Posts Tagged ‘Microfilm’
Quantum Happiness
Last week we received the kind of email every business wants to receive: a glowing review, a good tip and an idea for further engagement – the trifecta of customer response. A State Archivist wrote: “After framing the first fiche…in QuantumProcess, I used “Progogate this page” and since they [the images] were all shot the same, it took very minor tweaking to get the rest perfect. These machines are more flexible than I ever imagined. Is there an official forum…
Selling to the Competition
I recently interviewed a client for an upcoming case study on Mekel Technology microfilm and microfiche scanners. The client represents a service bureau and asked a question we hear often, “We’re Crowley competitors. How do you represent us and yourselves at the same time?” Good question. Crowley has several divisions: research and development; manufacturing; hardware sales; technical support and Crowley Imaging, our own service bureau. In addition to selling to service bureaus, with which we compete, we also manufacture…
Behind the Film: Creating and Maintaining Microfilm
In a recent blog post, we continued the discussion on why microfilm as a preservation media remains relevant in today’s archival and records management industries due to its long lifespan, utility for disaster recovery, image quality, and other factors. As a follow-up to this conversation, I was curious about the behind-the-scenes and wanted to discover how people preserve information on microfilm. Fortunately, there is a fully-staffed conversion service bureau just a few yards from where I sit, and I was…
“Conventional data backup is not a preservation process”
Why the microfilm conversation continues A few days ago, I posted this comment to several relevant Linkedin groups: “Interesting headline in USA Today, but misleading as the archives and records management industries agree that microfilm remains relevant as a preservation media.” The rest of the comment then pointed to a prior blogpost I’d written on why microfilm remains important today. The headline itself mentioned “a major fight over microfilm” when in fact the discord is over client base and not…
One Man. Wicks and Wilson Scanners. 26+ Million Newspaper Images
At Crowley, we love discovering great digital collections – especially when they’ve been scanned on our manufactured capture equipment. Even after more than 30 years, the idea of making images and information from the past available to records managers, archivists, researchers, students and history junkies today and in the future is exciting. When we saw this reason.tv feature on long-time Wicks and Wilson client, Tom Tryniski, and his astonishing 26 million+ newspaper images scanned, we just had to dig…
March is in Like a Lion…and Crowley Appreciates the Roar
Oscar worthy? You decide! March brings Crowley’s first professionally-produced video featuring the UScan+ Universal Film Scanner: Weather aside (because let’s face it, Mother Nature has worn that topic out this winter), Crowley’s month has started with a roar and we’d be quite happy if the proverbial lamb took an extended leave of absence so that the excitement can continue. Here’s what’s up: Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U.S.A., Inc. is a UScan+ Reseller True story. As of the first Monday in…
Introducing the USCAN+, the only Universal Scanner with USB3 Capability
The Crowley Company is very excited to introduce the UScan+ and its brand new Patron software package at next week’s American Library Association MidWinter Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, PA. The original UScan Universal Film (UF) scanner was released in June 2012 and was quickly embraced by end-users – particularly libraries – for its small footprint, affordable pricing and user simplicity. “This next generation is the result of customer feedback and their desire for additional features,” explains The Crowley Company…
The Continued Importance of Microfilm
The Story Behind Microfilm We are a society built on the blood, sweat and tears of the previous generation. Everything we have now can be traced back to our ancestors: our government, our technology, our language and so much more. We constantly build on the work of the previous generation. And we learned long ago that an oral tradition could only take us so far. In order to truly thrive, society needed a better form of preservation. Thus, the written…