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2D Scanner

Contex HD Apeiron/42

The Contex HD Apeiron/42 is the newest and most exciting 2D scanner to hit the market. Designed originally for scanning works of art, this contact-free 2D scanner is the most delicate way to get lifelike digital copies of your legacy hand-drawn engineering drawings. 

By all accounts, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 is a professional-grade 2D scanner that can handle your largest and most involved scanning projects. As a CCD scanner, it offers superior file quality and scanning speeds that are unmatched. The HD Apeiron/42 further positions Contex as the global leader in 2D scanning.

How is this different than other Contex scanners? The two main differences are this scanner’s speed and the fact that it’s a non-contact scanner. Other scanners on the market feature rollers that grip your engineering drawing and feed it through the scanner. With the Contex HD Apeiron/42, your drawing is placed on a conveyor belt that safely moves your drawing with no added friction, grip, or contact. 

Some people might hear “conveyor belt” and imagine this is a slow process. In fact, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 is one of the fastest scanners on the market, offering scan speeds up to 6 inches per second (ips) at maximum quality 600dpi full-color scans. The speed only increases with lower quality or just greyscale scans.

Needless to say, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 has quickly become the go-to scanner for companies looking to digitize legacy drawings in bulk. For a quick way to handle your drawers of E-size drawings (or smaller), consider the Contex HD Apeiron/42.

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Contex HD Apeiron/42

The Contex HD Apeiron/42 is the newest and most exciting 2D scanner to hit the market. Designed originally for scanning works of art, this contact-free 2D scanner is the most delicate way to get lifelike digital copies of your legacy hand-drawn engineering drawings. 

By all accounts, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 is a professional-grade 2D scanner that can handle your largest and most involved scanning projects. As a CCD scanner, it offers superior file quality and scanning speeds that are unmatched. The HD Apeiron/42 further positions Contex as the global leader in 2D scanning.

How is this different than other Contex scanners? The two main differences are this scanner’s speed and the fact that it’s a non-contact scanner. Other scanners on the market feature rollers that grip your engineering drawing and feed it through the scanner. With the Contex HD Apeiron/42, your drawing is placed on a conveyor belt that safely moves your drawing with no added friction, grip, or contact. 

Some people might hear “conveyor belt” and imagine this is a slow process. In fact, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 is one of the fastest scanners on the market, offering scan speeds up to 6 inches per second (ips) at maximum quality 600dpi full-color scans. The speed only increases with lower quality or just greyscale scans.

Needless to say, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 has quickly become the go-to scanner for companies looking to digitize legacy drawings in bulk. For a quick way to handle your drawers of E-size drawings (or smaller), consider the Contex HD Apeiron/42.

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Technical Features

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ISO 17025 Accreditation

Scan-to-mesh in seconds

Worldwide Support

Patented Technology

Patented Technology

2D Scanning Technology: CCD

Accuracy: 0.1% +/- 1 pixel

Maximum Resolution (interpolated): 9600 dpi

Maximum Scan Width: 42 inch (1067 mm)

Max Scan Speed: 6 ips @ 600dpi color scan 

File Formats: Big TIFF, TIF, JPG, PDF, PDF/A, DWF, CALS, BMP, JPEG-2000(JP2), JPEG2000 Extended(JPX), TIF-G3, TIF-G4, multi-page PDF and others

Large-Format

High-Speed

Incredible Quality

Features and Benefits

Large-Format Scanning That Works for You

When it comes to high-speed, high-quality, large-format 2D scanners, it doesn’t get better than the Contex HD Apeiron/42. This is the latest and greatest option from Contex — a company built with the goal of making your scanning experience as easy as possible. The Contex HD Apeiron/42 will fit seamlessly into your existing workflow, and it will dramatically speed up your operation. It’s easy to use and simple to set up, meaning that the scanner will start working for you in no time.

Delicate on Your Prints

If you’ve ever worked with very old hand drawings, you know how delicate they can be. A simple swipe the wrong way can tear your drawings and irreversibly damage them. The Contex HD Apeiron/42 avoids any potential for damage to your delicate prints.

  • Non-contact 2D scanning. As the best non-contact 2D scanner on the market, the Contex HD Apeiron/42 will make sure your drawings stay in one piece.
  • Perfect for old and ripped drawings. How many drawings do you have with tears in them already? Some might even be taped up in an effort to protect them. This scanner is perfect for drawings that you don’t want to damage.
  • Preserve your legacy work. Digitizing is only acceptable if the legacy drawing stays intact. The Contex HD Apeiron/42 keeps your drawings preserved.

