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HD Apeiron/42
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Contact-free art scanner delivers the market’s most lifelike results
HD Apeiron/42 is a flexible scanner with natural light LEDs that do not compromise on scan quality and reliability when digitizing original artwork and fine art.
Perfect for: Fine art, artwork, artifacts, posters and prints, building materials, textiles, delicate documents, and much more.
CONTACT-FREE SCANNING
Scan your priceless originals without the face of the media touching the scanner.
TRUST AND COMPLIANCE
FADGI **** and ISO 19264-1 compliant.
Color rendering index (CRI) level >98.
No IR/UV radiation.
LARGE FORMAT IN MAXIMUM QUALITY
Scans up to 42×60 in and 5.1 in height in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.
Our contact-free art scanner Apeiron/42 uses unparalleled technology to accurately digitize media. With the market’s most realistic image quality, full light control and a unique ability to emphasize details, the scanner is ideal for fine art, fragile artifacts and more.
This is especially suited for museums, copy shops, material manufacturers, and others, who now have a powerful new way to boost the quality of detailed and delicate originals with unprecedented accuracy.
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COMPLIANCE YOU’LL LIKE
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FADGI ****HD Apeiron/42 complies to FADGI with 4 stars – defined as the best imaging practical today |
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ISO 19264-1This specification applies to scanners and digital cameras used for digitization of cultural heritage material, and HD Apeiron/42 complies |
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Maximum color rendering index (CRI)HD Apeiron/42 produces a color rencering index above 98 |
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Energy Star 3.0 certifiedLike all other Contex large format scanners – HD Apeiron/42 is Energy Star 3.0 certified. |
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Powered by X-Rite®The ICC Color Management in Nextimage Apeiron software is made with X-Rite® color profiling. |
Perfect for
HD Apeiron/42’s contact-free scanning process with full light control and no UV/IR radiation makes it the first choice when your job is to safely scan large format fine art, delicate documents, and artwork without the risk of wear and tear. Or when you need to emphasize the unique surface details of building materials and textiles, for example, online or in print.
Dedicated software for contact-free scanning included
The software for HD Apeiron/42 is built on Nextimage, our award-winning software known for its complete set of tools, filters and automated processes for scanning large format originals.
- Nextimage Apeiron is part of the purchase of HD Apeiron/42
- ICC color management (powered by X-Rite®)
- FADGI**** and ISO 19264-1 compliant
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- Operate the entire scan process directly from the built-in controller
Scan delicate originals by placing them gently on the glass plate.
CCD
Contex uses All-Digital cameras with advanced point-of-origin capture and onboard digital conversion ensuring minimum noise and an extended dynamic range. The unique four-linear CCD technology, with a special panchromatic line, ensures that no colors are lost when scanning monochrome. Quality colormatched LED lighting ensures the market’s highest standards for color correctness.
Fujifilm lenses – a Contex CCD Technology
Like photography, scanned image quality depends heavily on lens quality. Using lenses that are specifically designed for the scanning resolution will ensure against various problems, from uneven sharpness to chromatic errors and color fringing (black lines showing up in color). All Contex CCD scanners use high quality custom Fujifilm lenses to give you the best possible output.
X-Rite ICC profiles
Using X-Rite generated profiles ensures the highest possible color accuracy for demanding customers. X-Rite is the global leader in color science and technology.
Table conveyance system
The table of HD Apeiron/42 is moved by a precision timing belt transmission. Together with precise and extremely wear resistant support rollers on each side of the table, this forms our stable triple-point direction control system – a Contex technology.
HD Apeiron/42 lamp and light technologies
Dual LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors result in correct and uniform colors – and no distance fading. The museum-correct light with no UV/IR radiation uniformly illuminates in all three dimensions, while the scan module shields off ambient light.
We use LEDs with TRI-R technology. The combination of cutting-edge LED technology and phosphor (patented technology) recreates the natural light spectrum.
Adobe RGB, Device RGB and sRGB
Contex CCD scanners have several different options for color space. In addition to the common sRGB our large format scanners also offers color spaces with a wider gamut as preferred by color specialists. Adobe RGB and Device RGB has a larger color gamut than sRGB. This allows differences in very bright and saturated colors to be maintained in your digital file.
Gigabit Ethernet xDTR2.5
Optimized for up to 100 MB per second. Up to 60% faster transfer rate than with xDTR2 thanks to new improved electronics.
USB 3.0 SuperSpeed xDTR3
We have adapted our xDTR technology to work with the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed protocol increasing its performance dramatically. It has the fastest data transfer rate of any scanner on the market.
Gbit throttling buffer control
1GB buffer eliminates scanner pausing. Maintain your scan speeds and meet those deadlines
ALE
Accuracy Lens Enhancement (ALE) technology that electronically maintains 0.1% +- pixel precision across any two points of the scan line thus exceeding even the most rigid requirements in the industry today. Contex delivers a very high grade of precision stability in the scanned image.
AccuColor
To get the best results, your scanner and software should work with full 48-bit data. Where other scanners ignore some of this data, newer Contex scanners work with true 48-bit color capture.
COMPATIBILITY
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Nextimage Apeiron software included |
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Windows OS |
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All leading large format printer brands |
Specifications
| Maximum Scan Height / Maximum Focal Plane Above Table | 5.1 inch (130 mm) |
| Maximum Media Length | 64 inch (1625 mm) |
| Table conveyance system | Precision timing belt transmission with triple-point direction control system |
| Lamp angles | Four options for different angles of lighting |
| Lamp specifications | No UV/IR radiation. No warm up time. Lifetime = scanner lifetime. LED spectrums: 2,700K/ 5,000K/, 6,500K |
| 3D effect | Yes. Post-scanning option in the software to slide for desired 3D effect |
| Technology | CCD |
| Maximum Resolution (interpolated) | 9600 dpi |
| Optical Resolution | 1200 dpi |
| Maximum Scan Width | 42 inch (1067 mm) |
| Maximum Media Width | 43.8 inch (1113 mm) |
| Maximum Media Thickness | 10 inch (254 mm) |
| Accuracy | 0.1% +/- 1 pixel |
| Power Consumption | Ready (standby): 36W. Sleep: 1.3W. Scan: 76W (Energy Star 3.0 compliant) |
| File formats | TIF, JPG, PDF, PDF/A, DWF, CALS, BMP, JPEG-2000(JP2), JPEG2000 Extended(JPX), TIF-G3, TIF-G4, others |
| Operating System | Windows 11 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit |
| Energy Star Compliant | Yes, version 3.0 |
| CCD cameras | 6 CCD cameras with Fujufilm lenses and quad-linear Toshiba CCDs (RGB and gray) |
| Depth of focus | +/- 10 mm (at 300 dpi) |
| Total number of pixels | 256,320 pixels |
| Country of origin | Designed and engineered in Denmark. Manufactured in China. |
| Certifications/compliance | FADGI **** (4 stars), CRI level >98, ISO 19264-1:2021 compliant |
| Power supply | 110 V / 230 V / 240 V, 60/50 Hz |
| Weight | Approx 412 lbs (187 kg) – no professional movers required |
| 300 dpi | 6 ips color scan speed |
| Recommended PC (not included) | 2.4 GHz processor, 8 cores (16 logical processors) or better 64-bit processors, 32 GB RAM and SSD SATA drive |
| Maximum Scan Length | 60 inch (1524 mm) |
| Included software | Nextimage Apeiron |
| Connectivity | Min. USB 3.0 SuperSpeed or Gigabit Ethernet |
