Boson, MA. (PRWEB) July 20, 2011
We created TheBigScan.com to provide a service that simply doesnt exist: making the safest, highest quality scans of large originals, says John Lorusso, president of Parrot Digigraphic, LTD., the parent company of TheBigScan.com. You need to use the right tool for the job, and thats the Cruse Synchron system for reflective work, and the Kodak iQsmart3 scanner for film, and were the only people who have this equipment, know how to get the most from it, and make the service available to the public.
When faced with oversized originals, most labs and service bureaus will either use a digital camera and a copy stand to photograph them, a large flatbed with stitching software, or one of the so-called large-format document scanners designed for scanning technical documents and maps for low-fidelity presentation purposes. None of these solutions provide a true high-quality scan, and, in the case of the map and architectural drawing scanners, often cause serious damage to valuable originals. They just cant compete what the folks at TheBigScan.com are running.
The core of the equipment at TheBigScan.com is the Cruse Synchron system - long the favorite of museums, archives, publishers, government agencies and libraries for getting the absolute best resolution and color fidelity safely from irreplaceable originals and now, through TheBigScan.com, available to artists, collectors, galleries as well as historical societies, architects and small museums.
We can scan literally anything said Ted Dillard, Imaging Services Manager at TheBigScan.com, from vintage posters to maps and charts, to textiles, wallpaper, collage work, and even 3 dimensional pieces that require huge depth of field like pinball playtables. Weve even scanned body art on a full-figure, live body.
Besides the ability to scan large work, up to 48 x 72 in one pass, we have almost unlimited control over the lighting. I look at it more as if Im taking a photograph than making a scan, honestly We can enhance the texture of a piece, as in a painting with a strong brush stroke, or we can minimize it, as with a damaged, historical piece. Its like no other capture system Ive ever worked with, Dillard, a 25-year veteran commercial photographer continues.
At a 48 x 72 single-pass capture, the ability to do high-quality multi-pass scanning for even larger originals, and a high resolution, high DMAX film scanning capability of 12 x 18, TheBigScan.com seems a fitting title.
Because TheBigScan.coms pricing is in line with typical service bureau prices, they attract corporate, education and government clients, independent artists and individuals as well as providing support for the trade: Gicl
