This page is managed by Michael Jahn - michael.jahn@ioflex.com
click here to download the IoFlex BlackBox brochure as a PDF
IoFlex BlackBox is a "scan to print ready" application - think of it as the opposite of a RIP - Users begin with 600ppi scans of hard copy printed documents and convert them into multi-layered PDF files optimized for on demand digital printing or or traditional sheet-fed, heatset offset or high speed web printing.
IoFlex BlackBox offers a single simple dialog box to adjust settings where type becomes 1 bit (Black & White or a spot color) and the images are descreened and become 8 bit (if greyscale) or 24 or 32 bit (RGB or CMYK)
click here to download the file "000_BeforeAfter_IoFlex_2up.pdf" as a PDF file
IoFlex BlackBox software design conceptualizes scanned pages as single-object pages within a PDF, and from there cut and transforms the page into multiple objects (becoming more similar to a traditional vector-constructed page), for example allowing differential treatment of text and images on the page.
As a PDF-based makeready solution, true vector files can be just as easily manipulated, bringing over some traditional scan-based operations to the vector world; for example, one can use our software to align the pages of vector PDF produced originally via the likes of Quark or Word, or one can apply a printer calibration curve to all image objects, etc.
IoFlex has a top drawer reference list of high-end printers, including IBT, LightningSource, Edwards Brothers, RR Donnelley, Bertelsmann and many more.
Here is a link to an article with background information on that long-tail play by one of our larget contents, BiblioBazaar, who is soon to be the largest publisher in the world through use of our software in processing of out-of-copyright materials
http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/jan/15/cover68412/
Besides IoFlex BlackBox - BiblioBazaar have a significant install of IoFlex BlackBox and the Acrobat plug-ins for manual intervention. They have highly modified / customized the Atiz system to make a unique system that they offer to libraries.
The IoFlex web site does not yet reflect the plug-in technology we are now shipping - this new IoFlex BlackBox solution was designed for environments with "less" skill levels where a need for automated processing and efficiencies outweigh the need for "manual pixel-pushing" pre-press experts.
If you would like to view a few before and after, side by side examples, --> click here <--
To use browse around the image, click over different areas of the small thumbnail of the page that is near the upper left hand corner - to view other pages, click over the words "Image Compare" also in the upper left hand corner.