Leaving paper behind: Sierra Vista business starts new slide scanning and photo scanning division
Sierra Vista Herald, November 12, 2007 Laura Ory
Tel: (520) 515-4683 E-mail: laura.ory@svherald.com
BY LAURA ORY
HERALD/REVIEW
SIERRA VISTA - After their own search for a way to digitize photographs, Tibby's Computers decided to start their own slide scanning and photo scanning service.
The recent wildfires in California serve as an example of how quickly families can lose their belongings, and family slides and photographs are usually one of the first things people try to save or recover from a disaster.
Even when repairing computers, customers are usually first concerned about losing their digital photographs.
When Tibbys Computers sent their own family photos to be scanned and saved on CD's what they got back wasn't what they hoped for.
Details in the photographs were missing from the scanned images and the colors didn't match. So, Tibbys decided to do the scanning themselves and create Arizona Scanning in the process.
After testing several different commercial grade scanners, Tibbys Computers chose one that scans with greater detail at 600 dots per inch, allowing photographs to be enlarged and, 3000 dots per inch, allowing slides to be enlarged if needed.
They also offer high speed service, scanning in 100 photos in under five minutes.
Customers can "leave paper behind" by having slides and photos stored on CD or DVD disks and by keeping copies of them in a safety deposit box or with relatives, so they won't have to worry about losing all their slides and photos in a disaster, Tibby said.
Tibby will offer the service nationally in January when he completes his Arizona Scanning Web site.
Photo enhancement, restoration services and DVD slideshows also will be available.
For information, call Arizona Scanning at 1-757-322-7630, or visit arizonascanning.com.
You can upload your ArizonaScanning scanned photos to any one of these popular
photo sharing websites. Click on the photo sharing icons below for more information.
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