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Product Overview
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Scan
Upgradable from monochrome to color
Photo-realistic vivid colors on PLUS model
Crisp, clear black-and-white scanning
Thick originals - up to 0.6"
USB Plug and Play connectivity
All-Wheel-Drive with contour adjustment
3C Automatic Maintenance System

Copy
Color matching to printer & media on PLUS model
Perfect reproduction of grayshades
Free JETimage BASE software
Built-in calibration - black/white points
Built-in Precision Color calibration (PLUS model)

Available in Plus model and Basic model with upgrade option (see specifications).

The CHAMELEON 25” scanners are designed to introduce professionals to wide format document scanning at a highly affordable price while keeping their options open. The CHAMELEON 25” represents a safe investment because, like the reptile, this CHAMELEON can adapt if the need arises.
These compact 25” scanners will fit in any office and are perfect devices for creating in-house graphics and impressive presentations right off the desktop. Graphics and designer firms can scan and copy full sized prototypes for packaging, advertisements and trade show decorations. This scanner is the right investment for Sign Companies, Pre-press shops, Photo Labs, Copy shops, POP/Exhibit/Display Providers, Architect and Engineer offices.


Features
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Upgradeable from Monochrome to Color
The CHAMELEON 25" scanners come in two models: The CHAMELEON 25 BASIC monochrome scanner and the CHAMELEON 25 PLUS color scanner. The CHAMELEON 25 BASIC scanners can easily be upgraded to the CHAMELEON 25 PLUS through the Smart Card Upgrade Kit enabling users to gain quality color scanning capabilities without suffering the heavy cost of a whole new device. Now small companies get a chance to enjoy wide format document scanning at a low budget risk with a scanner that can grow with their business.

Monochrome Scanning and Copying Superiority
The CHAMELEON 25 BASIC models scan graytones at 12 bits passing on the best 8 bits to the computer for high grayshade precision. Both CHAMELEON 25 scanner models use an All-Digital camera with on-board digital conversion ensuring minimum noise and an extended dynamic range.
These scanners support the latest in monochrome scanning technology with Dual 2D-Adaptive enhancement that works simultaneously on foreground, background, edges and other individual aspects of the original so you produce clean, crisp scans even from poor quality drawings.

Vivid Colors with the CHAMELEON 25 PLUS
The high-end CHAMELEON 25 PLUS models pack all the monochrome capabilities of the CHAMELEON 25 BASIC but can in addition create images in vivid photo-realistic colors. Color is captured at 36 bits for maximum color precision, passing the best 24 bits of color data to the computer.
Connect the CHAMELEON 25 PLUS scanner to a 25" large-format color printer and you get the perfect digital color copier. The scanner's high precision of details and colors lets you enlarge your creations to full display sizes without losing quality. Quality color matched fluorescent lamps ensure the market's highest standards for color correctness.

Care for your original
The CHAMELEON protects your document and scanning results with the ALL Wheel Drive document path system. Precision soft-friction rollers and contour adjustment ensure a straight scan path without applying unnecessary force so you avoid distortion and damage to your originals.

Precision color on the CHAMELEON 25 PLUS
Contex color scanners are the markets only wide format scanners that can be user-calibrated to output color in accordance with international color standards (NTSC, sRGB color spaces). The unique Precision Color System lets you calibrate in the field at any time ensuring stabile and predictable color output.

Automatic Scanner Maintenance
The CHAMELEON scanner is designed to let you concentrate on your work and take optimal scanner performance for granted.

The scanner incorporates the 3C Auto-Maintenance system that keeps your cameras perfectly aligned, adjusted and calibrated for optimal image quality.
Once the scanner has been fine-tuned, it performs a number of basic tasks on its own, removing those tedious chores required with other scanner systems. Using patented Contex technology, camera stitching and black-white-points are constantly monitored and corrected while your scanner is running.

One Touch Scanning
The scanner's operator's panel is designed with convenient programmable action buttons for initiating frequent tasks directly from the scanner. Each button immediately activates a scan and opens the image in an appropriate application and format. The scanner comes with buttons for scanning, copying and e-mailing loaded originals.

Advanced Power Management
Running the right internal temperature is of utmost importance with high quality scanning. The scanner's advanced Power Management rapidly brings the scanner to its optimal working temperature after which the temperature is monitored for lowest CCD noise. The system also lets you program the scanner to power-up automatically in the early morning hours so that it stands ready to scan when you arrive at the office.


