World Leader in Digital and Analog Document, Book and Film Scanning and Processing

Manufacturers of:

• Mekel Technology
• Wicks and Wilson
• HF Processors
• Extek Microsystems

MICROGRAPHICS: Microfilming. Film Duplication.
Film Generation from Digital

The More Things Change, The More Microfilm Matters

When The Crowley Company opened its doors as Crowley Micrographics in 1980, product mainstays included cameras, processors, silver and diazo duplicators, inspection equipment and accessories. Despite the trend toward electronic imaging and digital conversions in the 1990’s – a trend which Crowley has embraced and been a leader of – Crowley Imaging is among one of the few firms that has retained its micrographics core. Today, the division continues to provide a full range of micrographic services including:

• Preservation microfilming: 16mm/35mm/105mm
• Planetary, rotary and bound-book filming at multiple reductions ratios and film lengths
• Diazo and silver halide film duplication services
• Archival polysulfide treatment (brown toning) or silver microfilms
• Digital to film output of 16mm and 35mm archival films (grayscale/color)
• Film and fiche generation from digital-born images (archive writing)

Why is Microfilm Important?

Every few years, electronic storage takes on a new face. Hardware changes and short or errant storage life-spans (even spinning disks can lose information from a lack of power) can make access to the information contained on those devices difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Additionally, the cost of long-term storage as information moves into petabytes will become cost prohibitive for many. Archive writing – or generating microfilm from digitally-born information – ensures that the information will be available indefinitely in its purest form. Stored under proper conditions, microfilm can retain its images for up to 500 years, ensuring that archives and records remain available for the near – or very distant – future.

The Crowley Company firmly believes in – and continues to advocate for – the long term preservation benefits of microfilm through commitment to the continued development of state-of-the-art hardware (as manufacturers of HF Processors and Extek Microsystems micrographics equipment) and a dedication to providing preservation standard micrographics services.

Read about the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee collection, which has been both digitized and processed as microfilm

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