1. Colortrac background Company and products
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2. Colortrac background LF scanning is Colortrac sole business Since 1990
Design and manufacture mono and colour LF scanners and software for technical documents and graphic arts markets
Scan to file (archive, cleanup, batch)
Scan to print (copy - print while scan)
Mono and colour
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3. Colortrac background UK Company - Headquarters in UK
Sales/support offices in
Cambridge, UK
Chantilly, Virginia USA
Beijing, PRC
Distributors in 60+ countries worldwide
All design/development headquartered in UK
Colortrac’s own manufacturing sites in Suzhou PRC and UK
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4. Colortrac background
All products prior to SmartLF series were CCD-based (large)
“High end” and “very high end”
Colortrac acknowledged as high end colour scanners
Large % of high end scanners were being used for mono applications!!!!!
Hence the low cost CIS range introductions
CX40 (600dpi)
Ci 40 and Ci 24 (600 dpi) ranges
Gx+ 28/42/56 (1200 dpi) ranges
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5. Colortrac background
SmartLF range provides full feature set specific to application requirement
Ci and CX ranges for Technical Documents
Gx+ range for Graphic Arts and high quality Technical Documents
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6. Marketing
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7. Document Types Technical documents (information documents)
Engineering drawings
Urban layouts
Architectural drawings
Maps (information)
Manufacturing drawings
Graphic arts (decorative / display documents)
Presentations
Advertising
Displays
Maps (high colour importance)
Fine arts
Thick media
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8. Market segments Tech Documents Graphic Arts Market Size $$
Full Colour specialty applications
Mono applications
Mono applications with colour
Market Size
Functionality + colour content
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9. Customers Architects Construction Local government National government
planning applications
urban layouts
National government
survey commission
defence departments
general GIS departments
Legal firms
Museums / libraries
Copy shops
Reprographics bureaux
More
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10. Scan Application Requirements
Lowest cost requirement
Document cleanup tools
Scan-file, copy
Batch
Acceptable colour
Fine line capability
Productivity
Best colour requirement
Colour management software
ICC profiling
Scan-file & Scan-print (copy) $$
Graphic Arts
Tech Documents
Functionality + colour content
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11. Best technology/price fit
Colortrac CX and Ci Series
(CIS Technology)
Colortrac Gx+ Series
(CCD Technology)
CIS = Contact Image Sensor (solid state sensor)
Sufficient colour gamut
Sharp focus
CCD = Charge Couple Device (optical camera)
High colour gamut
High resolution $$
Graphic Arts
Tech Documents
Note: Gx+ Series now also suitable for technical applications due to its high speed spec
Tech Documents
Functionality + colour content
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12. Competitors
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13. Competitors Contex Graphtec (Widecom) Others (system manufacturers)
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14. Competitors
Contex
The largest in terms of overall sales including OEM (HP, Océ)
Danish company
Later into the market than Colortrac
Other non-scanning products – large manufacturing base and skill (but potentially costly in Denmark)
CCD only until late 2008 (1st generation)
Strong market presence across all continents
OEM arrangements with HP, Océ
A confusing range of products (too many?)
Now also includes the Vidar range (acquisition) – confusing – Vidar brand dropped in 2009
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15. Competitors Contex Plus: Strong manufacturing experience
Strong awareness in market
Good image quality
Minus:
Complicated product range
Over-distribution (channel conflict and price pressure)
CCD only (= expensive) until 2008 – cost loading for technical markets
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16. Competitors Graphtec Number 3 in terms of channel sales
Traditionally weak distribution channels in most countries (why?)
CIS only dpi) – good mechanical drive
OEM relationship with KIP
Japanese manufacturing company – scanning is a small part of the overall business
Scanning division recently bought out by ??
Solid product with few product variants – not accepted ion graphic arts areas
Weak paper handling and software
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17. Competitors Graphtec Plus: Strong manufacturing experience
Good mono image quality
Minus:
Low awareness / channel presence
Colour image quality not suitable for graphic arts applications
CIS only
Software applications weak
Paper handling weak
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18. Competitors
Others
Few systems manufacturers also include their own scanner or a no-name OEM scanner
Usually do not sell such scanners as stand-alone
Ricoh (mono only), Xerox Synergix, Océ, others
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19. Competitors Systems manufacturers Plus:
Sold/supported with complete system
Minus:
Price Price Price
Flexibility?
Choice of scanner technologies for different applications?
