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May / June 2011

WIDE FORMAT TRADE SHOWS: IRgA 2011 Show Disappoints and Dies in Las Vegas

March / April 2011

NEW WIDE FORMAT SCANNER: Image Access introduces its first CIS wide format scanner INDUSTRY NEWS: Contex introduces wide format ISIS drivers for EDM / EDC markets INDUSTRY NEWS: Xerox to stop selling wide format products in N America by end-2011

June / July 2010

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT: Bletchley Park WW2 spy files to be digitized with HP's help

March / April 2010

NEW 24" SCANNER: Colortrac's front exiting SmartLF Ci 24 benefits desktop scanning

November / December 2009

CONSOLIDATIONS: Image Access acquires worldwide Bookeye sales channel
BIG BUSINESS: Canon to buy Océ
OEMS: Xerox badges the Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40 large format scanner!
VIDEOS: Colortrac large format scanning and copying videos

September / October 2009

BUSINESS: Océ weathers economic storm by cutting costs
AWARDS: CCD (charge coupled device) inventors awarded 2009 physics Nobel Prize
BRANDS: Contex to discontinue Vidar large format scanner brand
PEOPLE: Contex's CEO resigns
INSTALLATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: ISIS - Image and Scanner Interface Specification Standard: Allied Images explain ISIS
NEW LARGE FORMAT SCANNER: UK's ArtSystems' mysterious Contex SD44SE scanner is the least expensive yet!
NEW SCANNER: New 24" Contex XD2490 offers price, performance and pedigree
DISCUSSION: Do A1 / D-size large format scanners present a viable CAD solution?
DUPLEX SCANNING: Image Access introduce large format duplex scanning.
SOFTWARE: Contex introduce Nextimage Touch
PORTABILITY: GEI introduce carrycase for Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40.
TAKEOVERS: Kodak finalise purchase of Bowe Bell + Howell.

June / July 2009

INSTALLATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Finland's M-Files recommended as an affordable EDMS solution by UK's Allied Images
NEW LARGE FORMAT SCANNER: Paradigm Imaging announce Graphtec's newest large format scanner, the SK280
NEW GENERATION SCANNERS: Colortrac's fast new SmartLF Gx+ Series redefines large format color graphics scanning
INSTALLATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Deskan 7 scans historical Australian newspapers and town plans
INSTALLATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Lebanese Parliamentary elections use Colortrac large format scanners to capture votes

April / May 2009

INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Colortrac SmartLF Gx 42 is Wide-Format Imaging's Top Product of 2009
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Ricoh claims 1200 dpi for new Aficio MP - but is it really?
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Colortrac build on quality, ISO 20001 and technical support
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Ratos strengthens Contex Holdings with $18m equity issue
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: ArtSystems launch Contex "Try and Buy" program in UK
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Océ Q1 revenues € 658 million, down 6.3%
REVIEW: Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40 large format scanner
NEW LARGE FORMAT SCANNER: Océ launches new CS4236 high resolution wide format colour scanner

February / March 2009

ILLUMINATION: LEDs light up large format scanning's future!
INDUSTRY ROUND-UP: Obama's "Buy American" policy may limit wide format scanner choice
NO BULL: Scan Speed Part 2 - Contex redefines large format scanner productivity in raw "drawings per hour"

December / January 2009

SIZE MATTERS: Probably the largest scanner in the universe!
NEW APPOINTMENTS: Malcom Lane to lead Colortrac Inc.
SIZE MATTERS: Colortrac sneak 56" wide large format scanner in under the radar
TRAINING: The importance of large format scanner training!

October / November 2008

NO BULL: Phew! Some issues that need cleaning up! Scan Speed
COOL NEWS: Colortrac's innovative SmartLF Ci 40 large format scanner ships

August / September 2008

SHORTS: The new Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40 - where is it?
SHORTS: Black magic - WideTEK gets white backplate!
SHORTS: Colortrac go for growth based on quality controls
SHORTS: Cadalyst run article on wide format scanners and printers
SHORTS: Into GIS? Get a free ticket to see Image Access at InterGEO
REVIEW: Contex SD4490 large format scanner
WATCHDOG: Can Widecom re-invent itself?
SHORTS: Romania's Z SPOT Media wins ISO 9000 certification

June / July 2008

GREEN SCANNING: Towards a greener technical drawing office
HOT NEWS: Contex buys IDEAL's Scanner and Systems Division
SHORTS: Canon previews new Colortrac SmartLF Ci 40 at drupa
SHORTS: Growing partnership between Colortrac and Canon
SHORTS: New Contex SD Series ship without delays!
SHORTS: Canon unveil new high speed CAD printers at drupa 2008
SHORTS: Innovation and speed win WideTEK 36 prestigious award
HOT NEWS: Two U-Turns in One - Contex's new CIS-based SD Series

April / May 2008

REVIEW: Graphtec CSX300 large format scanner
HOT NEWS: Nine "new" Graphtec HD Plus wide format scanners from Paradigm
RUMOUR: Contex CIS large format scanner to be announced
HOT NEWS: Contex scanners: Now available in black
GREEN SCANNING: First steps towards green large format scanners

February / March 2008

SHOW REPORT: Image Access at CeBIT 2008
EXPLANATION: Large format scanner accuracy and calibration
HOT NEWS: Image Access release WideTEK 42" and 48" models!
AWARDS: BERTL Four Stars - the New Scanner Average!
RESOLUTION: Do the large format scanners with the highest advertised resolutions have the best resolving power?

