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Such documents come in many different types of media, from paper to blueprints and film, and on thick and rigid media that has been folded or rolled, and which is often fragile, old, dirty, torn, and discoloured. Extracting the information from them and recreating it in digital form requires some highly specialised tools from the latest wide format scanners.

It's a highly specialised task too - of a different order to the scanning of modern drawings and documents in an architect’s office. Hence the need for the services of a professional scanning company, who have the widest format scanners, capable of taking a wide range of document sizes and thicknesses, and the expertise to tweak the output from the oldest and scrappiest of 2D plans.

DGVAULT
DGVault is such a company, as its name suggests - a busy professional scanning company that provides services to other businesses that need to digitise their physical records. They can do this at their own location, where they have access to the latest wide format scanners in situ, or they can pop out with one of their scanners to the customer's premises to provide onsite advice and support. It is, after all, far easier to pick up an easily transportable scanner than to transport a vault load of drawings to DGVault's premises - a clear case of Mohammed coming to the mountain, rather than the other way about.

To provide a full service, though, DGVault needed a device that scan wide format media of all sizes up to E, and to be able to satisfy a diverse customer base with scanning requirements and issues that covered all of the above.

THE SOLUTION
DGVault purchased their first Colortrac scanner many years ago. As their business has grown they have added more and now own eight Colortrac scanners of varying types. These include the very large Gx+ 56 scanners, which enable them to scan thick media up to 56 inches wide, plus a number of Colortrac's fast SC Xpress range. The latter enables superfast throughput using the integral USB3 interface. The varied line-up of Colortrac scanners now allows DGVault to provide accurate and fast results from all and any types and sizes of media.

THE BENEFIT
With many clients and a hectic business, time is money. DGVault required an affordable solution which meets their needs and which provides accurate scans quickly. The Colortrac 'Scan Once' technology is particularly useful, meaning that documents can be adjusted after the scan, without the need or delay of rescanning - enhancing the throughput of sheaves of documents culled from a vault’s dusty shelves.

On-site projects can even be carried out at customer sites where they have no internet access or IT support. One of the benefits of the autonomous Colortrac scanners is the ability to move them from one location to another and know they will work, and retain their accuracy, as soon as they are turned on.

The star of the range is the 'super-size' SmartLF Gx+ T56, billed as an extra-wide format and thick media scanner. It has the widest imaging width of any sheet-fed wide format scanner on the market, and provides the ultimate format flexibility for service providers or users who need to cope with very large, over-size documents or want to capture landscape A0 / E-size drawings and plans right-reading from the outset.

The SmartLF Gx+ T56 also offers high 600 dpi optical resolution, superior colour CCD technology and the benefits of instant-on bi-directional LED illumination. The scanner can be used in all related areas - AEC, CAD and GIS - producing highly accurate colour reproductions and copying, and has the wide colour gamut required for demanding graphics applications.

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