PrinTao can be used as a direct scan-to-print feature, but it is flexible and powerful enough to also support some basic layout functionality. Before you actually scan the images on the scanner’s glass plate you can set up a document layout with PrinTao and have it printed almost while the images scan.

SilverFast Ai Studio must be the only scanner software that enables you to fill in IPTC data with every scanned image. This allows you to track and trace images through meta data just as with digital camera photographs. EXIF and IPTC text can also be used in PrinTao, together with other text you define. All these capabilities are available on multiple pages.

Printing a contact sheet with PrinTao is easy. It can contain all IPTC information you’ve added to each image on the glass plate you want to add to the printed document. The workflow to achieve this is simple and flexible and allows you to work on prescan images. The benefit of working on prescan images is that you can postpone the time-consuming full scan to the latest minute.

Printing a presentation document, like a simple flyer is also possible with PrinTao. It involves adding text yourself in independent text boxes on the page(s). The basic workflow always remains the same.

PrinTao workflow

The first thing to do in order to scan directly to a layout with SilverFast PrinTao, is open Photoshop or your SilverFast host application. A prescan of all the images on the glass plate of your scanner is what starts the PrinTao workflow.

As soon as the prescan has finished, each image can be edited as you would normally do. You can set resolution for each image, correct its colours, etc. A good advice is not to set different resolutions for images that will be printed through PrinTao in the same document. Another word of advice: although you could set each image to scan to a very high resolution; if your intention is to print a contact sheet or flyer, use the default settings. They work just fine.

When editing and setting resolutions is done, and you’re satisfied with the results, it is time to click the Print button which in Studio versions will take you to the PrinTao interface.