Posted in Press Releases, Product Announcements on April 2nd, 2025
New FADGI compliance positions SmartLF SGi and SmartLF SCi as the perfect scanning solutions for the public sector and heritage digitization projects.
St. Ives, UK – April 2nd, 2025 – Colortrac announces that its SmartLF SGi and SmartLF SCi large format scanners are now FADGI 3-star compliant, meeting recognised standards for image quality set by the US Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).
FADGI compliance is fast becoming a requirement in public sector procurement, particularly in digitisation projects involving archives, libraries, and museums.
“Achieving the 3-star FADGI compliance means that our two leading scanner series now meet image quality benchmarks used by the most demanding institutions without adding cost or complexity to the user,” says Jacob Bendix, CCO and VP of Sales and Marketing at Colortrac.
The SmartLF SCi scanners with patented SingleSensor CIS technology and the SmartLF SGi CCD scanners continue to be fast, reliable, and cost-effective. Now with the added option of providing FADGI-compliant results when operated with the latest version of the SmartWorks Imaging software.
FADGI compliance
FADGI relies upon well-established practices, objective measurements, and quality assurance methods to create accurate imaging. The purpose is to reduce variabilities that may be introduced by the scanning process and human subjectivity.
FADGI is world-leading but compares to programs like Metamorfoze and ISO-19264-1. ISO 19264-1 B and Metamorfoze Light are comparable to FADGI 3-star, though they all get their results through different imaging approaches.
| Quality | FADGI | ISO 19264-1 | Metamorfoze |
| Very good | 3-star *** | Level B | Light |
Available for current users
Colortrac remains one of the few large format scanner providers with a free software option, SmartWorks TOUCH. However, achieving the FADGI 3-star compliance with a Colortrac SmartLF SCi or SmartLF SGi scanner requires the professional SmartWorks Imaging software. And if you have it already, all you need to do is update it to the latest version.
Capturing excellent images for 35 years
Colortrac is a pioneer of large format color scanning and the leading innovator in affordable color and monochrome wide format scanning technology.
Our scanners are easy to use and produce great results, whatever your requirements.
The company was founded in UK in 1989 to develop digital large format scanning solutions. The patented Colortrac invention ‘SingleSensor’ was a major gamechanger in the technology used to capture large format images.
