Photo Scanning

Pixmonix recently added a photo scanning service. We have done this work "informally" for years, but decided that we would formally launch and publicize it now.

Prior to formally launching this service, we investigated using a high-speed scanning system like those from Kodak. We were quite disappointed with the quality of the scans from these high speed scanners. The folks at Kodak really were no help in convincing us that they could do better and insisted that their scanners delivered comparable quality and met their quoted scanning resolution, even when we were holding evidence to the contrary. Quite disappointing... and another missed opportunity for Kodak. We have some samples from these high-speed scanners compared to those from our high end flatbed scanners on our website.

In short, the high speed scanners fell short for sharpness and color quality. They compared very poorly with the flatbed scans, even when we compared 600 PPI scans from the Kodak scanners with 300 PPI scans from our flatbeds.

We know that some of our competitors are using this technology to offer very low priced scans. Some are even proud of their use of these techniques - in part, I'm sure, because Kodak gives them some free advertising and high quality web links from the Kodak site. Buyer beware! Sometimes you do get what you pay for.