DECEMBER 2007 EDITION
A sincere
thank you goes out to each and every Colortrac distributor this year for
making this month the most successful scanner sales December ever in Colortrac's
18 year history.
After a nervous and slow beginning to the month sales began to grow steadily passing the previous best December record and orders are still coming in (Tuesday 18th)! A really fantastic result considering the variable economic climates worldwide. Well done everybody!
After a nervous and slow beginning to the month sales began to grow steadily passing the previous best December record and orders are still coming in (Tuesday 18th)! A really fantastic result considering the variable economic climates worldwide. Well done everybody!
The
best ever December for Colortrac scanner sales!
HEADLINE
NEWS
Technical
and Training Matters
Using SmartLF on Apple Macintosh
Using SmartLF on Apple Macintosh
SmartLF UPDATE
- keeping you updated
Published
by the Sales & Marketing Department, Colortrac Ltd, England UK E&OE,
all rights reserved 17/10/2007 Tel: 00 44 (0)1480 464618 Web:
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Some
useful Links
SmartLF downloads - www.colortrac.com/smartdownloads Gx 42 - http://www.colortrac.com/scanners/gx42_range.htm
SmartLF downloads - www.colortrac.com/smartdownloads Gx 42 - http://www.colortrac.com/scanners/gx42_range.htm
KURABO Industries
Ltd, Osaka, Japan signed a distribution agreement to sell SmartLF Gx CCD
and Cx CIS based scanners back in November and have already successfully
exhibited them at a show in Tokyo. Interest was very high and we hope
that this is the beginning of a strong and renewed partnership with our
old friends at KURABO.
Colortrac's products were subjected to a series of tough qualification checks by KURABO's engineers before the contract was signed.
Fuji-san, General Manager of the Colour Imaging Division of KURABO is seen here shaking hands with Colortrac's Colin White.
Colortrac's products were subjected to a series of tough qualification checks by KURABO's engineers before the contract was signed.
Fuji-san, General Manager of the Colour Imaging Division of KURABO is seen here shaking hands with Colortrac's Colin White.
As some
of you may have read in the Colortrac Blog certain SmartLF owners have been
using their scanners with Apple Macintosh computers - even MacBooks!
It would appear that the new OSX 10.5 or higher operating systems from Apple
and those running Intel chipsets can support ScanWorks, SmartLF All-in-One
and CopySmart applications. There doesn't appear to be speed penalties
and scanner operation was is good, even better than with regular Windows
pcs in some cases.
So far we have heard about 2 products that can run SmartLF on Mac hardware - Parallels from SWsoft and Fusion from VMWare. VMWare also produce a product that runs on Linux to provide a Windows hosting environment which could be useful for some customers. Note that in some cases these products need a Windows licence to run SmartLF applications as the products themselves do not always emulate Windows but instead provide a pc-like environment for Windows to load into. Please note that Colortrac reminds any dealer/ distributor or customer that connection of a SmartLF scanner to any computer other than a normal Windows computer is made at their own risk and doing so could invalidate the scanner warranty. Colortrac only supports Windows computers and Windows operating systems.
So far we have heard about 2 products that can run SmartLF on Mac hardware - Parallels from SWsoft and Fusion from VMWare. VMWare also produce a product that runs on Linux to provide a Windows hosting environment which could be useful for some customers. Note that in some cases these products need a Windows licence to run SmartLF applications as the products themselves do not always emulate Windows but instead provide a pc-like environment for Windows to load into. Please note that Colortrac reminds any dealer/ distributor or customer that connection of a SmartLF scanner to any computer other than a normal Windows computer is made at their own risk and doing so could invalidate the scanner warranty. Colortrac only supports Windows computers and Windows operating systems.
---------CHRISTMAS
SHUTDOWN----------
The Colortrac
office is closed for shipments after Friday 21st December 2006 until Wednesday
2nd January 2007 for the Christmas Holidays. Some staff will be available
on Monday 24th December.
Sindo
Computer of KOREA continue to work extremely hard marketing the complete
SmartLF range of scanners. This photograph shows the Sindo stand
at the Archiving Exhibition in SETEC, Seoul on November 1st - 3rd.
This show was mainly for government officials and service bureaus.
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FROM THE EXHIBITIONS--------------------------------
JAPAN
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"2007
has been a busy year and seen a record number of new distributor signings
for Colortrac in the ASIA Pacific region. Colortrac has signed Vietnam,
HK, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan and KOREA this year", said Colin White,
Colortrac's Business Development
Director and Sales Manager for the ASIA Pacific region.
GEI (USA)
at the SGIA show in Florida in November
Exhausted!
- Also Florida in November