Colortrac Ltd PRODUCT SALES GUIDE COLORTRAC FLATBED 24120 24” x 36” SCANNER V1.1 JUNE 2003 / PAS 102 UK office: Colortrac Ltd Kings Hall St Ives Business Park St Ives Huntingdon Tel: +44(0) 1480 464618 Fax: +44(0) 1480 464620 email: info@colortrac.com US office: Colortrac US 17301 West Colfax Avenue Suite 165 Golden Colorado CO 80401 Tel: +1 303 973 6722 Fax: +1 303 973 7092 email: info@colortrac-us.com China office: ACTion Imaging Solutions Beijing Room 4-B1B Building No.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide Contents 1 About this Product Sales Guide ................................................................................................. 1 2 Product Introduction & Overview................................................................................................ 2 2.1 Product Introduction .............................................................................................................. 2 2.2 Operability............................................
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 1 1 About this Product Sales Guide This Product Sales Guide provides valuable information about the new Colortrac 24120 Flatbed Scanner. As well as an introduction to the product, this guide talks about the design concepts used in the 24120 and the new features now built into Scanworks software specifically for this model. Information is provided about market competition and also there are some ideas on how to sell and develop a successful demo strategy for the flatbed.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 2 2 Product Introduction & Overview 2.1 Product Introduction The Colortrac 24120 Flatbed Scanner builds on the highly successful technology used in the Series 4 ‘sheet-feed’ scanners. The 24120 scanner is aimed at the Fine Art Reproduction, Image Capture and Archive markets where there is a need for a scanner which does not ‘pinch’ the original in order to scan it.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 3 2.2 Operability The Colortrac flatbed scanner is very similar in appearance and operation to the early photocopiers which relied on the user laying the original on top of the glass and then lowering the cover before pressing the green button to make the copy. Scanning with the 24120 is very like using one of these early photocopiers except that the A1 Colortrac Flatbed is much larger and uses a Windows computer.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 4 colour scanners. Scanworks has been specially adapted to allow for a different scan workflow with the 24120 flatbed scanner. The software has also been extended to provide powerful editing features for working with images larger than A1 or for images which need to be corrected. Framed pictures where the image is not physically on-the-glass can be scanned successfully with these new editing features.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 5 3.1 Technical Highlights Helical lead screw engineering is at the heart of the new flatbed. The optics are carried back and forth along the length of the scanner by revolving the lead screw. A precision engineered runway inside the scanner ensures that the optics are moved with the maximum accuracy. The progress of the optics is slower than the paper speed in a sheet feed scanner at 5.6 mm/sec (0.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 6 3.2 Depth of Field One of the exciting aspects of the Flatbed 24120 is the large depth of field that the new scanner has. This can be useful for scanning objects that have depth, in other words 3-D objects. For example heavily textured oil or acrylic based paintings and regular 3-D objects can be scanned without problem. Object focus will start to be lost when the object approaches or exceeds the scanner’s depth of field but this is true for any optical system.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 7 3.5 Target Market The main market opportunity identified for this product is Fine Art Reproduction. This usually means originators or businesses involved in the reproduction of high value art in its various forms. Quantities are usually small and output is onto special media using inkjet printers with specialist inks.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 8 Archiving Businesses is another area where the flatbed can be extremely useful because it can scan any shape of original. Book scanners are a scanning development designed to cope with bound paper. These scanners can scan flat objects like posters and maps but all models have some sort of edge restraint and cannot take big items.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 9 4 Other competing book and flatbed products There are essentially 4 types of static document large format scanner currently on the market: x,y scanning head flatbed scanner planetary book scanners using a boom mounted CCD book scanners using full paper width traversing CCD hybrid book scanners with traversing CCD head and planetary boom CCD 4.