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FotoColor Film Recorder
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FotoColor Film Recorder
FotoColor provides minilab and graphics professionals with a winning combination of excellent quality, fast throughput, and expansion opportunities for high-quality slide and negative output in 35mm format.

FotoColor includes Agfa's XCS-36 Color Support System, which provides highly accurate color tonality and extremely smooth color gradations. Image quality is raised even further by sophisticated brightness and contrast controls, an improved method for setting grayscale densities, and a pacing function that eliminates imaging artifacts. With FotoColor, high-quality output is accompanied by high performance: a 35mm slide at 4K resolution is recorded in less than 60 seconds. A 2K resolution output can also be selected to reduce recording speed to 30 seconds per slide.

When used with Agfa's Python software RIP, FotoColor becomes a PostScript film recorder, capable of imaging from any workstation producing PostScript output. It can also be combined with Agfa IMAGE Assist software for non-PostScript output. These expanded capabilities make FotoColor suitable for a wide range of professional slidemaking, photographic, and graphic arts applications.

FotoColor is compatible with PC, UNIX, and Macintosh workstations--as well as a full range of software.


Features:

  • Agfa's XCS-36 Color Support System provides highly accurate color tonality and smooth color gradations.

  • Gray-balance calibration and fine-tuning using external PC and Mac-based LUTGen software utility.

  • Exposure control of brightness (RGB channels) and contrast (RGB channels).

  • Push-button menu system with user-selectable features.

  • Look-up table generator (LUTgen) software is included for calibrating and fine-tuning the film recorder output.

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


Product Specifications: FotoColor

Physical Dimensions
Width: 10.0" (25.5 cm)
Height: 14" (35.5 cm)
Depth: 20" (50.8 cm)

Environment
Temperature:
15 degrees - 30 degrees C (59 degrees - 86 degrees F)

Relative Humidity:
35% - 65%, non-condensing

Electrical Requirements:
110 - 240V, 0.5A, 47 - 63 Hz

Ease of use
Front Panel

Film Types
FotoColor supports film types from Agfa and other film manufacturers.
Standard, default film types supported are:

Included look-up table generator (LUTGen) software can be used
to calibrate and fine-tune the film recorder output. Look-up
tables for different film types can be downloaded and stored
using the LUTGen software utility.

Available Film Transports
35mm 36-exposure cassette

Color
36-bit per pixel
16.8 million colors per image
(from a 68 billion color palette)

Color Control
Exposure control of:

Gray-balance calibration and fine-tuning using external
PC and Mac-based LUTGen software utility.

Image Quality
2,048 x 1,366 pixels at 2K mode
4,096 x 2,732 pixels at 4K mode

Hardware Compatibility
Interface
SCSI: ANSI X3.131-1986
IEEE: 488-1978 (GPIB)

Throughput
IEEE net Transfer rate: up to 600 KB/sec.
SCSI net transfer rate: up to 3 MB/sec.

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
SCSI interfaces such as SUN, SGI, IBM, and Digital.
Caldera Cameleo or other third-party software driver
is required.


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