 

Specifications
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Chameleon 25" Scanner

CHAMELEON 25” Series           

25 BASIC

25 PLUS

Maximum Resolution (dpi):

600

800

Variable resolution setting

from 50 dpi in one dpi increments

X

X

Scaled resolutions

- up to 2400 dpi

-

X

Scan Speed

 400dpi Turbo, 24 bit RGB scans

-

0.05”/s

 400dpi Turbo, monochrome scans

1.1”/s

2.2”/s

Digital Image Processing:
HW = Image processing feature embedded in the scanner’s hardware

Dual 2D-Adaptive enhancement processing.
ADL+ error diffusion halftoning.
2D - Sharpening and Softening.
2D - Blur filter
Color Feature Extraction
2D - Adaptive Thresholding.  

HW
HW
HW
HW
-
HW

H W
HW
HW
HW
HW
HW

Scan Modes

24-bit color
8 bit Feature Extraction/indexed color
8-bit graytone with 256 gray levels.
Copy modes with ADL+ Error Diffusion halftoning.
1-bit Black & White line mode

-
-
X
X
X

X
X
X
X
X

Color Space

NTSC
s RGB

-
-

X
X

One Touch Scanning  (scan, copy, email)

X

X

3C Auto-Maintenance System

Auto-alignment to fraction of a pixel
A
uto-stitching to fraction of a pixel
Basic Calibration
Precision Color Calibration
Auto monitoring and correction (stitching, black-and-white point)

X
X
X
-
X

X
X
X
X
X

Color Adjustment:

3x3 matrix multiplier
 Independent RGB tone curves (Gamma)
Independent black-and-white point setting

-
-
-

X
X
X

Sensors:

Single tri-linear color CCD
10.680 pixels (RGB triplets)                       
36 bits of color data capture.
12 bits of graytone data capture
All digital camera

X
X
-
X
X

X
X
X
X
X

All-Wheel-Drive

Contour Adjustment
Precision Rollers

X
X

X
X

Advanced Power Management:

Temperature Control
Low Power Mode
Programmable power up timer

 X
X
X

X
X
X

Media and Scan Width

Media Width: 6.0 to 28" (711 mm.)
Scan Width:  25" Inches (635 mm.)
Media Thickness: Up to 0.6” (15mm.)

X
X
X

X
X
X

Media and Scan length

Unlimited

X

X

Dimensions

38.3” wide x 7.3”high x 18.3”deep   
(972 x 185 x 465 m.)    

X

X

Interface

USB 1.1 
STI support           

X
X

X
X

Light Source

Color matched fluorescent lamps CRI>95

X

X

Optics

Torsion stabilized for portability.

X

X

Power

 110/220/240V, 60/50 cs, 180W

X

X

Scanner Maintenance Kit (included) 

Maintenance software, Maintenance Sheet, Instruction poster


X

 
X

Operating systems:

Windows 98,  ME, 2000 with USB
Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT 4.0 with SCSI

X
X

X
X

Copy Software (included)

 JETimage BASE

X

X

Copy Software (Optional)

 JETimage PRO

X

X

Scan Software (Optional)

 WIDEimage

X

X

Optional Thick Media Support Table

X

X

Optional Floor Stand with Document Basket

X

X


Ordering Information
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To order call Sharpline Imaging Inc. at (780) 413-9660 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, call (403) 243-3418 In Calgary Alberta or Toll Free 1-888-413-9660, fax us at 1-780-440-0819, or e-mail us at sales@sharplineinc.com

Description

P/N

List Price1
Chameleon 25" Basic 6700D003

$ 11,850.00

Upgrade to Plus 6799D114

$ 2,992.00

Accessories

Floor Stand 2200D002

$ 1335.00

25" Scanner Maintenance Kit:  Maintenance CD, Calibration Sheet, Dust Cover

6799D113

$ 592.00

Calibration Sheet 6799D115

$ 295.00

SCSI Cable, HD50 Male/HD50 Male, 10’ 0090B044

$ 156.00

WIDEImage Scanning Software:  
WIDEimage CD for Windows 98, 2000, ME & NT 4.0 (NT. 4.0 for all Scanners except Chameleon Scanner Line)
9691A001

$ 1,498.50

JETIMAGE PRO Copy Software: 
CD with JETimage PRO Copy Software for Windows 98, 2000, ME & NT 4.0. (NT. 4.0 for all Scanners except Chameleon Scanner Line)
9691A005

$ 3,750.00

¹Suggested Canadian Retail Price. Prices are subject to change without notice. Prices with only dollar signs indicate prices are not yet available.

Interface cables must be ordered separately.

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Technical information in this document is subject to change without notice. 

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