Digitization Services for Commercial and Institutional Customers

Commercial and institutional customers have different needs than our customers scanning family photo collections. We understand this and we can provide the extra support and services needed to make complex digitization projects successful. We have worked with commercial and institutional organizations from across the US and Canada. Our commercial clients include artists, photographers, doctors, dentists, legal services firms, financial services companies, clothing designers and manufacturers, and archival preservation companies. Institutional customers include public and private schools, libraries, teachers, museums, professors, historical societies, universities, airports, and the Department of Defense.

Benefits of Working with Pixmonix

Security: All of our work is done in our offices in one location in Los Angeles, CA. Your slides, negatives, photos, video and film are only in the hands of our technicians or UPS while they are out of your offices. We do not outsource any of our scanning or conversion work to India or Costa Rica like our competitors. We have a very secure, controlled environment with very limited access. Your materials are safe with us.

Results: We get great results. Though we process millions of scans each year, we are relentlessly focused on providing great results. Images that we produce are consistent, high quality, and uniformly treated. This is difficult to achieve if you are doing a few images at a time over an extended time period or using employees that are temporary or primarily dedicated to other tasks. Our people are very experienced with producing great quality digital images from scans and digital video from film and video tapes. Our goal is to provide you with digital images and video that you can view without any further work.

Value: We include everything that you need to have useful images right off of the DVD or hard drive - including careful cropping, color and exposure correction and generation of any required JPEG images. We will structure our processes in a way that is catered to your use. This includes producing files that do not need additional image processing for your uses, generating files in either JPEG or TIFF format and delivering the images on media that make sense for you. All of this catering is included in our base pricing.

Speed: We can complete a large scanning effort in a fraction of the time it would take a single person to do the work (or the time that our competitors take to ship your materials overseas for processing). We employ multiple technicians and a large pool of scanners and computers to do the work. We have optimized our systems for both quality and speed.

Focus: Converting your media to digital is our focus. We have developed systems to make us efficient and economical while still getting fantastic quality. Our technicians are trained to do nothing other than convert and process images, video and film to digital. We have a large number of scanners and computers to execute the conversion to digital and processing quickly and efficiently. This is very difficult to reproduce without a sizable investment of time, effort and money.

• File types: The type and number of digital image files we return to you is determined based on your specific needs.

• Color spaces: The color spaces of the digital images can be catered according to your existing digital asset practices and current needs.

• Sharpening: We can cater the image sharpening that we do based on the intended usages of the digital images.

• File naming: We can name digital files according to your desires, including per-image naming.

• Reference prints: Custom generated and printed contact sheets or other printed references are available.

Digital Image File Format Considerations

We can return digital images in TIFF or JPEG format. We can return multiple file formats (e.g., JPEG and TIFF) for an additional cost if you want more than one file type. We can provide edited and unedited image files as well for an additional cost. TIFF files aren't compressed allowing for a lossless digital image. JPEG files are compressed allowing for a better use of storage space. We will work with you to determine the best formats for your project. We normally return images in JPEG format unless you specifically request TIFF files.

We are happy to return images on an external hard drive. You can provide us with a personal external hard drive, or purchase one from us. If you send us your external hard drive, be sure to include all necessary power cables and wires to plug it into our computer via USB port. All customer drives need to be blank when received because we reformat all drives during our transfer process.

If you have other requirements for the digital image files resulting from your project, please let us know.

Film and Digital Image Security

Additionally, we hold the raw and processed scanned digital images on our servers after returning materials to you. Our storage servers are not accessible from the Internet and use redundant storage mechanisms to avoid problems due to hardware failures. These factors provide and extra level of assurance that your images will not be lost due to problems in transit (though this has never happened).

Delivery Times

We offer a lot of flexibility to meet your needs. We can return thousands of images each week, or we are happy to work on projects over longer periods. Our resources are highly scalable for large projects. When you have determined specific goals and schedules for your project, we will work with you to develop a digitization timeline that meets your targets.