Our Large Format equipment is capable of digitising items ranging in size from A1 (84cm x 59cm) up to approximately 1.5 x A0 (150cm x 100cm).

WHAT IS OUR LARGE FORMAT EQUIPMENT USED FOR?

This equipment is capable of digitising all manner of materials from paper to board, from canvas to textiles. It can digitise items of any thickness too.

This equipment can be used to digitise:

maps paintings posters drawings large manuscripts wooden carvings cemetery plot maps

newspapers plans banners wallpapers flags tithe maps textiles

CONCERNED ABOUT TRANSPORTING YOUR ITEMS?

We are happy to come to your premises with our own staff and vehicles to personally collect and return your items.

FILE FORMATS & ACCESSING THE IMAGES

We will generally produce image files at 300dpi in tiff and jpeg formats, although we can produce other file formats such as pdf, bmp etc. Images can be produced in full colour or greyscale and we can enhance or graphically restore them too.

We can supply our software to view and add meta-data to the images. This software is web based which means you can access it from anywhere that has an internet connection. Find out more about our ARCVIEW SYSTEM.

If you are interested in displaying your images online for the public to view then we can build websites or web pages (that sit within your existing website) that incorporate search engines and payment gateways so that the public can find and then pay for your images to be downloaded. Find out more about our WEB & SOFTWARE SERVICES.

FLAT-BED EQUIPMENT

We never use roll-feed equipment. All of our equipment is flat-bed. Why?...

The historical items that we handle are often fragile and deteriorating. Using flat-bed equipment ensures that no physical contact is made with the original which eliminates the risk of further damage.

Flat-bed equipment also ensures that we can digitise almost any kind of material including paper, board, tiles, wood, textile, canvas, bound books etc.

We use a gantry system to raise and lower the head which means that we are not restricted as to the physical thickness of the media being digitised - the media can be as thin as a postage stamp or as thick as an Oak Tree!

Using a gantry system also allows us to raise the head as high as we need to in order to capture the full media beneath - this has allowed us to capture documents at around 1.5 x A0 in size without any need for stitching (graphically combining two images together to make one image).

Furthermore we only use high frequency, diffused and non heat producing lighting - thus further eliminating any risk of damage to the precious originals.

WOULD YOU LIKE FURTHER INFORMATION?

If you would like to learn more about our services then please feel free to contact us by phone (0870 7558506) or email.

You can also request a FREE QUOTATION.