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title: "Contex Insights: Large Format Scanning Guides and Cases"
description: Latest knowledge and news from Contex, experts in large format scanning.
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# The place to go for large format scanning know-how
Explore expert advice, practical guides, news and real-world applications of large format scanning.
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Topics [Fine art](https://contex.com/insights/tag/fine-art) [Museums & heritage](https://contex.com/insights/tag/museums-heritage) [Reprographics](https://contex.com/insights/tag/reprographics) [Document archiving](https://contex.com/insights/tag/document-archiving) [CAD & engineering](https://contex.com/insights/tag/cad-engineering) [GIS & maps](https://contex.com/insights/tag/gis-maps) [Scanner care](https://contex.com/insights/tag/scanner-care-support) [PCB inspection](https://contex.com/insights/tag/pcb-quality-inspection) [Print inspection](https://contex.com/insights/tag/print-inspection)
## Latest insights
### [ News Manufacturers of large PCBs turn to HD Apeiron/42 for unmatched quality assurance Manufacturers of large PCBs use the contact-free HD Apeiron/42 to inspect and document full boards at 1200 dpi, revealing defects down to about 40–50 μm. November 10, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/pcb-manufacturers-hd-apeiron-42-quality-assurance)
### [ Guide Original to Print: 10 Essential Steps to Accurate Color in Fine Art Reproduction Build a consistent scan-to-print color workflow in 10 practical steps, from capture and ICC profiles to soft proofing and artist-approved prints. October 22, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/standardize-color-art-reproduction)
### [ Case study Soundwaves Art Foundation frees up time to raise more money for charity Soundwaves Art Foundation cuts artwork digitization time in half with Contex HD Apeiron/42, freeing more time to raise money for charity. July 2, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/soundwaves-art-foundation-case-study)
### [ Case study HD Apeiron/42 takes flight in aerospace paint perfection A leading aircraft manufacturer scans paint verification targets on HD Apeiron/42 to confirm color and detail before the aircraft is painted. April 24, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/aerospace-paint-verification-hd-apeiron-42)
### [ News Contex achieves internationally recognized RBA certification Global Scanning, maker of all Contex scanners, has passed the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) audit: proof of responsible, sustainable manufacturing. August 25, 2025](https://contex.com/insights/rba-certification)
### [ News New HD Apeiron/42 installed in the Middle East for fine art digitization A fine art digitization company in the Middle East removed a window to lift in its new HD Apeiron/42 contact-free art scanner. Here is why. May 13, 2025](https://contex.com/insights/hd-apeiron-42-middle-east-installation)
### [ Guide Nextimage 7 video tutorials: How to master large format scanning 13 short Nextimage 7 video tutorials for Contex large format scanners: installation, settings, cropping, auto black & white, batch mode and more. Updated October 20, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/nextimage-7-video-tutorials)
### [ News Exhibiting our contact-free art scanner at West Coast Art & Framing Expo 2025 Archive: Contex and National Azon showed the contact-free HD Apeiron/42 art scanner at West Coast Art & Framing Expo 2025 in Las Vegas. January 16, 2025](https://contex.com/insights/wcaf-expo-2025)
### [ Case study Workflow: How Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum preserves history while enhancing access See the 3-step scanning workflow Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum uses to create a preservation file and an accessible file of every historic document. November 25, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/cbmm-scanning-workflow)
### [ Case study Can a scanner support a whole community? How a museum helps Talbot Historical Society Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum lent its HD Apeiron/42 scanner to Talbot Historical Society to digitize large, fragile maps and documents. October 21, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/talbot-historical-society)
### [ Case study A museum’s dream: Preservation past physical life at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum digitizes 10,000+ fragile ship’s plans with the contact-free HD Apeiron/42, so originals are handled one last time. September 26, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/cbmm-heritage-preservation-case-study)
### [ Guide Contex scanner maintenance: how to keep your large format scanner in good shape Step-by-step large format scanner maintenance: clean the glass, re-color calibrate and remove streaks. With videos for HD Ultra X, IQ Quattro X and SD One+. Updated October 21, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/contex-scanner-maintenance)
### [ Guide Tips and guidelines for