Introducing the all-new
HD Apeiron/42
Contact-free art scanner delivers the market’s most life-like 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 42x60 in and 5.1 in height in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.
Applications
Accurate Colour Reproduction
Our contact-free large format scanner HD 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 originals, fabrics, and more.
This is especially suited for museums, copy shops, material and apparel manufacturers, and others, who now have a powerful new way to boost the quality of detailed and delicate originals with unprecedented color accuracy.
The Complete Package
- The clearance height of 10 inches (254 mm) and an optimal focus plane of up to 5.1 inches (130 mm) enables scanning of thicker media, such as framed artwork.
- Six premium cameras lenses and quad-linear Toshiba color CCDs capture all details in up to 1200 dpi optical resolution.
- The lamps in HD Apeiron/42 recreate the natural daylight spectrum using cutting-edge LEDs with TRI-R™ technology. This, plus the clever design of LED strips mounted in elliptical reflectors, results in correct and uniform colors – and no distance fading.
- Creating expressive shadows and highlights to add lifelike 3D surface sensations is also easy. HD Apeiron/42 offers four different lamp positions. The museum-correct light emits no UV/IR radiation.
- HD Apeiron/42 is the fastest contact-free large format scanner on the market. A flexible solution; it improves workflows while ensuring superior quality. The hardware is designed to support correct ergonomics for the operator; this includes an adjustable arm with a large 22” touchscreen.
- You can create unique closed loop calibration (CLC) media profiles for every printer, paper, and quality combination that you need. Find your supported large format printer here.
FIVE FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE
FADGI 4-stars
HD Apeiron/42 complies to FADGI with 4 stars - defined as the best imaging practical today
ISO 19264-1
This specification applies to scanners and digital cameras used for digitization of cultural heritage material, and HD Apeiron/42 complies
Maximum color rendering index (CRI)
HD Apeiron/42 produces a color rendering index above 98
Energy Star 3.0 certified
Like all other Contex large format scanners – HD Apeiron/42 is Energy Star 3.0 certified
Powered by X-Rite®
The ICC Color Management in Nextimage Apeiron software is powered by X-Rite®
Nextimage Apeiron
Dedicated Software for Art Scanning
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.
The result, Nextimage Apeiron, heightens the user-friendliness together with the adjustable touchscreen of HD Apeiron/42. The software aptly supports the unique way of working when using a contact-free scanner.
Technology
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.
ICC Profiles by X-Rite
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.
Multiple exposures per scan line
Contex scanners have the option to digitize each scan line multiple times which will reduce image noise even further. Scanning with minimum 4 exposures per scan line ensures FADGI compliance.
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.