Scanning with the Batch Feeder
Batch Scanning with 3f
The Batch Feeder is intended as a tool for scanning large numbers of originals in a production environment. For this application, we strongly recommend the 3f workflow for maximum efficiency and flexibility.
The 3f image-file format preserves your full-resolution, 16-bit raw scans and keeps a record of settings applied to each exported image. This gives you the flexibility to use all of the image correction and sizing tools in Fl- exColor while ensuring that no data is lost from your original scan. Once you have made all of the required settings in FlexColor for each image, you can export TIFF or JPEG files in which all of your FlexColor settings are applied. Your settings are stored in the original 3f file, but not applied to it. If you export using different settings, then these are also stored with the original file, providing you with a history of all the exports you have made from the file. A given image might, for example, be optimized sev- eral times for use in a black & white newspaper, color brochure, poster and web page.
The 3f workflow is fully described in the FlexColor User’s Guide. An ex- ample of how to use it in a production environment is briefly outlined below.
1.Load the Batch Feeder with up to ten originals as described in “Load- ing Originals into the Feeder” on page 14.