Choosing a partner to scan your family heirlooms is not a decision to be taken lightly. Your slides, negatives and prints are the most valuable items in your home. But there are three attributes you must consider when making this decision: quality, price, and trust.
Lovely Lucy's first day at school.
She is now 62; a grandmother.
Quality is critical. Make sure your memories receive the attention to detail they deserve. Also, you only want to go through this process once so you need it to be done well. Give your memories the gift of life and choose a service with the quality in craftsmanship that will make them whole again.
There are over 5,000 analog images in the average American household. Most, if not all, of these images deserve to be digitized. So an affordable price is a critical enabler. But make sure you know what you are getting. You can review our price comparison table to see how we stack up.
Trust is crucial. You must have confidence that your photo, slide and negative scanning partner will treat your images as if they were their very own. Please make sure you conduct the appropriate due diligence and invest in this decision. Your memories deserve the highest level of professionalism and skill.
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Price | At 600 dpi, ScanCafe provides the highest quality at the best price | Our best value for customers is 3000 dpi negatives at 37 cents per scan. | Our best value for customers is 3000 dpi negatives at 37 cents per scan. |
Free Services | Color correction, Red-eye removal, cropping, and dust-scratch removal | Color correction, Red-eye removal, cropping, and dust-scratch removal | Color correction, Red-eye removal, cropping, and dust-scratch removal |
Our highly trained technicians spend 4-5 minutes on each image to make sure we are providing the highest quality. Finally, if your photos are damaged, ScanCafe provides first-class photo restoration services.
ScanCafe scans 35mm, 126, 127, and 120 slides.
It’s that same old problem: you have a ton of pictures stored in shoe boxes and you want to bring those pictures back to life through scanning technologies. You don't have the time to do it yourself. The rub has been that you still need to invest a large amount of time sifting through the photos, slides and negatives to determine which ones you want to get scanned - lots of people in your shoes just shove the box back in the closet. Well – the ScanCafe Revolution has a simple answer to this problem: "Smart Choice" that makes it easier than previously thought possible for you to get your photographs, slides or negative filmed scanned. Simply put, we let you select the images you want to keep after they have been scanned. This means no more pre-sorting requirement! Once scanned, you then review the images from the comfort of your home computer and simply delete the images you do not want - this saves you tons of time upfront from having to look at each negative and slide under a light source and trying to determine which one you actually want to get scanned. Our only requirement is that you buy at least 20% of the images you send us. To summarize - collect your negatives; place an order at www.scancafe.com; print out the shipping label we generate for you; and drop the box at any UPS location. NO SINGLE OTHER scanning service in the market allows you such freedom and flexibility - join the ScanCafe revolution.
Negatives can be extremely tough to select, which is why we let you choose what you like, after we scan them.
Chances are you don’t know a lot about scanning – which is why you visited ScanCafe in the first place. We want to be the partner in your scanning and digitization efforts. We firmly believe that efficient and responsive Customer Service is critical to success. At ScanCafe, our Indianapolis based customer support team can walk you through the entire service and answer any questions you have about the scanning or ordering process. We believe that we have made it easy for you to place an order on your own, but sometimes it is nice to hear a voice on the other end of the line so feel free to call us if you need to. You can also refer to our testimonials which speak about our stellar Customer Support team. So, if you have any questions or comments you can email us at [email protected] or call us at 1-866-234-3909. If you miss us live, we'll get back to you with a clear and concise answer, usually within hours of receipt of the message.
0No. of minutes you have to spend organizing your order before you send it to us. You can organize it later, online, and pay for the scans you want to keep.
We count hundreds of working photographers among our customers, including the legendary Peter Guttman ,Travel Journalist, who has joined our Advisory Board..
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With ScanCafe, you get to review your scans before you settle your bill. You can delete up to 20% of your scans if you don't want them--no questions asked!
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The only real guarantee in the business. If something happens to your originals while we have them, we’ll pay you up to $1,000.
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"I just received the DVD and slides. I was impressed by two things. First, my slides came back in the same banded groups and in the same Ziploc bags, and with the same Post-It labels I had put on each, just as I sent them to you. Second, the DVD was organized the same way, the scans were very good, and each JPG was titled and numbered in the same sequence, even across groups, which made it very easy for me to transfer to my PC and rename groups as I needed to. Thank you for a very nice job. I will be readying my next set of slides for you to scan shortly. "
- Michael W., Plano TX (February 2008)
"ScanCafe delivers on everything it promises! Great system all the way through - very easy to send everything in...the DVD was organized into folders just as I had requested, and you easily saved me 20-30 hours of work scanning these in myself...Thanks guys, and best wishes for all the success you deserve for putting together such a great service!!
- Kevin H., Yardley PA (February 2008)