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.
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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.
Scanning details:
Oil, spatula on canvas
This oil painting is scanned with the ‘Optimize for quality’ set to 4 exposures per scan line, a part of the FADGI 4-star preset. The 3D surface effect is set to +100, clearly showcasing both highlights and shadows stemming from the oil paint spatula strokes.
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Acrylic on canvas
This test painting allows you see how well various parts of an uneven surface show up in a scanning with 3D surface effects enabled.
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Oil pastels, charcoal and pencil on paper
Even the smallest raised or indented stroke in this drawing is fully saved for the future with a scanning with HD Apeiron/42.
Zoom in to see how the scanning with multiple exposures has kept all the lifelike details.
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Embroidery
Notice how the embroidery stitches stand out and the craftmanship comes to life with the multiple exposure scanning and 3D surface effect.
The multiple exposures add color depth to every single stich.
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The HD Apeiron/42 3D surface effect adds lifelike surface sensations to both canvas texture and paint strokes. Your images will appear as if hanging on an exhibition wall and lit from above – both online and in print.
Scanning details:
Acrylic with glossy medium on canvas
This test painting has thick layers of acrylic paint on a very coarse canvas. The black acrylic paint is mixed with a glossy medium which enhances the natural sheen and luminosity of the color but also makes it susceptible to reflections.
Notice how HD Apeiron/42 handles both black and reflections seamlessly.
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Acrylic paint and black fineliner pens added to a digital image printed on canvas by a large format printer
‘Cups’ are printed on a very fine type of canvas. With no 3D surface effect added, you get a very smooth looking surface, appearing almost flat. Adding 3D surface effect lets the added strokes of paint on the edge of the cup stand out, as well as adding life to the solid colored yellow background.
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Watercolor on paper
The difference in these two extreme levels of zero and maximum 3D surface effect is clearly noticeable on the special texture of watercolor paper. Also, any warping or wobbling paper edges are almost entirely eliminated when scanning with HD Apeiron/42 – regardless of the level of 3D surface effect. See more in the Illumination section below.
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Embroidered fabric
This piece of embroidered fabric is once again an example of how much life the 3D surface effect can put into an otherwise flat-looking material.
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Medicine package
Manufacturers of any type of packaging material that requires braille embossed into the cardboard can scan and archive legible image files for documentation – even in only 300 dpi as this one.
Maximum 3D surface effect makes it possible.
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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 Fujifilm lenses and quad-linear Toshiba color CCDs.
Scanning details:
Fineliners on paper lined on cardboard, textile edges
Due to the size (28 x 36 in / 715 x 914 mm) this map uses all 6 cameras and 5 lasers to scan and stitch the image.
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Print on paper
When an original like this flat, printed map is even the slightest wrinkled or has wavy edges, it can be hard to scan but the ‘Uneven surface’ setting ensures correct stitching.
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Scanning seemingly black and white originals in color is known to add life to the resulting image. Opting for a slight 3D effect also produces a sensation of depth in the material.
Scanning details:
Fineliner on paper
While the many pen strokes add 3D-like sensations to the strands of hair in this drawing, the 3D effect in HD Apeiron/42 also adds 3D effect to the paper.
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One-color etching
The 3D effect is very noticeable in this scanning of an original where the passepartout clearly casts a downward shadow.
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Because HD Apeiron/42 has four options for different angles of lighting, it is always possible to find a lamp position that allows shiny or partly shiny originals to scan with all details showing.
American silver dollar
Maximum 3D effect lets the relief on any coin stand out perfectly and show any letters legible.
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Silver and gold porcelain dish
Notice how the different lamp positions change how the metallic strokes look – no 3D effect is used.
More about lamp positions in the ‘Illumination’ section below.
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Our 'Art digitization' brochure covers all you need to know about HD Apeiron/42 contact-free scanner and its unparalleled compliance.
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:
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):
Artwork test scan with HD Apeiron/42
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.
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