industry software founded 1986 founder karl heinz zahorsky headquarters germany kiel area served worldwide key people karl heinz zahorsky owner manager helga bischof manager dr. von hacht chairman of the board philipp haarl nder director marketing products silverfast number of employees 30 2012 website silverfast.com lasersoft imaging ag is a software developer designing software such as silverfast for scanners and digital cameras . the company s headquarters are located in kiel germany 100 kilometres 62 mi north of hamburg and another office in sarasota florida united states . contents 1 history 1.1 1986 1990 1.2 1990 2000 1.3 2000 2010 1.4 2010 today 2 products 3 literature 4 references 5 external links history edit 1986 1990 edit lasersoft imaging was founded in spring 1986 by the physicist karl heinz zahorsky the president of the company today . lasersoft imaging became an early adopter of color and image processing on the macintosh . it was the first company to distribute 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 . 1 1990 2000 edit karl heinz zahorsky published many articles about image 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 link chromacom systems to macintosh computers . with riplink lasersoft imaging presented a system to link 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 regarding desktop high end color . lasersoft imaging also was involved in the development of the photone prepress 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 2 in 1998 . the second office opened in sarasota florida in 1997 . 2000 2010 edit 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 has implemented scan software for over 300 scanners for mac os 9 mac os x and microsoft windows 98 2000 xp vista . in the beginning lasersoft imaging s software was mainly distributed in germany but now with its international and multi platform solutions silverfast is distributed globally through distributors as well as world wide bundle agreements with manufacturers such as canon hp seiko epson cruse leica camera ag microtek nikon pacific image electronics pentacon gmbh pfu quato plustek samsung and umax . the company also supports high end scanners such as the heidelberg linotype topaz tango nexscan and chromagraph 3300 and 3400 . lasersoft imaging s silverfast was awarded best color management software of the year 2008 by the european digital press association edp . the award was given for improving the dynamic range of most scanners with its multi exposure feature and for automatic creation of icc profiles . the fogra came to a similar conclusion after testing lasersoft imaging s it8 targets 3 and silverfast s colour management system 4 in 2009 by attesting full conformity to the strict iso norm 12641 . the hdri raw data format was also developed in 2009 . by adding the raw data of the infrared channel to the usual raw data it contains any readable image information for later post processing . 5 2010 today edit silverfast version 8.0 was released in fall 2011 featuring a software wizard that guides the user through all processing steps required for their workflow . it is capable of multitasking and runs on windows and mac os x platforms . version 8 of silverfast hdr studio was subsequently released in 2012 . products edit the company s products can be classified in four different categories silverfast se ai ai studio scanner software silverfast dc se dc pro dc pro studio digital camera software silverfast hdr hdr studio 48 bit image processing software silverfast archive suite archive suite se archiving solution with color management system silverfast printtao printer software see also silverfast lasersoft imaging is also manufacturing reflective and transparent it8 targets kodachrome targets since 2008 . literature edit taz tally ph.d. silverfast the official guide . sybex 2003 . isbn 978 0 7821 4197 9 taz tally ph.d. silverfast das offizielle buch . mitp verlag 2004 . isbn 978 3 8266 1521 4 sascha steinhoff scanning negatives and slides digitizing your photographic archive rocky nook 2007 . isbn 978 1 933952 01 7 references edit aboutus.org company profile for lasersoft imaging flatbed scanner review.org review of silverfast 4.0 fogra conformance check of lasersoft imaging s it8 targets in regard to iso it8 standard . pdf fogra color accuracy assessment of the silverfast scanner software after color calibration with lasersoft imaging s it8 targets . pdf it enquierer.com article on hrdi and isrd external links edit lasersoft imaging ag english lasersoft imaging ag german european digital press association best products of the year 2008 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lasersoft imaging & oldid 718724502 categories software companies of germanyprivately held companies of germany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 5 may 2016 at 06 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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