optimal scanning results with HD Apeiron/42 17 one-minute video tips for HD Apeiron/42 and Nextimage Apeiron: focus plane, lamp positions, presets, calibration, stitching and more. Updated November 10, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/hd-apeiron-42-tips-and-guidelines)
### [ Case study Reproducing framed art: American Repro is 20 times faster, and still charges the same American Reprographics scans framed art without removing the frame: 5 minutes instead of 1–2 hours, at the same price. Read the case study. April 11, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/american-repro-framed-art-scanning)
### [ Case study Revolutionizing workflow and color accuracy in art reproduction A Western European fine art printer tested HD Apeiron/42 on watercolors: closer color, real-time 3D texture control and hours, if not days, saved. March 12, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/color-accuracy-art-reproduction-case-study)
### [ Case study A/E Graphics puts stand-alone scanners and MFPs to the test A/E Graphics tested the top scanners against their MFPs. Contex HD Ultra X scans were two to three times better, so they switched to stand-alone scanners. March 7, 2024](https://contex.com/insights/ae-graphics-standalone-scanner-vs-mfp-test)
### [ Guide Scan A0, Arch E, D, ANSI and other large format documents: what to consider Which scanner width do you need for A0, A1, Arch D/E or ANSI sizes? Size charts matched to large format scanners, plus what to consider per document type. Updated October 21, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/how-to-digitize-large-documents)
### [ News Contex: 100 years of inventions From ink and calculators in 1923 to the contact-free HD Apeiron/42 in 2023: a timeline of 100 years of Contex inventions, with historical images. October 10, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/contex-100-years-of-inventions)
### [ Guide What is large format scanning? Benefits, uses and workflows Learn what large format scanning is, how it works, and how it helps digitize maps, drawings, archives, artwork and technical documents. Updated October 21, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/what-is-large-format-scanning)
### [ Case study Secure access to large format documents a big seller for scanning services provider Image One Florida scanning provider Image One uses a Contex HD Ultra X with PaperVision.com: 300% faster processing, legible scans first time and 24/7 access. September 11, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/image-one-secure-document-access)
### [ News Contex begins collaboration with new distributor in UK and Ireland: BDM Distribution BDM Distribution is the Contex large format scanner distributor in the UK and Ireland, including the HD Apeiron/42 contact-free art scanner. August 21, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/bdm-distribution-uk-ireland)
### [ News New contact-free large format art scanner delivers the market’s most lifelike results Launch news (June 2023): HD Apeiron/42, the Contex contact-free art scanner with FADGI 4-star quality, 1200 dpi, four lamp positions and 3D surface effect. June 28, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/hd-apeiron-42-launch)
### [ News Contex recognizes National / AZON as top-selling worldwide distributor for 2022 Contex recognizes National / AZON as its top-selling distributor of large format scanning solutions worldwide in 2022, the third award since 2019. March 7, 2023](https://contex.com/insights/national-azon-top-distributor-2022)
### [ Case study How to speed up digital archiving at museums: Thunder Bay Museum Thunder Bay Museum replaced a photocopier with a Contex IQ FLEX flatbed scanner and has digitized 40,000 newspaper pages faster and in better quality. November 1, 2022](https://contex.com/insights/thunder-bay-museum-newspaper-archive)
### [ Case study Beating deadlines at a major records management company A records management company scanned 175,000 engineering drawings six months early with three 60-inch Contex HD Ultra X ScanStation Pro scanners. January 7, 2022](https://contex.com/insights/records-management-scanning-deadlines)
### [ Guide Standalone scanner vs MFP: when to choose which Standalone large format scanner or MFP with a built-in scanner? Scanning expert Doyle Cryer explains the differences in software, paper handling and QC. Updated November 10, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/standalone-scanner-vs-mfp)
### [ Case study Capturing Canada’s storied history: Fort St. John North Peace Museum Fort St. John North Peace Museum scans its 75-year newspaper archive on a Contex HD Ultra X, cutting retrieval from weeks to seconds and protecting it from ... April 14, 2021](https://contex.com/insights/fort-st-john-north-peace-museum)
### [ Case study High-end reproductions draw new revenue streams Las Vegas gallery ART2art has artworks scanned on a Contex IQ FLEX so artists can sell high-end reproductions at a fraction of the price of an original. July 10, 2020](https://contex.com/insights/art2art-gallery-reproductions)
### [ Case study Reclaiming