Speed Up Your Digitization

Digitization is a trend we’ve seen a lot in the last decade. People are turning their hand drawings into PDFs and ultimately 3D CAD files, and that all starts with a 2D scan of the original drawing. This process is sped up with a Contex HD Apeiron/42 at your disposal. 

  • Blazing fast scanning speeds. With scanning speeds upwards of 6 ips, you can have a full E-sized drawing digitized in less than 8 seconds.
  • The best way to digitize. Digitizing with a camera and emailing yourself the picture has become completely obsolete with this industrial-grade 2D scanner.
  • Convert legacy drawings to 3D CAD easily. With your legacy drawing scanned, you can start the 3D CAD conversion process, helping your sales, engineering, production, and installation departments.

Easy to Use

With the Contex HD Apeiron/42, all of the guesswork of 2D scanning has been taken out. It’s really as simple as putting a drawing on a conveyor belt and pressing one button. Whether you’re brand-new to 2D scanning or have decades of experience (like our team does), you can easily use this machine.

  • Great for beginners. With zero previous experience, our interns used the Contex HD Apeiron/42 to digitize thousands of drawings in a matter of weeks — and you can, too.
  • Very little room for error. The Contex HD Apeiron/42 is almost entirely autonomous, taking away most of the potential for mistakes.
  • Just hit “go”. In most cases, you can start scanning dozens of documents with a single press of a button.

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A Charged Coupled Device (CCD) 2D scanner works just like your digital camera. The scanner itself has a lens that will reduce the scale of your image, which allows it to fully fit within the imaging sensor. Unlike your digital camera at home, a Contex scanner that uses CCD has an incredibly high-quality imaging sensor.

This allows the 2D scanner to capture high-quality, full-scale, color images of each drawing you scan, with even wider color space as compared to other 2D scanning technology. For large-format 2D scanning, the onboard camera might stitch together multiple images to create your final product. Through this technology, you’ll get image quality that is orders of magnitude better than CIS 2D scanning, with 64,000 shades of grey as compared to 256 shades offered by CIS scanners.

With a CCD scanner, environmental noise is much less impactful to the final quality and look of your scanned images. With a CCD 2D scanner, the operation is the same: you would feed in your large-format engineering drawings, choose what file format you’d like the output to be, and hit the “go” button. The scanner will move your drawing using its conveyor belt, and then capture a series of images with its sensors. On the backend, the 2D scanner will stitch together all of the images into a single, seamless image and send it in your desired file format.

Contex HD Apeiron/42 Technical Specs

Printing technology:

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Optical System

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Material

Substrate heating

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Forming chamber oxygen content

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Weight

Software

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Materials

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Max. speed | Max. acceleration

Speed | Acceleration (XY)

Layer Height

Size

Achievable Part Accuracy

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Print Speed

Position Repeatability

Bed Surface

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Monitoring

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Max. temperature

Power

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Optional Fume Extraction Airflow

Safety Certification

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Operating sound

Build plate leveling

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Supplied free software

Supported OS

Plugin integration

Supported file types

File transfer

Certification

Security certification

Print technology

Build volume (dual material)

Build volume

Technology

CCD

Maximum Resolution (interpolated)

5.1 inch (130 mm)

Optical Resolution

9600 dpi

Maximum Scan Size

1200 dpi

Maximum Image Area

64 inch (1625)

XYZ resolution

64 inch (1625)

Feeder type

10 inch (254 mm)

Maximum Media Length

64 inch (1625)

Maximum Media Thickness

10 inch (254 mm)

Table conveyance system

Precision timing belt transmission with triple-point direction control system

Lamp angles

Four options for different angles of lighting

Lamp specifications

No UV/IR radiation. No warm up time. Lifetime = scanner lifetime. LED spectrums: 2700K, 5000K, 6500K. 2 LED lamps with dual LED strips, mounted in elliptical reflectors.

