SilverFast 6.5 UPGRADE & our Company policy

Dear Users,

first of all regarding our Update policy, I would like you to look at the fact that we have supplied for over 4 years more than 169 free updates (from V6.0 to 6.4.9) with numerous features that we have supplied for free! LaserSoft Imaging certainly represents a rare exception in the software industry today to give such a big amount of development to customers for free. Nevertheless we have to pay high quality scientists and engineers and without them we would not be the leading scanner software developer in the world!!!

Already with SilverFast 5.5 when we delivered the new NegaFix function, we explained the difference between an UPDATE and an UPGRADE and that we regard 5.5 as a major revision (as also ADOBE did). Here now we have a major revision with powerful new features (after 169 free updates). So look at what we have delivered in reality and not at the semantics, instead compare what was regarded previously the best scanner software, LinoColor, which has had a price of over 2500 US$, while in the meantime SilverFast is regarded as so much more powerful and productive than LinoColor at a fraction of the price!

Think about why SilverFast is the only software that is bundled by so many scanner manufacturers world-wide? Devide the UPGRADE fee by all the features we have delivered since V6 over the time of 4 years - how many upgrades did ADOBE have and what have they charged!!!

So, I am sure you will agree that you want us to continue to make relevant inventions and develop powerful features, which is only possible with high quality developers, which only stay in a company with reasonable salaries.

So, I hope everyone can see the relationship and value of UPGRADES and the necessity for fees at certain times to deliver great software!

SilverFast Multi-Exposure represents a unique and outstanding value since there was never in the publishing history such an increase in quality (caused by the dynamic range increase) as with this upgrade!

best regards
yours sincerely

Karl-Heinz Zahorsky
President & CEO
LaserSoft Imaging AG