Outsourcing We Can Get Behind
We have two boxes of 35 mm negatives at our headquarters gathering dust. Enter ScanCafe, a company headquartered in Northern California.
You pack up your images and mail them to ScanCafe. They count them up, and repackage them before shipping the pieces to India. In India they are scanned, touched up, rotated and then privately posted to your account at their website. You then go through the images online and select which ones you’d like to keep….After you’ve made your selection, Scan Cafe will send the originals back to the US and then from CA they will ship you a DVD/CD with your images and your originals. It takes 7-8 weeks door to door. The quality of scan is great for everything except huge billboard enlargements. The photos are scanned at 3000 dpi which gives a file about the quality of a 7 megapixel digital shot. You can scoop the final jpeg images into iPhoto or Flickr or Blurb books. They are rotated into correct up-down/sideways orientation by hand. They are clean and crisp.
on Thursday, October 11th, 2007, 10:48 pm in Brown, Photographs › 
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Not sure on how this is different from other companies like snapfish (which I think was founded by a desi), well except for sending stuff to India part.
It’s scanning old photos, not developing new ones.
My bad, I blazed thro the post.