Pixel Perfect (Test Projects 2002-2003)

Pixel Perfect I was the first in a series of scanner tests, a cooperation between the Scandinavian trade magazine AGI and Seybold Publications. The scanners tested were the Agfa T5000, the Fuji Lanovia C-550, the Heidelberg Prepress QuickStep, the Heidelberg Prepress Topaz, the Imacon Flextight, the Purup-Eskofot EskoScan 1318, the ScanView F8 Plus, the Scitex EverSmart Pro and the Screen Cézanne.

Before this test we had actually already tested a special type of new scanners, copydot scanners. This technology was primarily used in the newspaper industry, but could be used in any application where existing repro film needed digitising. The report was called Digital Dots – from Capture to Print, and you can see where we got the idea for the company we started a couple of years later, when we started to work independently of AGI and Seybold. The copydot report was published in 1998.

The Pixel Perfect Special from 2002 was a follow-up scanner test project where the Creo Eversmart Select and Eversmart Jazz+ were also tested.

Pixel Perfect III was a digital camera test done in 2003 where the Creo Leaf Volare 11, the Kodak DCS Proback 645H, the Phase One H10, the H20 and the H101 as well as the Sinarback 54H were tested.

The first two reports are unfortunately not available as PDFs – this was before PDF became the de facto file format for digitally transmitted artwork. But the two later reports are available for download below.

The Pixel Perfect Special (2002)

Pixel Perfect III (2003)