SilverFast 6 has many new functions and improvements.
Major ones are covered here.

Other enhancements:
Real-Time Exposure control in histogram (Agfa, Microtek, Polaroid, Nikon), Grey ICC-profiles support, more NegaFix® profiles for negative film conversion, JobManager, RGB/CMYK Channel combination display, Balloon help for OS-X and WIN, Auto-Registration and Auto-Update check from within SilverFast.

GUI Correction Color Management Printing Productivity Other highlights
GUI
	Multiple Densitometer The ability to display up to 4 densitometers is possible with SilverFast. This allows 4 unique measurements of the image to be displayed simultaneously.
Correction
	Multi-Sampling Get rid of Noise! SilverFast Multi-Sampling with Auto-Alignment is here!
	Realtime-Processing With SilverFast, all image manipulations such as gradation, global and selective color corrections are applied by a slider control. This control updates the image in real time as the user drags the mouse. This is of particular advantage in color processing and gradational correction.
Color Management
	ColorSync 3 (Mac) / ICM (Win 98, 2000, XP) compatible! Using ICC-Profiles for the scanner, monitor and printer, and the capability to embed color profiles into your final scans, SilverFast enables professional color accuracy using the latest OS technologies. Rendering intent is another option, giving you control on how your profiles are applied to the image. This can be further enhanced using the IT-8 calibration option mentioned below.
Productivity
	IPTC Add image information according to the "International Press and Telecommunication Council".
	Plug&Play-CMYK Preview A pioneer development from LaserSoft Imaging enables the scanner preview in SilverFast to correspond 1:1 with the CMYK-preview in Photoshop - that's sensational - making production of perfect color-printing as easy as ever! With this break-through, LaserSoft Imaging enables color reproduction through Plug&Play CMYK for everyone!
	RAW SilverFast allows a quick conversion of RAW-Data files in the background.
	Renaming Import and rename your data in a single step.
Other highlights
	JPEG 2000 The support of the JPEG 2000 format enables SilverFast's strongest compression to process such data 3 to 7 times faster than Photoshop.
	LAB-Format By scanning into the CIE-LAB-format, SilverFast already aims at the future - device independent color - with PostScript Level 3 CIE-LAB, data will be automatically separated inside the RIP.
	New File Formats SilverFast now supports a total of 4 file output formats: TIFF, EPSF, DCS, and JPEG. You have the choice of either scanning or batch scanning directly into these file formats. The studio versions have JPEG2000 support with lossy or lossless 16 bit compression added.
	Predictable color with Photoshop SilverFast allows the preview image to match the final image in Photoshop. There is no color drift thanks to the color management system of SilverFast. You can simply set SilverFast to keep its working space identical to Photoshop's. You can even embed the working color space profile into files.