HD Apeiron/42 scans fine art and artwork, fabric and apparel, interior design materials, as well as various types of delicate documents and other media.

Scroll down to see how scanning with HD Apeiron/42 results in high-quality images with extremely life-like surface sensations.

 Key features

• Scan sizes up to 42 x 60 x 5.1″
• Versatile 3D surface effect, including four options for different angles of lighting
• Up to 1200 dpi high optical resolution
• Complies with FADGI (4 stars) and ISO 19264-1
• Energy Star 3.0 certified
• ICC Color Management is powered by X-Rite®

HD Apeiron/42 lets you choose between optimizing your scan result for speed or quality.

Images scanned with ‘Optimize for quality’ are scanned with multiple exposures per scan line to improve the noise reduction even further. This enhances the color depth, improves the overall image quality, and lets the image comply with various image quality standards, such as FADGI**** (4 stars) and ISO 19264-1, if exposures per scan line is set to 4 or above.

See how different the same scan looks whether you set the 3D surface effect to zero (left) or all the way up to +100 (right):

Contex’ well-known expertise in calibration and stitching is as present in HD Apeiron/42 as in any of our scanners.

HD Apeiron/42 live-stitches its six cameras using five FDA approved lasers to ensure a 100% correct live stitching result. The cameras consist of premium camera lenses and quad-linear Toshiba color CCDs.

No matter if you choose to include the 3D effect or not, your end result is influenced by how you position the two lamps, and thereby the angles of how the light hits your original during scanning.

The four options for lighting are made possible by the easily accessible levers on each side of the scan module moving the two adjustable lamps. Each lamp is with dual LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors. LED spectrums are 2,700K/ 5,000K/, 6,500K and the museum-correct light with no UV/IR radiation uniformly illuminates in all three dimensions, while the scan module shields off ambient light.

The ‘Illumination’ setting in the software indicates where and how much the highlights and shadows will affect the result – depending on how you position the lamps:

Instant highlight and shadows effect

Even without the 3D effect enabled, you can get a subtle shadow and highlight effect by scanning your original with the left lamp in the ‘up’ position, and the right lamp in the ‘down’ position. This gives the image an instant look as if being lit from above.

Here it’s a small section of the blue and yellow test painting, scanned in 600 dpi with the lamps set that way (up/down):

Uniform light across the entire scan line

Just as you can emphasize shadows and highlights, it is also possible to minimize undesirable effects, as seen in this example with a watercolor where the badly prepped paper warps and buckles.

Right out of the scanner, with no post-editing at all, the image shows almost no differences in the white areas of the paper, despite the warping edges. By adjusting the 3D values you change how much light from which lamp is used in the final image – the higher the value, the bigger the highlight/shadow effect. Which number to end up with is often a matter of personal preference.

Left: 0, middle: +50, right: +100. Both lamps are set in the ‘down’ position:

The award-winning large format scanning software Nextimage is the base of Nextimage Apeiron software specially developed for the HD Apeiron/42 scanner.

Pre scanning

• Choose between presets or make and save your own
• Change parameters, if needed
• Position table and focus plane

Post scanning options

• Adjust levels and other parameters after scanning, if needed
• Adjust 3D effect after scanning, if activated