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2. What is RepliDot? RepliDot 1.1 is a complete copydot scanning solution and a groundbreaking Adobe® Photoshop® Plug-In® that converts traditional halftone separation films into high-quality digital bitmap files for integration in today’s all-digital workflow, such as Computer-to-Plate technology, and other similar workflows. Scan, Convert, and Align your four separation films in moments with RepliDot 1.1! It’s exactly what the copydot industry has been missing!

3. Why RepliDot? Scanning Separations on your own scanner and losing major highlight and shadow information Buying dedicated scanners with special software Creating proofs from film separations for further rescanning With the move to Computer-to-Plate technology, the need for a reliable copydot scanning solution has emerged. Publishers with incoming film-furnished advertisements can now openly accept a wider variety of jobs than ever before. Therefore, you will nevermore be limited by:

4. Why RepliDot? RepliDot 1.1 offers a true Copydot scanning solution with the simplest integration. RepliDot’s competition is 10 times more expensive and requires investing into new scanners and new hardware. RepliDot has 2 built-in technologies, Digital Descreening and Dot2Dot, which give huge control over quality and results. No need for special scanners, and no need for special software. It is an Adobe Photoshop Plug-in which allows you to copydot your films into a DCS image at a glance.

5. How does RepliDot work? It’s all done in a breeze with the help of RepliDot’s user-friendly interface. Simply define your objectives, and let RepliDot do the rest! Still not convinced? Follow us while we explain the six steps of the RepliDot procedure.

6. Halftone Separations Step One: Gather your cumbersome CMYK halftone separation films…

7. Separation Scanning Step Two: Place them on any transparency scanner, and scan each individual film in 8-bit Grayscale mode

8. Calibration Step Three: Calibrate to create adaptive and corrective threshold tables to capture exact dot densities when processing your images. With your choice of either Automatic, or Manual Calibration, you are guaranteed to find just the right method of Calibration that suits your output requirements.

9. Dot2Dot Conversion Step Four (Method 1): RepliDot allows you to completely convert a scanned halftone film into a high-quality bitmap digital file taking into account the smoothness of vignettes and the sharpness of text. Your Grayscale to Bitmap conversion will simply stun you with the accuracy and precision of the output file, thanks to RepliDot’s Advanced Adaptive Threshold Technology.

10. Digital Descreening for Optimum Speed & Flexibility Step Four (Method 2): Through the use of advanced algorithms, RepliDot's Digital Descreening feature reproduces a screened film, leaving you with an editable digital image in a continuous shade. If you need to make last minute changes to the Copydot file, RepliDot’s Digital Descreening is the your best pick.

11. Automatic Registration of Digital Separations Step Five: Registering films has never been so easy with the RepliDot Merge feature. The Digital Film Alignment process uses the four converted digital separation files to create a DCS set of files known as a Copydot file.

12. This Copydot file consists of: Corresponding aligned C,M,Y,K files, ready for output Automatic Registration of Digital Separations Or A composite EPS file representing the four superimposed Grayscale (descreened) separations An EPS preview of the four Bitmap separations superimposed

13. All this can be easily placed in the desired page-layout software to be used in your full-digital workflow. Automatic Registration of Digital Separations

14. Step Six: Sit back and smile while RepliDot does what you require. Your resulting digital separations in perfect registration, scanned, converted, and aligned to your output requirements, and ready to be inserted into any full digital workflow. …RepliDot!

15. RepliDot is your copydot scanning solution when archives of film separations need to be accurately reproduced for integration into your Digital workflow …RepliDot, at a glance! Digital Descreening flawlessly generates an editable Continuous Tone image file, while preserving sharp edges of text, and retaining original film details. This technique efficiently allows you to perform unlimited photo retouching with a great deal of design flexibility Take advantage of Manual and Automatic Calibration to correct dot densities when converting your original screened films Dot2Dot reproduction of your halftone separations produces high-quality digital bitmap files, using Advanced Adaptive Threshold Technology With your choice amongst different threshold calibration methods, RepliDot uniquely provides a reliable tool for all your copydot scanning jobs.

16. Minimum System Requirements Macintosh Platform Apple Macintosh PowerPC G3 - 500MHz Processor 512MB Available Physical Memory (RAM) 5GB Available Hard-Disk Space Adobe Photoshop 7.x* *Adobe Photoshop CS for MAC is due in 2 months Windows Platform Pentium 3 - 800MHz Processor 512MB Available Physical Memory (RAM) 5GB Available Hard-Disk Space Adobe Photoshop 7.x Due end of this year

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