Colortrac touts themselves as the most experienced designer of the world's most innovative and widest ranging high quality large format scanners. A pioneer in cost-effective color and monochrome wide format scanners, Colortrac was the first manufacturer to deliver affordable digital image capture for large format copying and wide format archiving applications for graphic arts, construction, engineering, GIS and mapping.
Colortrac large format scanners are selected by discerning buyers for their high speed, productivity and excellent quality imaging for wide format scanning, archiving, copying and printing jobs. Colortrac large format scanners are available in a range of image widths from 36" to 62", resolution up to 3,600 dpi, in sheetfeed or flatbed formats. Colortrac wide format scanners use the latest CCD (charge coupled device) or CIS (contact image sensor) digital color imaging technology.
Colortrac is the only large format scanner manufacturer that offers customers the complete choice of wide format scanner technology, formats and interfaces;
CIS or CCD image sensor technology
sheetfeed or flatbed scanner formats
USB2, IEEE 1394 Firewire or ultra wide SCSI connection
The company was founded in 1989 to develop digital large format scanning solutions for the Oil exploration industry. Ten years later, in the third quarter of 1999, Colortrac acquired ANAtech and Tangent Imaging Systems. The consolidated enterprise benefits from a detailed knowledge base of first-class, patented, wide format scanning technology developed since the early 1980's. The acquisition significantly strengthened Colortrac capabilities in 2D adaptive thresholding for monochrome images and in closed-loop color calibration technology for scan-to-copy and scan-to-print applications. Colortrac continues to focus on product innovation in its mission to expand the market for large format scanning and wide format image processing applications.
Winners of the prestigious Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1999, Colortrac Ltd. is located near Cambridge in the UK, a center of excellence for science and computer technology, and has facilities in Beijing China and Denver USA.
The Colortrac large format scanner range includes:
- Colortrac SmartLF scan 40" wide images at a breakthrough price from 3 models using the latest CIS technology for 400 dpi high speed monochrome, color and fast color large format scanning with 2400 dpi maximum resolution and USB2.
- Colortrac Series 4 enhanced scan 36", 42", 48" or 54" image widths with a choice of 200, 300 or 400 dpi optical resolutions and with the highest quality monochrome and color using CCD sensors with apo-chromatic lenses for wide color gamut and high dynamic range. 2400 dpi maximum resolution. Available in firewire (IEE1394) and ultra wide SCSI.
- Colortrac Flatbed 24120 an A1 format (D-size, 24" x 36") flatbed scanner with 600 dpi optical resolution for fine art reproduction, high accuracy GIS / Mapping and antiquity archive of precious, high value originals. Uses similar CCD based imaging technology as the Colortrac Series 4 enhanced scanners. 3600 dpi maximum resolution. Available in firewire (IEE1394) and ultra wide SCSI.
- ANAtech Eagle 27160C, 42101C, 42160C & 62101C scanners offer the highest accuracy and highest optical resolutions of any sheetfeed scanners on the market - and the 62101C is the WIDEST at 62" image width. 27" and two 42" models with choice of 508 dpi and 800 dpi optical resolutions, maximum 1600 dpi. Available in firewire (IEE1394) and ultra wide SCSI.
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