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This page shows images of scanner devices developed and produced

by company Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell.

C 185, a daylight scanner. Scanning lamp in the scanning arm, scanning roller with scanning head, replaceable film cassette with platen roller. The exposure is done with a glow lamp. Below from left; the oscillograph for gradation and color control, to the right of it the analogue color calculator
DC 300 B, as a daylight scanner, the precursor to the legendary DC 350. From left: scanning lamp room, scanning roller, mask roller, writing room: inside with platen roller, disk head, outside the film cassette, in front of the device the color calculator with control set. On the far right is the electronics cabinet with a scale calculator.
C299 L: a darkroom scanner with laser imagesetter. On the left the replaceable scanning roller, different diameters are available, on the right the platen roller. On the left is the laser unit, below the rollers is the analog color computer, and to the right is the input keyboard with the microprocessor machine control
DC 380T, a darkroom device with laser exposure, a further development of the C 299/C 399. The color computer and the control - based on the CPM operating system - are fully digitalized. Operation is via a standard computer keyboard with a screen display. The user interface is available in German, English and Japanese.
DC 350: which is based on the famous DC300B daylight scanner. In the background on the left is the laser unit, on the right is the electronics cabinet with the microprocessor machine control (CPM), the color computer is still analog, and to the right is the keyboard for the machine control.
CP 340: the poster scanner, the color corrections and the machine control largely correspond to the DC 350. However, the writing format is: 110 x 128.5 cm
S 3010, a completely new development from 1988 from the DC 3000 family, again with keyboard and screen control. The operating system is a Microsoft Windows version.
S 3900, the further development of the S 3010
Tango: The first scanner from Hell with a vertical scanning drum
Topaz: The first flatbed scanner from Hell
Nexscan: the last scanner developement, the scanning size is larger than the one of Herkules
CTX 330: The textile scanner from Hell. The optics and the color calculator are designed for 15-color scanning (recognition). This is necessary because textile patterns are always drawn with solid colors.
CTX 330 in the studio