lost real estate in NYC CASO Document Management boosted scanning productivity by 400% with a 60-inch Contex HD Ultra X, helping NYC clients reclaim space lost to paper archives. February 13, 2020](https://contex.com/insights/caso-reclaiming-real-estate-nyc)
### [ Guide What determines a successful large format scanning process? Hardware, software, productivity and image quality: Contex support director Dan Bennett explains four requirements for successful large format scanning. Updated November 10, 2026](https://contex.com/insights/large-format-scanner-image-quality)
### [ Case study Where the lines are drawn: Texas General Land Office The Texas General Land Office made its ScanLab 25% more efficient with a 60-inch Contex HD Ultra X, putting more of its 45,000 historic maps online. December 17, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/texas-general-land-office-maps)
### [ Case study Secrets to success: Doyle Cryer, large format scanning expert 30-year industry veteran Doyle Cryer of National Azon on why reprographics shops and archivists need production scanners, not MFPs, to stay competitive. September 12, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/doyle-cryer-secrets-to-success)
### [ Case study College Park Aviation Museum preserves aviation history with Contex IQ FLEX The College Park Aviation Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, uses a Contex IQ FLEX flatbed scanner to preserve fragile photos, maps and documents since 1909. August 16, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/college-park-aviation-museum)
### [ Case study City of Houston rebuilds: scanning permit drawings after Hurricane Harvey After Hurricane Harvey, the Houston Permitting Center scans hundreds of building drawings a day on a Contex IQ Quattro large format scanner. August 6, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/city-of-houston-permitting-center)
### [ Case study Texas A&M University-Central Texas builds an archive from the ground up Texas A&M University-Central Texas built a new archive with a Contex IQ Quattro and IQ FLEX, raising scanning productivity by 50%. June 13, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/texas-am-central-texas-archive)
### [ Case study Dynamic Reprographics takes on new scanning projects with ease Dynamic Reprographics compared scanners side by side. A Contex IQ Quattro removed banding and post-editing, and opened new work with local artists. May 10, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/dynamic-reprographics)
### [ Case study Danish artist finds scanning superior to digital photography Danish artist Sofie Børsting compared scanning and photographing her artwork. The Contex IQ FLEX matched photo quality at a much lower cost. April 25, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/danish-artist-scanning-vs-photography)
### [ Case study Perry County Office builds its digital archive one land survey at a time Ohio’s Perry County Office replaced a costly photocopier with a Contex large format scanner to answer 8,000 land survey requests a year and build a digital ... February 19, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/perry-county-land-surveys)
### [ Case study Graphic Imaging Services captures clients’ valuable assets with exceptional speed and accuracy Las Vegas repro shop Graphic Imaging Services scans blueprints, maps and fine art on a 42-inch Contex scanner that paid for itself in three months. February 18, 2019](https://contex.com/insights/graphic-imaging-services)
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[ Fine art Guides, customer stories and answers for galleries, museums, artists and fine art reprographics studios on ...](https://contex.com/insights/tag/fine-art) [ Museums & heritage Stories and guides for museums, archives and historical societies on digitizing fragile collections with ...](https://contex.com/insights/tag/museums-heritage) [ Reprographics Case studies and guides for print and repro shops on large format scanning, new revenue streams and faster ...](https://contex.com/insights/tag/reprographics) [ Document archiving How organizations digitize large documents, plans and records for secure, searchable archives.](https://contex.com/insights/tag/document-archiving) [ CAD & engineering Guides and case studies on scanning technical drawings, plans and engineering documents.](https://contex.com/insights/tag/cad-engineering) [ GIS & maps How map offices and land records teams scan maps and surveys with accuracy.](https://contex.com/insights/tag/gis-maps) [ Scanner care Maintenance guides, video tutorials and tips for getting the best results from your Contex scanner.](https://contex.com/insights/tag/scanner-care-support) [ PCB inspection How electronics manufacturers document PCBs and PCB assemblies for quality and traceability.](https://contex.com/insights/tag/pcb-quality-inspection) [ Print inspection How printers, packaging and label producers compare printed output against the original design to catch ...](https://contex.com/insights/tag/print-inspection)
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