Capturing Excellent Images Since 1989

Since its foundation Colortrac has been a pioneer and innovator in cost-effective color and monochrome wide format scanners. We were the first manufacturer to deliver affordable digital color image capture for large format copying and wide format scanning applications in the graphic arts, construction, engineering, GIS, mapping and many other large format scanner applications. SmartLF Gx is Colortrac’s fifth generation of CCD large format scanner and our most innovative and accomplished so far. SmartLF Cx is the market leading CIS wide format scanner worldwide.

Colortrac provides high quality wide format scanners and large format copy solutions for digital color and monochrome applications for customers engaged in:

  • Architecture
  • Construction
  • Corporate In-house Services
  • Electronic Document Management (EDM)
  • Electronic Document Capture (EDC)
  • Engineering (CAD / CAM / CAE)
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • Graphic & Fine Arts Reproduction
  • Reprographics

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 US based 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 acquisitions significantly strengthened Colortrac capabilities in 2D adaptive thresholding for monochrome images and in closed-loop color calibration technology for large format scan-to-copy and scan-to-print applications. Colortrac continues to focus on product innovation in its mission to expand the market for wide format scanning and large format image processing applications.

In 1999, Colortrac was one of just 80 UK companies that won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Export Achievement. The company is located near Cambridge in the UK, a globally recognized centre of excellence for science and computer technology, and has sales & support offices in Beijing China and Golden CO, USA.

The successful launch of the SmartLF 4080 range of large format scanners in September 2004 established Colortrac as the market leader for entry-level CIS scanning technology. In December 2005 Colortrac announced their expansion with the formation of a new Chinese subsidiary, Colortrac Imaging Systems (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. The new company will source components and produce electro-mechanical assemblies for export to the UK where they are combined with UK-manufactured electronics and software to produce finished scanners for sale world-wide.

Colortrac Suzhou is a key element of our growth strategy as we seek to expand manufacturing capacity for the tremendously successful SmartLF large format scanner line. Colortrac Imaging Systems enables Colortrac to fully control all its manufacturing activities, reduces production costs and ensures product quality for our customers.

Colortrac Scanner Products

Colortrac SmartLF large format scanners are ideal for all wide format scanning, archiving, copying and printing jobs across the range of large format scanning applications for sheet-feed paper documents and flat, mounted originals up to 0.8” (20mm) thickness.

Colortrac SmartLF Cx 40 scan 40” wide images at a breakthrough price with 3 models using the latest CIS technology for 600 dpi high speed monochrome, color and express color large format scanning. 3600 dpi maximum resolution. USB2.

Colortrac SmartLF Gx & GxT 25 & 42 scan wide images from 25” to 42” at a breakthrough price with 18 models using the latest CCD technology for 1200 dpi high speed monochrome, color and express color large format scanning. 9600 dpi maximum resolution. USB2. GxT motorised thick media models scan media up to 20mm (0.8in) thickness.

Colortrac Software Products

Software is a vital component of any large format scanner system and Colortrac provides a range of standard and optional scan-to-file and scan-to-print applications.

SmartLF software is the ideal solution for first time and occasional users of large format scanners. All SmartLF wide format scanners are supplied complete with this software that supports batch scan-to-file, scan-to-copy and scan-to-email operations. Supports the most commonly used JPEG, PDF, PNG and TIFF image file formats.

ScanWorks software employs a scan-it-once ‘right first time’ workflow that allows complete control of the scanning process.

CopySmart connect any of Colortrac’s large format scanners and its PC to a large format printer and you have a digital copy system. This software creates a multi-function scan / copy / print system maximizing the utilization of your investment and large format scanner and printer equipment.

ISIS TM (Image & Scanner Interface Specification) is a technology for connecting high-speed document scanners to electronic document management (EDM) systems and for professional electronic document capture (EDC) applications.

Approved 3rd party software products

Colortrac Ltd Approved Software Product (CLASP) ~ is a Colortrac initiated programme to evaluate and test software products from leading independent software vendors (ISVs) to ensure compatibility, functionality and performance with Colortrac scanners.