SmartLF SC series scanners and SmartWorks software have been designed using unique elements of Colortrac Innovative Technologies.   In a clear indication that Colortrac have listened to their customers, they continue to provide them with large format scanning solutions having a distinct higher performance, image quality and price advantages to assist them in satisfying their wide format documents scanning requirements.

 

 

SingleSensor – Colortrac Image Capture Technology

The innovative Colortrac SingleSensor technology – designed for optimum image capture across full scan width – Patents applied for

Key Features

• Uses up to 50,400 individual image sensors in a straight line across the width of the scanner
  • SC 42 = 50,400 individual image sensors
  • SC 36 = 43,200 individual image sensors
  • SC 25 = 30,000 individual image sensors
• Compact, robust, single-piece design with a significantly higher optical quality and alignment stability
• Gives each scanner an optical resolution of 1200dpi and a maximum scanning resolution of 9600dpi
• Simple mechanics and easily accessible

Key Benefits - General

• Stitched for life at the factory for use in normal office environments
• Optimum Quality straight out of the box
• Simpler mechanics mean easier service

Key Benefits - Versus CCDs

• Separate CCDs arranged in a line, but possible Left/Right and Front/Back stitch issues
• Complex mechanical lenses & mirrors – difficult to maintain image quality

Key Benefits - Versus Staggered CIS

• Possible front/back stitch issues

ClearView - Colortrac Lighting Technology 

Innovative Dual LED lighting system – designed to optimize image capture of high fidelity documents

Key Features

• Consistent light levels across full scan width
• Bi-directional LED illumination
  • SC 42 = 144 RGB LED switched lights
  • SC 36 = 144 RGB LED switched lights
  • SC 25 = 96 RGB LED switched lights
• Supported colour spaces
  • Raw RGB
  • Profiled RGB
  • sRGB
• 50,000 hours projected lifetime
• Instant-on, zero maintenance, low power consumption

Key Benefits - General

• Eliminates shadows due to document folds or creases
• Lights for life – expected life 8x5x52=24 years
• Instant-on lighting – no warm up time
• Good color performance
• Minimizes the power required to provide best lighting for any scanning requirement

Key Benefits - Versus Fluorescent Tubes

• Warm up time = Varying intensity = Varying colour
• Limited life = higher lifetime cost
• Non Ecological – Disposal of toxic mercury in tubes is a problem
• High voltages and higher power consumption
• Poor reliability

Key Benefits - Versus Staggered CIS

• Light leakage between Contact Image Sensors
• CIS to CIS color variation and non-uniform colour performance
• Single sided illumination – Only 5 independent staggered, single sided LEDs

SureDrive - Colortrac Document Transport Technology

Innovative and elegant single driven hold-up roller document drive solution

Key Features

• Single, driven, soft-surface, hold-up roller
• Ensures even and constant pressure across the total scanning width
• Keeps documents held gently, but firmly against the scan glass
• Smooths folded or creased documents
• Superior media transport for lightweight documents up to 0.08” / 2.0mm thick

Key Benefits - Versus non-driven hold down plate (Contex HD)

• Even pressure, but requires adjustment for light documents

Key Benefits - Versus non-driven staggered rollers

• Varying pressure across the document as staggered
• Non-driven
• Lower pressure
• Light weight documents will jam

FireFly – Colortrac Data Transfer Technology

Innovative, custom-built scanner interfaces designed to transfer data at the highest possible speeds

Key Features

• SuperSpeed USB3
  • Up to 85 MB/s data transfer rate
  • Backward compatible with USB2
• USB2
  • Colortrac improvements increase  data transfer speed by 40%  from 24 to 35 MB/s
• Scan to Cloud – compatible with:
  • Microsoft SkyDrive
  • Apple iCloud
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
• Ethernet
  • GigE on Gx+ series only

Key Benefits

• Reduces the data bottleneck caused by slow USB2 interfaces
• Increases scanner productivity when handling a varied range of archive jobs
• Scan higher dpi originals without reducing overall scan productivity
• Experience higher data transfer speeds than other scanners using the same computer and USB2 port!

WinSync - Colortrac Scanner Driver Technology

Interfacing Colortrac software applications to Windows in the most direct and efficient way possible

Key Features

• Scanner drivers utilise the latest Microsoft driver interfacing practices
• Newly developed drivers prove more reliable than adaptations of old drivers
• New drivers are automatically already optimised for the latest operating systems e.g. Windows 8

Key Benefits

• Functional out-of-the-box
• Reduces time needed for scanner installation
• Non-technical install
• Maximum efficiency

SuperSpeed - Latest USB standard  

SuperSpeed USB 3.0 gives a major improvement in data speed, while maintaining backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 devices

Key Features

• Now standard in Windows 8 enabled hardware
• Higher data transfer rates Up to 85 MB/s data transfer rate
• Increased maximum bus power
• New power management features
• Full-duplex data transfers
• Backward USB 2.0 compatibility
• New connectors and cables

Key Benefits

• Reduces the data bottleneck caused by slow USB2 interfaces
• More bus power when needed
• Less power used when idle

Colortrac ISIS Driver  

Complies with Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) for electronic document management (EDM) and electronic document capture (EDC)

Key Features

• Supplied for all models in the Colortrac SmartLF SC product range
• More reliable than using unregulated TWAIN driver technology
• Fully tested and ISIS certified by the holders of the ISIS standard – EMC²
• Dependable, high quality scans in color, grayscale and black & white available via the standard ISIS scanner user interface
• Full ISIS driver and interface support by EMC²

Key Benefits

• Simple to install
• No need to learn new scanner software or save to external files and import
• Supports all major ISIS compatible software
• Works with your existing ISIS-compliant EDM application
• Minimises re-training at existing ISIS user sites
• Guarantees fast and reliable data transmission between scanner and enterprise application
• Backed by EMC