Graphic Arts Scanning and Photo Digitization

Graphic Arts Scanning, Photo Digitization from Film, Nitrate Film, and Reflective Prints

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The Crowley Company provides high-quality film, nitrate film, and reflective print reformatting services for the photo digitization and archiving of large-volume photographic collections. With decades of experience, Crowley’s digitizing services represent the largest photographic film and print scanning capabilities in the industry with a throughput capacity of thousands of images per day.

Get high-quality digital images from:

• Black and white photographs
• Color photographs
• 35 mm and 120 mm film, negatives and slides
• 4×5” through 8×10” films and reflective prints
• 16 mm and 35 mm nitrate film strips and 4×5″ nitrate film sheets
• Line art up to 34×48” in size
• Glass plates
• Daguerreotypes
• Tintypes
• Ambrotypes

Crowley’s photo digitization services division utilizes a wide variety of commercial and custom equipment, including large format and flatbed scanners, the cutting-edge Zeutschel ScanStudio system and other brand-name overhead digital camera systems and graphic arts scanners. Depending on the original medium, equipment is often modified by Crowley’s in-house engineering team to produce optimal results for both efficiency and image quality – all to provide the best value for the end-product. One such example occurred during the photo digitization of nearly 10 million photographic images for the Life Photo Archive.

A custom workflow application allows Crowley to track multiple media types throughout the check-in, preparation, scanning, metadata entry and quality control processes – essential to collections that contain various formats of media. Clients find that Crowley’s total conversion solution produces results worthy of the original collection.

With nitrate film, Crowley has a comprehensive full-cycle digitization service that handles nitrate sheet film and microfilm collections with meticulous care, offering secure storage, high-resolution scanning and responsible disposal of original nitrate films once digital images are approved.

System Implementation

Crowley programmers have proven experience in working with clients to ensure that image file output can integrate into the wide array of image access solutions, partnering on custom solutions when needed. Whether image access needs are internal, external or for web distribution, Crowley can help to integrate digitized collections into any workflow.

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