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Gretag Company History

      Considerable investments into research and development throughout many years and close cooperation with clients have made company Gretag Imaging the indisputable leader in the field of technologies of reception of the image.

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      the Majority of innovative innovations в  the given industry have arisen в  the last 30  years на  enterprise Gretag Imaging. More a quarter of all amateur pictures во  all world it is made today на  to firm Gretag Imaging equipment. Gretag Imaging develops devices which promote lifting и  to professionalism of a photomanufacturing industry.

      Gretag Imaging constantly searches for the evolutionary, updated form of development to offer the buyers the best way of return of the capital investments: long service life, compatibility и  simplicity of assemblage of equipment.

1943 : the Dr. Edgar Gretener has based engineering bureau по  to electromecanics и  to light engineering.

1959 : Firm GRETAG has deposited money the Know-how in electromecanics and optics in beginning business of photolaboratory works.

1961 : GRETAG introduces the first printer for a photolaboratory.

1968 : Favourable acquisition of firm FABAG, the manufacturer of the first-ever line of minilaboratories.

1968 : GRETAG introduces the first-ever automatic high-speed printer, model 3116.

1972 : There was in the market model Compact Lab - the first-ever compact printer with the built in processor - the predecessor of modern colour minilaboratory

1974 : the First scanning system of reading from a film which does unnecessary updating manually, is introduced together with model of the printer 3117.

1976 : model 3140 - first-ever completely the automatic high-speed printer with colour scanning by productivity of 10000 pictures at an o'clock Is introduced.

1982 : Introduction of system of additional order URS which is used today as the world standard.

1986 : the first-ever minilaboratory with the integrated scanner and technology Hands-off Is introduced. Model Master Scan.

1990 : As the first step in philosophy Master-World the first-ever microlaboratory for increase in colour works, a standard number of models Master Lab is introduced.

1992 : First-ever completely the automatic integrated system of data processing and press Syntra. With scanning Eye-Tech, quantum transition in automatic spectral measurement and correction of images.

1992 : GRETAG incurs a management of firm Standard Manufacturing in the USA and creates enterprise GRETAG IMAGING as independent firm in business of photolaboratory works. Increase in scale of products to the collector and the packer.

1994 : Master Lab digital, the first-ever binary minilaboratory for the traditional press of pictures and digital images on photographic paper is presented.

1994 : the Exit on the professional market and expansion of assortment to proattendance cars for a film and the press on a paper thanks to a capture under the control German Hostert-Gruppe.

1996 : GRETAG IMAGING lets out on the market the first complete palette of products for processing of the modernised photosystem.

1997 : GRETAG IMAGING represents the first spektralno-measuring, integrated minilaboratory with scanning Eye-Tech, a standard number молелей Master Flex. The department of workings out of firm GRETAG IMAGING works more than over dozen projects to provide a predominating place in the market. Some of these projects will pass in 1998 testing in field conditions.

1997 : merge of companies Gratag Imaging and San Marco Imaging

Gretag Imaging has gone bankrupt

on April, 28th 2003 г : it has been declared formation of new holding - San Marco Imaging Group which headquarters will be in in Pordenone (Italy). Into structure of this new enterprise will enter San Marco Imaging S.r.l., and also company Swiss Imaging Technology AG again created on the basis of gone bankrupt firm Gretag Imaging (Regensdorf, Shvetsarija).