Maximum Scan Width

42 inch (1067 mm)

Maximum Media Width

43.8 inch (1113 mm)

Accuracy

0.1% +/- 1 pixel

3D effect

Yes. Post-scanning option in the software to slide for desired 3D effect

Color Space

sRGB, Adobe RGB, Device RGB

Connectivity

Min. USB 3.0 SuperSpeed or Gigabit Ethernet

Document weight

Software / Nextimage TWAIN

File formats

Big TIFF, TIF, JPG, PDF, PDF/A, DWF, CALS, BMP, JPEG-2000(JP2), JPEG2000 Extended(JPX), TIF-G3, TIF-G4, multi-page PDF and others

Operating System

Windows 11 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit

CCD cameras

6 CCD cameras with Fujifilm lenses and quad-linear Toshiba CCDs (RGB and grey)

Depth of focus

+/- 10 mm (at 300 dpi)

Energy Star Compliant

Yes, version 3.0

Total number of pixels

256,320 pixels

Country of origin

Designed and engineered in Denmark, manufactured in China

Power supply

110 V / 230 V / 240 V, 60/50 Hz

Weight

Approx 412 lbs (187 kg) - no professional movers required

300 dpi

6 ips color scan speed

Recommended PC (not included)

2.4 GHz processor, 8 cores (16 logical processors) or better 64-bit processors, 32 GB RAM and SSD SATA drive (PC not included)

File compatibility

Maximum Scan Length

60 inch (1524 mm)

Included software

Nextimage Apeiron

Certifications/ Energy Star Compliant

FADGI **** (4 stars), CRI level >98, ISO 19264-1:2021 compliant,

Power consumption (ready/sleep/scan)

Ready (standby): 36W. Sleep: 1.3W. Scan: 76W (Energy Star® 3.0 compliant)

Certification

Security certification

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Why Buy from CAD/CAM Services?

Our team has been working as an authorized reseller of Contex systems for more than 30 years. For much of that time, we were the top-selling resellers in all of America. Why does that matter? It shows that we know these 2D scanners better than anyone else. At CAD/CAM Services, we also offer full-scale 2D scanning, digitization, and conversion services — for all of these projects, we only use Contex scanners. If you want help with your next scanning project or you want to buy a Contex scanner today, leverage our expertise. We’ll answer all of your questions and make everything crystal clear before you pay a cent.

We provide:

  • 2D Scanning
  • Raster to Vector Conversions
  • 2D and 3D CAD Digitization 
  • 2D and 3D Drafting, Design, and Engineering
  • Legacy 2D to 3D CAD Perfect Conversions

With every Contex purchase from CAD/CAM Services, you’ll get:

  • Preferred customer status — your job goes to the front of the line for expedited conversions.
  • One free CAD conversion for every twelve that you pay for at regular price — a “Baker’s Dozen” — to save you money all year long.
  • Private and secure customer log-in to automatically upload your files and download the converted projects, saving you time and keeping your projects protected.
  • 24/7 availability — yes, really.
  • Satisfaction guaranteed with each CAD Perfect conversion.

Price and purchase the Contex HD Apeiron/42 scanner now, call us at 1-800-938-SCAN, or email us at [email protected] for additional information.

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Why Buy from CAD/CAM Services?

Our team has been working as an authorized reseller of Contex systems for more than 30 years. For much of that time, we were the top-selling resellers in all of America. Why does that matter? It shows that we know these 2D scanners better than anyone else. At CAD/CAM Services, we also offer full-scale 2D scanning, digitization, and conversion services — for all of these projects, we only use Contex scanners. If you want help with your next scanning project or you want to buy a Contex scanner today, leverage our expertise. We’ll answer all of your questions and make everything crystal clear before you pay a cent.

We provide:

  • 2D Scanning
  • Raster to Vector Conversions
  • 2D and 3D CAD Digitization 
  • 2D and 3D Drafting, Design, and Engineering
  • Legacy 2D to 3D CAD Perfect Conversions

With every Contex purchase from CAD/CAM Services, you’ll get:

  • Preferred customer status — your job goes to the front of the line for expedited conversions.
  • One free CAD conversion for every twelve that you pay for at regular price — a “Baker’s Dozen” — to save you money all year long.
  • Private and secure customer log-in to automatically upload your files and download the converted projects, saving you time and keeping your projects protected.
  • 24/7 availability — yes, really.
  • Satisfaction guaranteed with each CAD Perfect conversion.

Price and purchase the Contex HD Apeiron/42 scanner now, call us at 1-800-938-SCAN, or email us at [email protected] for additional information.

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