binuscan ColorPro
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Introduction to binuscan ColorPro and binuscan IPM, the Image Processing Machine
Have you ever dreamed of having an employee who would perform all the tedious parts of the job while you concentrate on designing the scene? And more, even while you've got your back turned? Now honestly, if you did find such a rarity, how often did you think you'd be better off with a machine? Here's the machine — at least for digital image production.
In the beginning, back in 1992, binuscan was a plug-in and a set of separation tables for Adobe Photoshop. It already delivered outstanding quality color separations, but not productivity. The user was forced to watch the progression window while each individual image was being filtered. Mode changes to CMYK, since both operations weren't chained, meant watching the progression window again, then saving (another look at another progression window)... plus resizing, cropping, resampling: more progression windows and lots of time wasted.
Major product developments were driven by newspaper and high quality magazine demand. But it was unconceivable that people who deal with so many images spend their time in front of Photoshop "thermometers". In a production environment, this was out of common sense. At that point, binuscan made a radical change in its philosophy. The goal had been ultimate quality to which was added productivity.
binuscan ColorPro became a stand-alone product combining quality, productivity and consistent output required for large number prints.
Not only is a manual workflow already outdated, but it became utterly obsolete with the introduction of binuscan ColorPro's QuarkXPress XTension, binuscan JobManager. Even for our entry-level products, everything is done automatically, in the background, using the processor only when it's free so it never slows you down.
In 1995 binuscan started to market PC versions of its software products. The PC developments have reached a state of full compatibility with Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT platforms.
Year after year, version after version, binuscan ColorPro grew to accomodate more features and functionalities, always with the same goal: automate the tasks of image processing while promoting ease of use. In 1996 binuscan extended this concept even further and re-designed the entire user interface into a clien/server solution, at the core of which stands the binuscan Image Processing Machine, known as binuscan IPM.
The IPM requires no endless installation procedure, no complicated setup, no parameters to enter: just double-click on it and it's up and running, waiting for you to feed it images. Once you've become accustomed to it and want to personnalize it, it can be customized to suit your particular production environment.
Its versatility allows you to use it for almost every operation you need to perform on your image files. From resampling to color correction, CMYK separation, and JPEG compression. While it is possible to perform these functions manually, in a production environment handling hundreds of images a day this manual correction becomes a major bottleneck. Here are a few of the tasks binuscan ColorPro will perform for you:
