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Do you clean the photos before scanning?

Yes. When necessary, we use compressed air to remove dust from slides and negatives. We use special professional grade photo cleaner on printed photos in need of dust removal. In addition, our scanners use Digital ICE technology for slides and negatives to automatically remove dust and minor scratches.

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What type of equipment do you use?

Scanorb has implemented a highly refined, professional process which utilizes the Epson 4490 and 4990 scanners for prints and the Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 ED for slides and negatives. Our process relies on Digital ICE during the initial processing phase, but every image is manually processed to remove any remaining blemishes, ensuring the highest quality available and providing unsurpassed customer care.

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We will manually rotate your photos and crop any black border left after the scanning process. In addition, we will color correct, remove dust, minor blemishes and digitally optimize the photos to provide you the best digital images possible. Scanorb was founded to provide the premier, highest quality services available; all of which are included with our standard pricing.

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If your computer has a DVD drive, DVDs are the preferred method as they hold approximately seven times the number of images that a CD holds. If you do not have access to a DVD drive, CDs will work fine. Scanorb includes one set of discs with every order free of charge. Additional copies can be included at the rate of $10 per copy. Photography DVDs are created as data discs and may not play in all DVD players. If your DVD player cannot play data discs, you can purchase a simple slideshow for $15 and your images will be loaded to a video DVD dis

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In most cases, scanning from negatives produces a higher quality result. Furthermore, organizing your photos based on a roll of negatives tends to be much easier. If possible please send in your negatives.

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DPI stands for dots per inch or pixels per inch. DPI represents the resolution, accuracy, sharpness and clarity of your digital picture. A higher DPI is generally associated with a higher quality image; however, if the DPI exceeds the resolution of the original media, a higher DPI can actual diminish the quality of the image. Our default scanning is performed at 300 DPI for paper photos which is more than sufficient for using your digital photos electronically and also provides the ability to reprint any photo in the same size as its original. We provide an option to scan your paper photos with 600 DPI and with this higher resolution you can enlarge your image to a size twice as large as the original. Based on millions of scans, we find that the optimal DPI levels are: 300 - 600 DPI for paper photos depending on your expected use and 2000 - 4000 DPI for slides and negatives. Scanorb's service includes the following: high resolution scanning, Kodak Digital ICE (to remove dust and blemishes) and manual processing to crop, rotate and color correct your photos.

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Definitely, Yes!!  Scanorb will accept your photo albums. Please provide albums that do not include photos that are permanently glued down. Scanorb will remove your photos, scan them and replace them. Scanorb charges $0.68 per image when scanning using a resolution of 300 dpi and $0.88 per image when scanning using a resolution of 600 dpi.

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Scanorb provide scanning for 35 mm negatives, 35 mm slides and printed paper photos up to 8" by 10". Our professional quality scanning equipment allows us to scan both black and white photos and color photos

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Your memories are irreplaceable. Your family probably has thousands of photos in multiple formats. The benefit of conversion to digital is twofold: first, by keeping a copy of your photos both on DVD/CD and online you preserve these memories forever. Secondly, modern technologies allow you to enjoy your digital photographs in many more ways than traditional printed photographs. With your photos in a digital format, you will be able to effortlessly organize, share, reprint and compile your photo library. In addition, simple software applications allow you to easily create customized slideshows or photo books for special occasions.

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Scanorb is the world's premier, photo digitization service. We provide high quality scans and provide them to you both on DVD or CD and through our online gallery. Using our fully interactive online gallery, you can share your photos with friends and family, upload additional digital images and compile an online collection of memories. Simply put, Scanorb provides the most user-friendly experience available. We place the customer at the center of everything we do throughout the entire order process.

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Our Services

Photo Scanning

Negative Scanning

Slide Scanning

Album Scanning

Other Materials

Video Transfer

Flim Transfer

Hard Drive Transfer

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No matter how old your memories are …… now warehouse them with #scanorb!!

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Check-out the unique process adopted by # scanorb.............to hoard your memories..... for all-time!!!!!

