Digital Ice Technology
How cool is Digital ICE technology?
- Old film and slides are often covered with dust and scratches. Epson scanners are able to remove these defects during scanning with Digital ICE technology.
- Digital ICE technology uses infrared light, which is able to detect dust, hair, fingerprints or scratches. As infrared light is invisible, it cannot reproduce the colour information of the photo and therefore only delivers the defect information to the scanner software for processing and defect removal.
So how does the technology work?
- The photo is illuminated by a ‘cold' light lamp and the colour information of the image is captured and delivered to the scanner software. The photo is then illuminated by an infrared lamp and only the defect information is captured and delivered to the scanner software. The two images (colour information and defects) are compared and the defects are removed by means of advanced algorithms, resulting in an image without defects.
