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Alto Color Film Recorder
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Alto Color Film Recorder
The Alto film recorder is designed to meet the most critical color demands for presentation graphics, digital photo imaging, graphic arts, and scientific visualization applications that require high-quality images on negative or reversal film.

By combining an Alto with a personal computer, a color scanner, and image manipulation software, photographs can be digitally altered, retouched, and combined with other photos, text or graphic elements, and output to film to create a "second generation" original, which can be delivered as a finished product or used to create an enlargement.


Features:

  • Sophisticated color and image controls that allow you to fine-tune all aspects of color response. Exposure table control of intensity, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, and gamma.

  • Controls to customize the film recorder's image size, position, and rotation to precisely match specific needs.

  • High-speed production of transparencies: 30 seconds to process an image at 4K addressability.

  • Convenient design with color look-up tables for new film types, and new film emulsions can be downloaded via diskette.

  • Support of film types from Agfa and other film manufacturers.

  • Unique sealed optical system virtually eliminates the need to reshoot images due to dust on the CRT.

  • Easy to use: front panel with LCD display, LED status display, and push button menu system with user selected features.

  • Remote diagnostics capability to analyze problems and provide assistance directly over the telephone.

  • Compatible with Macintosh, PC, and UNIX workstations using a variety of software packages.

  • Included look-up table generator (LUTgen) software can be used to calibrate and fine-tune the film recorder output.


Image Quality:
35mm module
(3:2 aspect ratio)
2,048 x 1,366 pixels at 2K
4,096 x 2,732 pixels at 4K
8,192 x 5,464 pixels at 8K
120/220, 4 x 5", 8 x 10"
(4:3 aspect ration)
2,048 x 1,536 pixels at 2K
4,096 x 3,072 pixels at 2K
8,192 x 6,144 pixels at 8K
16,384 x 12,288 pixels at 16K


Product Specifications: Alto

Physical
Width: 15.0" (38.0 cm)
Height: 32.5" (82.5 cm)
Depth: 18.0" (45.5 cm)
Weight: 125 lbs. (56.8 kg)

Environment

Temperature:
10 degrees ‚ 40 degrees C (50 degrees ‚ 104 degrees F)

Relative Humidity:
25% ‚ 75%, non-condensing

Electrical Requirements:
110 ‚ 220V, 1A, 50 ‚ 60 Hz

Ease of use

Front Panel

Film Types
Alto supports film types from Agfa and other film manufacturers. Agfa's LUTGen (Look-Up Table Generator) software is used to calibrate the grayscale of each film type supported.

Color Control
Exposure Table Control of:

Image Quality
(horizontal / vertical resolution)

35mm module (3.2 aspect ratio):
2,048 x 1,366 pixels at 2K
4,096 x 2,732 pixels at 4K
8,192 x 5,464 pixels at 8K

120/220, 4 x 5" , 8 x 10" module (4.3 aspect ratio):
2,048 x 1,536 pixels at 2K
4,096 x 3,072 pixels at 4K
8,192 x 6,144 pixels at 8K
16,384 x 12,288 pixels at 16K
(12 Bits of color modulation per primary color)

Hardware Compatibility

Interfaces
SCSI: ANSI X3.131-1986
IEEE: 488-1978 (GPIB)
RS 232 for status, remote diagnostics, firmware upgrade and extended user features

Throughput
IEEE net Transfer rate: 300 KB/sec.
SCSI net transfer rate: 3 MB/sec.
Minimum time for imaging: 35mm slide at 4K resolution: 30 seconds
(Imaging time excludes rasterization time and is dependent on file size and workstation configuration)

PC environment
Compatible with all PC types supporting standard IEEE and SCSI
interfaces. Graphix Raster Plus or other third-party software
driver is required.

Macintosh environment
Compatible with all Macintosh and Power Macintosh models.
Agfa Python Software for PostScript imaging or Agfa
IMAGE Assist for non-PostScript imaging is required.

UNIX environment
Compatible with all UNIX workstations supporting standard IEEE and SCSI
interfaces such as SUN, SGI, IBM, and DEC. Caldera Cameleo or other
third-party software driver is required.

Available Film Transports
35mm 36 exposure cassette
35mm bulk loader, 750 exposure 100' pin registered
120/220 roll film
4 x 5" sheet film
8 x 10" sheet film
(Additional film transport formats are available from Oxbeiry)

Included Grayscale Calibration Software
Agfa's LUTGen (Look-Up Table Generator) grayscale calibration tool provides an environment to accurately match target densities. LUTGen allows users to calibrate the grayscale response of the film recorder's output by calculating the data, and also download and save the new color look-up tables.


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