July 31, 2004 -- ICG®, the drum scanner manufacturing company, today announced the re-instatement of its globally recognised company name Itek Colour Graphics Ltd (ICG Ltd). With its original and official title restored, ICG® reinforces its status as a leading force in the image capture market.

The change heralds a strengthening of the ICG® worldwide brand which grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s with the development of ICG’s award winning vertical drum scanner range. Today ICG’s flagship product, the unique ICG® 380 drum scanner (http://www.icg.ltd.uk/products/icg-380-drum-scanner.htm), enables not only the traditional pre-press, but also the content owners and photographers to get the highest quality from their transparencies, negatives and prints with unrivalled drum scanner quality at up to 12000 dpi optical quality resolution.

ICG’s original and new personnel are especially encouraged by the continual development of the vertical scanner range which has been evident since ICG® came under new ownership and management in October 2003. “Our engineers and technical staff are working flat out to meet the growing demand for this unique scanner.”, says Andre Fletcher, Managing Director of ICG Ltd. “The 380 is an essential part of many workflows all over the world and the recognition of this continues every day as we receive sales requests from Australia, the Americas and Europe.”

Since October 2003 new firmware code has been released and a new version of ScanXact® Version 10.3 is available (http://www.icg.ltd.uk/products/scanner-software.htm).

Considerable development in refining the current 380 hardware has taken place in readiness for the launch of a new model in the near future. ICG’s Research and Development staff are working hard to once again offer ground breaking technological advances which the imaging industry have been accustomed to for so many years. The development of the new OS X version of ScanXact® is well under way and is due for release later this year.

Currently ICG’s new production facility in Bristol is producing 2-3 scanners per week with a full order book for the next 12 months. Mounting orders from Japan, China, North America and Europe signify ICG’s return as a major force in image capture innovation and excellence.

About ICG
Web: http://www.icg.ltd.uk

ICG operates autonomously on an international scale through a network of specialist graphic art dealers and distributors. Its major international markets are North America, Western Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

ICG designs, manufactures and markets a range of pre-press equipment, which it supports with training, application and maintenance services. The company's flagship product is the ICG Drum Scanner.

The international headquarters is situated in its own purpose built building in Bristol, England, approximately 100 miles west of Heathrow Airport. The company only employs specialist staff with high levels of experience in dealing with colour capture and imaging.

Twice in its history the company's innovations have been recognised by the prestigious Queen's Award to Industry for Technological Achievement, most recently in 1997 for its novel vertical drum scanning products.

About the ICG® 380 Drum Scanner
The ICG® 380 is the latest evolution in our high-end vertical drum scanner range, designed with
the colour professional in mind. For those seeking the highest quality colour reproduction, the
380 combines flatbed ease of use with unrivalled drum scanner quality at up to 12000 dpi
optical quality resolution. High productivity is achieved with fast drum speeds and background
scanning. ICG has always been at the forefront of scanning technology and now leads the scanner market offering the widest RGB gamut possible from any drum or flatbed scanner. The ICG 380 can provide the highest quality scans in the world.

• 12000 dpi optical quality resolution. Up to 2000 rpm drum speed
• Background scanning for maximum productivity
• Choice of interchangeable drums A3 External, or SlickMount
• Precision triple photomultiplier scanner
• Full A3 drum preview in less than 30 seconds
• 1 Gb file scanned in 12 minutes

About ICG® ScanXact® 10.3 Scanner Software
Operation
• Fully adjustable traditional RGB/CMYK scanning with MonitorMatch, linework and monochrome modes.
• ICC link to Photoshop®

Editorial Controls
• Cropping and Quickscale.
• Automatic and manual highlight, shadow and grey correction. RGB/CMYK colour correction. Ink reduction. Input and output gradation. Magnifier.
• Viewing prescan and use of editorial controls not available in ICC link mode.

Compatibility/platform
• For use on all ICG® vertical scanners.
• Requires G3/G4 Mac only with a minimum 256 MB RAM.





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