Contex

Employee Size

51-200

Organization Type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Rockville, MD

Founded in 1923 making printing machines and calculators, Contex now designs large-format scanning solutions that turn oversized plans, drawings and delicate originals into usable digital files. The company evolved into large-format scanning by the early 1980s and operates worldwide from its Denmark headquarters as a division of Global Scanning. Its HD Apeiron/42 stands out for contact-free capture of artwork and other fragile or thick originals, with four-star FADGI and ISO 19264-1 compliance.

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