Scanning with the Slide Feeder
Batch Scanning with 3f
The Slide Feeder is intended as a tool for scanning large number of slides 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 FlexColor 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 a given 3f image. A given image might, for example, be optimized several 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 example of how to use it in a production environment is briefly outlined below.
1.If you have a large number of slides to scan, then use two (or more) magazines so that you can load one with new slides as another one is being scanned. See also “Using a Second Magazine” on page 19.
2.Either fill the magazine in the Feeder or load a new, full magazine into it.
