Dalim Tango was a color retouching package aimed at the repro and prepress markets. It ran on Silicon Graphics workstations, and was first released in 1993. Support continued until Dalim filed for bankruptcy in late 1998.

Features

Tango had tools for retouching, creative painting, image manipulation and "merging" different images. It supported the standard CMYK, RGB, CIELAB and HLS color spaces. Users could also work in a CMYK++ mode, which added special inks to the standard four-color CMYK palette, somewhat similar to the InkSwitch module of Barco Creator

Barco Creator

Barco Creator was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It was developed by the Creative Systems division of the Barco Group from 1988 to the late 1990s, and ran on several generations of Silicon Graphics computers...

. A software densitometer

Densitometer

A densitometer is a device that measures the degree of darkness of a photographic or semitransparent material or of a reflecting surface. The densitometer is basically a light source aimed at a photoelectric cell. It determines the density of a sample placed between the light source and the...

 with unlimited sample sites was also included.

Tango 2.0 could open TIFF, Scitex CT

Scitex CT

Scitex Continuous Tone or Scitex CT is an image file format. It is designed specifically for use on Scitex graphics processing equipment. Its use is supported by numerous graphics suites and desktop publishing packages, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress....

 and Dalim native formats.

See also

• Dalim Software GmbH
• Barco Creator
  Barco Creator
  Barco Creator was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It was developed by the Creative Systems division of the Barco Group from 1988 to the late 1990s, and ran on several generations of Silicon Graphics computers...
  
  
• Barco ColorTone
  Barco ColorTone
  Barco ColorTone was a stripped down version of the Barco Creator image manipulation program. It was originally developed for IRIX, and only featured the base "CT-Brix", brush and colour correction modules. An additional "image quality estimator" module, not featured in Creator, was also added.Later...
  
  
• Linotype-Hell DaVinci
  Linotype-Hell DaVinci
  Linotype-Hell DaVinci was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It originally ran on proprietary hardware, but was later ported to Silicon Graphics workstations. The first version was released in 1993, and it continued to see regular releases until Heidelberg...