December / January 2008

CONFIRMATION: Image Access WideTEK 36 rated the "fastest scanner"
FREE TICKETS: See The WideTEK 36 FREE at CeBIT 2008
QUALITY ASSURANCE: Colortrac boosts Quality Assurance
QUALITY SCANNING: Creating high quality scans for raster to vector conversion

October / November 2007

SOFTWARE: New Scan2CAD Pro adds raster PDF read, write and convert to CAD
USER STORY: Rediscovering that corner of a foreign field
SCAN-TO-PDF: Benefits and considerations
THE MARKET: UK Contex Crystal price slashed by 47%
INTERVIEW: Niels Appel, Contex
EVALUATIONS & REPORTS: BERTL to produce large format scanner reports
IN A NUTSHELL: All you need to know before buying a large format scanner for CAD!

August / September 2007

CCD: Oops! Scanners4CAD apologise. We got it wrong!
SOFTWARE: WideTEK adds a network bridge with Scan2Edit software.
PRODUCTS: IDEAL introduces single footprint scanner / printer stand.
COMING SOON: Scanners4CAD travels to Denmark to visit Contex.
AWARDS: Large format scanner awards - Judging the Judges.
SAFE SCANNING: How to protect fragile and damaged technical drawings.
PRICEBUSTER: Large format's lateral thinker - the scan-in-strips Deskan 6!
HOT NEWS: Contex to be sold.
INTERVIEW: Ian Ferrier, Deskan.

June / July 2007

UPDATE: Colortrac's CopySmart gets new drivers and spectrophotometer support.
AWARD WINNERS: KIP and Contex win Wide-Format Imaging Top Product Awards.
FOLLOWUP: The HP DesignJet 4500 scanner.
NETWORKING: Coming soon to Big Screen near you!
BOTTOM LINE: Cock-a-doodle-doo. Colortrac crow their growing success!
THE MARKET: Graphtec GB cut prices again!

April / May 2007

HOT NEWS: Bowe Bell + Howell launch Infinity WF in the USA.
COMPARISON: Contex versus WideTEK network scanning.
REVIEW: The new Paradigm ImagePro Gx42 HD scanner series.
REVIEW: The new Paradigm Quatra multi-function printer/scanner.
VISTA: The CAD Experts View on Vista: Cadalyst Labs Review.
HI-TEC GRAVEYARD: HP discontinue HP Designjet 4200 scanner.

February / March 2007

FREE TICKETS: See The WideTEK 36 for FREE at CeBIT.
INTERVIEW: Thomas Ingendoh, Image Access GmbH.
HOT NEWS: New scanner player in the market - the WideTEK 36.
APPLE MACS: Affordable A0 scanning with the WideTEK 36.
WHITE PAPER: At last, some honesty about large format scanners!
NEW PRODUCT: Colortrac release their lowest priced large format scanner yet!
REVIEW: Desktop Engineering test Calcomp's ScanPlus with Scan2CAD.
REVIEW: AEC magazine reviews HP DesignJet 4500 scan and print solution.
VISTA: WOW - Vista runs CAD up to 50 times slower!
USER STORY: Filing Plus invest in SmartLF from Softcover.

December 2006 / January 2007

HOT NEWS: Stunning new multi-function system from Graphtec.
OEM: Paradigm badge Colortrac Gx 42 scanners as imagePRO.
INTERVIEW: Henrik Vestermark, The Other Solutions, Inc.
ON SHOW: Civils 2006 in London - Allied Images, Colourgen, Autodesk.
COLD NEWS: Image Tracer raster to vector converter terminated in Europe.
UPGRADES: Softcover offer EU Image Tracer users Scan2CAD upgrade.
NEW PRODUCT: Océ announces new multi-function TDS700 printer.
USER STORY: How CAD consultant Alan Darbyshire benefits from a SmartLF.

November 2006

INTERVIEW: Peter de Winter Brown, Colortrac.
SCANNER REVIEW: Colortrac's versatile new SmartLF Gx 42 range.
SOFTWARE: SmartLF Gx series has direct CLASP support to Scan2CAD.
WATCHDOG: Contex "Optical Resolution" - Fact or Fiction?
HOW TO: How to tell the Optical Resolution of a Contex G600 scanner.
THE MARKET: Contex, GTCO Calcomp and Vidar equivalent models explained.
SOFTWARE: Océ Colour Copy software and service make the difference.
THE WORTHWHILE WEB: Pro-Talk is a real .com success story!

October 2006

HOT NEWS: Graphtec GB cut prices by up to 29% while adding unique value.
INTERVIEW: Phil Kneale, Graphtec GB.
NEW SCANNER: The aggressively priced Colortrac SmartLF Gx 42.
WHITE PAPER: Contex host "CCD vs CIS Scanning Technologies" Grey Paper.
WATCHDOG: Colortrac's Gx 42 1200 dpi optical claim examined!
NEW SOFTWARE: New Scan2CAD update; Free fully working Trial available.
COMING SOON: Colortrac plan A1 scanner release by Q1 2007.
THE MARKET: Graphtec to re-enter UK scanner market with new products.
THE WORTHWHILE WEB: Ralph Grabowski's upFront eZine, 'The Business of CAD'.

Earlier Articles

COMMENT: A First Look at Contex's new G600 Scanners by Henrik Vestermark
ARTICLE: No Spin Guide to Buying a Large Format Scanner by Henrik Vestermark
ARTICLE: How to Justify a Large Format Scanner, Part 1 by Henrik Vestermark
ARTICLE: How to Justify a Large Format Scanner, Part 2 by Henrik Vestermark
ARTICLE: How Much Scanner Speed Do You Need? by Henrik Vestermark
REVIEW: Colour me Happy (from CAD User, March/April 2006, UK)