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20. Competitors Contex CIS (2008) CCD Vidar (Contex) CIS CCD
Technology Used
Contex CIS (2008) CCD
Vidar (Contex) CIS CCD
Graphtec CIS CCD
(Xerox, KIP, Ricoh) Various OEM
Colortrac CIS CCD
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21. Product Stuff
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22. Historically: Various Product Lines
Eagle Series
Evolution Series
Technical Documents
Graphic Documents
Series 3, Series 4
Series 3, Series 4
A0 Flatbed
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23. Now: Three Linked Product Lines
Technical Documents
Graphic Documents
Evolution Series
Series 3, Series 4
Eagle Series
Discontinued
A0 Flatbed
Ci 24, Ci 40
CX40
Gx+42, Gx+25, Gx+56
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24. SmartLF Model Differences - Applications
Cx 40 / Ci 40/24
Gx+ Series
Suitable Markets
AEC/Construction
Engineering
Local government
Repro shop
GIS & mapping
Graphic arts
Signage
Fine arts
Repro Shop
Document Types
Technical Documents
Mono with colour
Information content
Content -critical
Graphic arts documents
Full colour content
Decorative content
Appearance -critical
Market requirements
Speed
Line definition
Suitable colour
Price/performance
Simple software
Threshholding/ filtering/edit
Colour performance
Thick media handling
Competent software
Colour management
Wider scans
Good gamut, sharp focus
High gamut, high resolution
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25. SmartLF Model Differences - Technical
Cx+ 40 / Ci 40 / Ci 24
Gx+ 28 / 42 / 56
Technology
CIS – solid state
CCD – optical cameras
Performance
Sharp lines
Deep colours
Sensors
Staggered - 5 (Ci 24 has 3)
In-line / 6 / 8
Illumination
LED
Warm up - ready to use
Immediate
Stitch management
Front back
Left right
Document thickness
2.0 mm for Cx mm for Ci models
20 mm (T model)
Speed
Fast
Fastest
Resolution
600x600 dpi optical
1200x1200 dpi optical
Interface
USB – all models. Ethernet - Ci models
USB and Ethernet - all models
Energy Star
All Ci models (Ci 24 pending)
All models
Software
All in One – standard with all scanners
CopySmart and ScanWorks - optional
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26. Product Summary Cx+ 40 CIS Scanner Tech documents
40” document width
600 dpi optical resolution
Mono or colour – field upgradeable
5 CIS arrays– solid state illumination – no warm up time before first scan
USB
Gx+28 / Gx+42 / Gx+56 CCD Scanner GA and tech documents
28/42/56” document width
1200 dpi optical resolution
In-line CCD devices (Gx+ 42 model has 6 - Gx+28 has 4 – Gx+56 has 8)
Unique bi-directional LED illumination – NO warm up stabilisation time before first scan
Single glass per scanner
USB/Ethernet, Energy Star on all models
Ci 40 (Ci 24) CIS Scanner Tech documents
40” (24”) document width, paper documents
5 (3) CIS arrays – bi-directional LED solid state illumination – no warm up time before first scan
Face-up scanning – front entry/exit
USB/Ethernet, Energy Star
ScanWorks software Optional Scan-to-file software
CopySmart software Optional Scan-to-print, copy software
SmartLF software Included scan and copy software with every scanner
ScanWorks and CopySmart softwares suit all Colortrac scanner models
* “T” version scanners have thick media handling capability – up to 20mm doc thickness
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27. Product Summary All models are available in three versions
m models for black and white scanning
c models for black and white with colour scanning
e models for black and white with fast colour scanning
Each model is field upgradeable to the next (m/c/e) model via simple firmware download)
Gx+ 42, Gx+ 25, Gx+ 56 also available as “T” configurations to include thick media capability (up to 20mm document thickness)
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28. How it Works PC Host (Operator I/face) Colortrac components or
Local LF Printer or MFP
SmartLF Scanner
USB 2
USB 2
CopySmart or
Network Printers
Other document users
Archive servers
Colortrac components
ScanWorks
TCP/IP
Post-scan applications
provided by third party vendors
R -V Conversion
Document Management
Copy to CD
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29. Product Internal Block
Host PC
Scanner
Optical devices
CIS or CCD
Switches / sensors
Applications software
Scanner Driver
Main Processor Board
Mechanical components
USB
110/220 V
Power Supply
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30. Colortrac Software Solutions
SmartLF All-in-One standard with all scanners
Scan to file / print /
Windows drivers – very simple to use
ScanWorks – professional level scan to file with intelligent document cleanup
CopySmart – professional level copy
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31. Colortrac Software Solutions ScanWorks
Archiving, document edit and cleanup
Sharpen
Colortrac IAT document cleanup
Noise reduce/add Blur
RGB colour adjust
White/black point adjust
Deskew
Rotate
Crop
Mirror Invert
Colour depth reduce
Contrast / brightness adjust
Batch scanning – indexing
Numerous file formats
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32. Colortrac Software Solutions CopySmart
Single button LF copy solution
ICC Profiling / Colour management
Numerous LF printers supported by Colortrac drivers
Automatic image resolution selection
Preview selection – crop and scan
Printing starts as soon as document scan starts – that’s fast!!!!
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33. Technical
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34. The Environment
Energy Star compliance (Ci, Gx+ Series) (Ci 24 pending)
Instant-on scan capability on all models means no warm up time
Solid state illumination means no more mercury filled fluorescent tubes
Totally new electronics (EEC/ RoHS lead compliancy etc)
Solders and finishes do not contain lead (Pb) and other high-toxicity elements / chemicals
There is a warning to customers to think about disposal of consumables and the product at end of its life (WEEE
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35. Thresholding What is “threshholding”? What is Colortrac’s IAT?
ANSWER: - A level applied to greyscale data to separate interesting data (black) from the background (white)
What is Colortrac’s IAT?
ANSWER: - A more advanced threshholding type where the level to separate black from white is continually altered in response to the background darkness.
All Colortrac scanners operate on a common set of software suites. IAT is featured across the scanner range
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36. Colortrac Our Business is Your Image www.colortrac.com
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