Fire, flooding, a misplaced photo album. All of these things can be potentially disastrous for our family photos. We can scan your photos and documents to protect them from being lost to the future. Photos are scanned at 600 dpi. It also includes basic color correction and cropping. To enhance your photos. Your files are returned to you on an External Hard Drive or Flash drive you provide, or you may purchase one from us. Price dependent on memory size needed.
Most photos we are able to scan with an automatic feeder if they are 3 ½ x 5” up to 8.5 x 11” and flat. We have multiple different scanners we use depending on the type of item and the condition. We have the capacity to scan items up to 12″x17″ with a single scan. We have the capabilities to scan larger items in multiple passes if needed. Printed photos are scanned at 600 dpi.
Photo or Scrapbooks:
Scrapbooks & Photos albums: 12″x12″, flatbed scanned at 300dpi or 600dpi
Additional Questions:
How will my items be returned to me?
They will be in jpg format, the jpg format is universally standard and easy to open and share. If you want another format let us know when you place your order. Additional fee maybe charged for larger Tiff files for example.
High resolution scanning or Artwork scanning?
We Can help with artwork or higher resolution scanning if needed. Please contact us for more information.
How many copies of my files will I get?
We will make up to 5 copies at no additional cost with purchase or delivery of the Flash Drives or External Hard Drives. We want you to have redundancy to help keep your memories secure.
What type of flash drives or external hard drives should I get?
When your order is complete we will tell you the amount of space your files use. When purchasing always get slightly larger than the amount of space needed as they are not actually the exact size stated on the package. Go with name brand and the 3.0 or higher generation for speed of transfer. Here are our suggestions for
Flash drives: 128 gb Sandisk and 256 gb Sandisk
External hard drives are larger and are great for storing all your video and photo files.
External hard drives :2 TB WD, 5 TB WD
Couldn’t I just scan my prints myself?
Technically you could, however without specialized scanners it is a long process to scan them at a high enough resolution to get good quality photo files. At Pixologie Digital Solutions we use a Kodak Alaris PS80 photo scanner, which has a legal flatbed scanner attachment with specialized software that optimizes images. This equipment allows us to efficiently scan prints at a high resolution, giving you a quality scan of your photo.
Your photos are done in house, by hand. Older and fragile photos get the “white glove treatment”.
What is DPI, and why so many?
DPI stands for “Dots Per Inch”. Which isn’t really dots per inch, but really pixels per linear inch. The goal in scanning is to gain as much information in scanning as you would need for future use. For printed photos 600 dpi is generally thought of as the “sweet spot” not too much but not too little. If you scan lower dpi for photos you won’t have the information in the file to enlarge a photo if you chose to in the future. On the other hand, things with texture and newspaper print have to be scanned at a lower resolution or they look grainy. Scanning at too high of a dpi and you have such large files that they are difficult to manipulate and share. If you are going to do a great deal of editing you may want a higher resolution but that isn’t common for family photos.
