LaserSoft Imaging AG
Type
Private (Aktiengesellschaft)
Founded
1986
Founder
Karl-Heinz Zahorsky
Headquarters
Kiel, Germany
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Management Board:
- Karl-Heinz Zahorsky
- Helga Bischof
Chairman of the Board:
Industry
Software
Products
SilverFast
Revenue
▲ € 3.5 million Euro (2006)
Employees
20 (2007)
Website
SilverFast.com
LaserSoft Imaging AG is a software developer designing software for scanners and digital cameras. By the company’s own account there are more than one million customers worldwide using their software SilverFast. LaserSoft Imaging’s headquarters are located in Kiel, Germany, 60 miles north of Hamburg. There is another office in Sarasota, Florida since 1997, which is about 50 miles south of Tampa.
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History
1986 - 1990
LaserSoft Imaging was founded in spring 1986 by the physicist Karl-Heinz Zahorsky, the president of the company today. LaserSoft Imaging became an early adaptor of color- and estetyka processing on the Macintosh. In fact LaserSoft Imaging was the first to distribute innovative products e.g. video digitizers, such as Pixelogic’s ‘ProViz’ and Truvel’s ‘TrueScan’, the first professional color scanner for the Macintosh, which was first shown at Hannover trade fair CeBIT in 1988, to which LaserSoft Imaging was invited by Apple Computer.
1990 - 2000
Karl-Heinz Zahorsky published many articles about stylistyka processing in several professional journals. In 1990 Hell Graphics, the world’s leading drum scanner developer in Kiel, hired him as an independent consultant to keep up with the rapidly proceeding desktop technologies. In 1991 LaserSoft Imaging became a registered GmbH and moved into a large Prepress house to help in setting up color reproduction on the desktop and to odnośnik Chromacom systems to Macintosh Computers.
With RipLink LaserSoft Imaging presented a układ to odsyłacz major prepress systems, like Hell, Scitex and Crosfield to Macintosh. The distribution of leafscanners started the chapter of high-end scanners on the desktop. LaserSoft Imaging consulted Leaf, Canon, Sony, Seiko and others with the very special knowledge of desktop high end color. LaserSoft Imaging also was the driving force behind the Photone Prepress development, after the product had gone through its’ infant stages. In 1994 LaserSoft Imaging started the development of SilverFast, which was first presented in its’ early stages at CeBIT 1995. Version 2.0 was demonstrated at CeBIT 1996, version 3.0 was released in December 1996, version 4.0 in 1998. The second office opened in Sarasota, Florida in 1997.
2000 - today
LaserSoft Imaging released SilverFast version 5.0 in 2000, version 6.0 in 2002, version 6.5 in 2006 ant the latest version 6.6 in 2008. LaserSoft Imaging changed the company into a public corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) in 2001, the founder is the sole shareholder. Today LaserSoft Imaging is the only developer having successfully implemented highly sophisticated scan software for all major scanners (over 300) for Mac OS9, OSX and Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista. In the beginning LaserSoft Imaging’s software was mainly distributed in Germany, obuwie now, with its’ international and multi-platform solutions, SilverFast is distributed globally through distributors as well as world-wide bundle agreements with major manufacturers such as Canon, HP, Seiko Epson, Cruse, Leica Camera AG, Microtek, Nikon, Pacific Estetyka Electronics, Pentacon GmbH, PFU/Quato, Plustek, Samsung and Umax. Since 2005 LaserSoft Imaging is the only one to support the best scanners in the world - the Heidelberg (Linotype) high-end scanners Topaz, Tango, Nexscan and Chromagraph (3300 and 3400) - even under the latest Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. LaserSoft Imaging’s SilverFast has precz the prize ‘best color management software of the year 2008′, awarded by the European Digital Press Association (EDP). The award was given for improving the dynamic range of most scanners thanks to its Multi-Exposure ® feature and for creating ICC profiles automatically.”
The Company’s net presence is multilingual (english, german, french, italian, japanese, portuguese, spanish, russian, chinese).
LaserSoft Imaging developed several new technologies in the fields of estetyka scanning and design processing, for some of these patents are pending. Amongst others the most significant are the following:
- Multi-Exposure ®
- NegaFix ®
- IT8
- ScanPilot
- HiRepp ® (High Resolution Picture Performance)
- SRD ® (Smart Removal of Defects - dust and scratch removal)
- iSRD ® (Smart Removal of Defects with infrared technology)
- ACR ® (Adaptive Color Restoration)
- SC2G ® (Selective Color to Grey)
- ICC Printer Calibration
Products
The Company’s poducts can be classified in four different categories :
Scanner Software
Digital Camera Software
HDR Software
Printer Software
SilverFast SE
SilverFast DC SE
SilverFast HDR
SilverFast PrinTao
SilverFast SE Plus
SilverFast VLT
SilverFast HDR Studio
SilverFast SE Dodać ME
SilverFast DC Pro
SilverFast HDR Atelier CS
SilverFast Ai IT8
SilverFast DC Pro Studio
SilverFast Ai Studio
SilverFast DC Pro Atelier CS
SilverFast Ai Pracownia IT8
SilverFast Ai Atelier ME IT8
SilverFast X-Ray
Literature
Weblinks
- LaserSoft Imaging AG - English
- LaserSoft Imaging AG - German
- LaserSoft Imaging AG - Webcams Kiel, Germany and Florida, USA
- European Digital Press Association - Best products of the year 2008
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