. Everything (everything) that is not an ad and is not a screen shot is a 24 bit print. This includes ALL of the Sculpt output. AmigoTimes has had our equipment for about a month now and is still getting better at using it, but I think you'll agree that this issue is the best looking magazine ever produced entirely on the Amiga personal computer. Perry -- Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. ARPA: madnix!perry@cs.wisc.edu {uunet|ncoast}!marque! UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry CIS: 76004,1765 (what was that about ``giggling teenagers''?)