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Materials Deteriorate

 Fading

Photos and home movies are deteriorating for a number of reasons and there's only one thing you can do about it. To guarantee your family's archive of captured memories is preserved, they need to be archived digitally. One of the best reasons to convert your old photos, negatives, slides, videos and reel to reel film to digital format is to prevent the natural decaying process from stealing your favorite memories away from you. There are many reasons for the deterioration of those materials, but the primary factors include poor environmental conditions, inferior storage containers, and the deterioration of the actual chemical composition of the photographic or film materials.

Poor environmental conditions frequently occur in most homes and storage areas. The evil culprits are present every day: humidity, temperature and light. High humidity causes materials to become stick together due to the moisture whereas low humidity causes cracks and curls. High temperatures and visible light from sunlight and lamps also speed up the rate of deterioration. Even air pollution can cause the degradation of materials. Insufficient storage solutions often play a role in the deterioration of photographic and home movie material. Even the best storage options can be affected by temperature, light, and humidity. In addition, the acid from old photo albums alone can eat away at your memories. Storage areas also tend to be susceptible to insects and rodents who can damage your photos.

Environmental and storage factors aside, the stability of the chemical composition can also fade with time. Black and white negatives and prints use fairly stable silver halide. However, over time and in less than ideal conditions, the papers will yellow along with the gelatin matrix that makes up the image. If the image was not properly developed, that once crisp image can develop a metallic blur. Color images fair even worse off as the chromomeric dye color is not stable over time. The balance of old color photographs also change because the three different dyes that were used to print originally deteriorate at different rates. New ink jet prints and photographic processes are seeing better results, but as this technology is relatively young it has yet to stand the test of time.

So, the bottom line is that unless you have properly stored your professionally developed photos in non-corrosive, non-combustible, acid-free containers in a dark room with the proper humidity, away from insects, rodents, and dust making sure they were not too tight and not too loose, your images will deteriorate. Even if you go through these procedures, which hinder your ability to actually enjoy the images, your images may deteriorate anyway. There are a number of ways to help slow down the process, but the best way to guarantee your images are preserved is to digitally archive your images. Our team will not only preserve your images in their current state, but will also optimize your photos to reverse a little bit of that aging process.

Your Memories are Priceless

Your family's history is priceless. We all value stories of our own family's history and appreciate knowing where our roots stem from. This knowledge is shared through storytelling, usually with the help of old photographs and early home movie footage. This allows us to visualize the past and get to know family members that we'd otherwise never get to meet.

Scanning and editing take a lot of time. After you've spent time researching the equipment and editing software to purchase and have taught yourself how to use them properly, each individual photo will take several minutes to process. If you're like the average consumer, you have thousands of photos stored in boxes in your basement, so you can imagine how painstakingly time consuming this task will be if you do it yourself. For the average person, scanning your entire collection of photos will take every weekend for the next year. Certainly you have better things to do!

There's no greater gift you can give your future generations, than the gift of knowing where their family came from. Your family's history is invaluable and your one-of-a-kind photos and home movies are the only material documenting the past. Even if you regularly share stories with your children, there's only one way to assure the memories are preserved forever.

By converting your family's archive of old photos and home movies to digital format, you are ensuring those memories are passed down. Digital copies of your memories will stand the test of time against decay, damage and loss. Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and generations beyond will treasure your family's history and will appreciate having easy access to the old photos and home movies of their past. They will all be thankful that their family members were thoughtful to make sure those memories live on.

Your own history is important too. You've created endless memories with your loved ones, but likely have buried those thoughts away. In our busy lives, it's easy to forget about all the amazing experiences we've been lucky to enjoy. That's why it is so valuable to have photo and home movies documenting our lives.

Enjoying old photos and home movies brings back our own favorite memories. Details of your favorite vacations or times spent with your childhood friends seem to have been forgotten, but viewing those captured images refreshes those memories. Bring new life to your old memories with Scanorb to ensure your memories are always there for you to enjoy.

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Check-out how scanorb operates to stockpile your reminiscences .............

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Scanorb brings new life back to your old memories!!

# By converting your photos to digital format, you are protecting your images against dust, decay, scratches and other damaging effects of time.

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Your Memories are safe !!