Prints, slides, negatives, sheet film, artwork — and whole shoeboxes of family history. Every scan is made in our own shop in Tucson, by the people you talk to, and your originals stay in the building the whole time.
“Scanning” means different things to different people. Most of what comes through our door falls into one of these four groups — and each one is handled a little differently.
Old photographs, studio portraits, snapshots, album pages and the occasional tintype. We scan each one carefully at a resolution that lets you reprint, restore and share it — and we handle fragile, curled or torn prints by hand.
35mm slides and negatives, medium-format and sheet film, color and black-and-white. Film holds far more detail than most people expect, and a proper scan brings it back.
Paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints scanned for reproduction, where the scan has to be faithful enough to print from. An experienced technician adjusts color, density and contrast against the original and spots the dust by hand.
This is the one that turns into a project. People bring in boxes — plural, and sometimes three feet on a side — of loose photos going back generations. The scanning is the easy part; the real work is deciding what matters.
Bring the boxes in as they are. Before anything goes on a scanner, we’ll go through them with you at the counter and figure out what you’ve actually got and what you’d like to end up with.
That’s all it takes to turn a box of loose photos into something your family will actually use. Once we know the answers, the scanning, sorting and naming are the easy part.
No need to sort or count first. Bring the box, the album or the slide carousel as it is, and we’ll look at it together.
We go through what you have, what you want to do with it, and which scanning method suits it. You get a clear price before we begin.
All scanning is done on the premises by our own staff. Your originals stay in the building and come back to you the way they arrived.
Scans are delivered organized the way we planned, as archive-quality TIFs and easy-to-share JPGs — ready for printing, restoring or passing on.
4001 E. Pima Street, Tucson · Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm · (520) 325-0065