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 10 4.2 Planetary book scanners with boom mounted CCD The range of scanners using a boom mounted CCD looking down onto the target make up the planetary book scanner market and are mostly monochrome/greyscale and A2 and below size. There are some colour models though.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 11 4.3 Book scanners using full paper width traversing CCD proServdatentechnik GmbH ProServ now use Colortrac S4e components (previously Vidar) and build the scanner upside down to face the glass surface. The whole scanner unit is then moved across the glass to scan the document. These devices will scan wall hangings, flags and books in thicknesses up to 250mm. The original is brought up to a position under the glass using a hydraulic table.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 12 5 Specification and Performance Resolution (selectable in 1 dpi steps) optical 600 dpi interpolated 3600 dpi Active Scan Area inches (mm) 610 mm x 915 mm (24” x 36”) / DIN A1 Scan Rates* - colour inches per second @600dpi 5.6mm/s (0.22 inches per/sec) Imaging Technology 2 Tri-linear CCD 7500 pixel cameras with 36-point primary point digital capture Scan accuracy 0.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 13 7 Scanworks Enhancements All Colortrac scanners use Scanworks software which is supplied with every scanner shipment. The design brief for Scanworks was to provide a straightforward interface with a responsive connection to the scanner capable of carrying out the basic requirements of setting the resolution, the colour mode (RGB, greyscale etc), controlling paper size and filename in the simplest way possible.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 14 7.2 Firmware changes Additions to the firmware now control how the scanner manages the deflections in the glass caused by the weight of heavy scan objects. All compensation is fully automatic. 7.3 Image editing New features available for the 24120 permitting the user to extend the variety of objects that can be scanned, for example oversize objects and 3D objects.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 15 In this example there are two scans, one from each side of a map of the world. A large enough canvas size is first selected and the two images are selected and placed into it. For best results both images should have some overlapping data. A B A B The zoom reveals that there is an area of overlap for the two scans.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 16 7.3.1.2 4 Point joining This is the alternative technique for joining sets of image data. Pairs of images to be joined are prepared for processing by the operator using coloured pointers on screen. Scanworks uses these locations to bring pairs of images into alignment. 4 Point is slightly more efficient because it takes care of any skew error as part of the alignment process.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 17 7.3.2 Cut Overlap ( for ‘off-the-glass’ scans ) An exciting new Cut Overlap feature for ‘off-the-glass’ scanning. All scanners are designed to see the object they scan at a fixed distance – the focus point. If this distance alters there will be an overlap error between one camera and the neighbouring camera (even if the object is still inside the depth of field of the lens).
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 18 - Pay careful attention to re-packing. Protect the glass by using the foam and ply board packing supplied - Do not allow anyone to STAND or place heavy objects on the scanner even when packed ready for shipment - 8.2 Do choose a reliable and careful shipping/carrier Preparing the 24120 The scanner should be allowed to warm up thoroughly for at least 45 minutes before carrying out a light/dark Normalisation.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 19 ~ Oriental style artwork often made onto very lightweight paper which can be too delicate to put through a sheet-feed scanner. ~ Artwork using oils, acrylics, charcoal, wax onto any type of base media e.g.
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 20 INDEX 2 F 24120 · 1 Fine Art Reproduction · 2, 7 Firewire · 18 Firmware · 14 framed picture · 17 3 3-D · 6 4 G Geographical Information System · 7 glass · 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 4 Point · 16 H A acrylic · 4 Active Scan Area · 12 alignment process · 16 Antiquities · 8 Archiving · 8 Art Galleries · 8 height of the image · 6 Helical · 5 hybrid · 9 I IEEE-1394 FirewireTM · 5 Interface · 12 B Book scanners · 8 boom mounted · 9 buffering · 5 C CCD
Colortrac 24120 Product Sales Guide 21 P Peter de Winter-Brown · 8 photocopier · 3 photocopiers · 3 planetary · 9 Presets’ · 13 proCaptura · 9 ProServ · 11 R Resolution · 12 room lighting levels · 8 S Scan accuracy · 12 Schneider · 3 SCSI IIITM · 5 sharpen · 13 Shipping · 17 shipping clamps · 17 specialist inks · 7 STAND · 18 STITM · 5 storage · 5 storyboard · 8 T tapestry · 18 textiles · 4 transparency · 14 U unobstructed · 7 unstable image repeat · 6 W Weight · 12 Windows · 3 Z Zeutschel · 11 E &
