Colortrac Wide Format Scanner Glossary

Color Space

A color space is a range of colors.

Colortrac SmartLF Cx 40 wide format scanners and Gx 25 wide format scanners use a RAW RGB color space. They do not conform to a standard color space but simply store colors as scanned.

Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40 large format scanners conform to a standard color space called sRGB. When a scan is made the colors are converted to the closest sRGB equivalent. The advantage of conforming to a standard color space is that it improves the user's perception of the scanner's color accuracy. However, it may narrow the scanner's gamut.