RE: Heidelberg A3 Scanners
RE: Heidelberg A3 Scanners
- Subject: RE: Heidelberg A3 Scanners
- From: "Broudy, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:19:25 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
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From: neil snape [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:25 AM
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To: Broudy, David
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Cc: list
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Subject: Re: Heidelberg A3 Scanners
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Yes this is surely the default sharpening settings. The
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Nexscan has a lot
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more adjacent pixel contrast definition and a 16bit DSP so it
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maintains
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better contones. This problem of sharpening was a problem
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that Heidelberg
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should have looked at and corrected from the start. In no way
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should it be
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left up to the user especially on demonstration / evaluation
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to figure out.
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Many sales could have been lost to clients as yourself for
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this very reason.
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> I don't expect a scanner costing 1/4 the price of a Nexscan
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to give me
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> Nexscan quality, but I wasn't prepared for 1/4 of the quality ;)
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Absolutely. They should have presented these scanners with
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more attention
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to the details on how to get the most from them.
I wish I'd know this about six months ago when we could have bought a lot of
2650s for cheap when Heidelberg was having a fire sale to unload their
scanner inventory. unfortunately the thing landed on the loading dock and
nobody from Heidelberg apprised me of this peculiarity before I started my
eval. their loss, I suppose.
--
David Broudy
Jostens R&D
11300 Rupp Drive
Burnsville, MN 55337
952.882.3617
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