One of our greatest assets is Kodak - of course we don’t own Kodak, we just own some of their scanning technology. One of the best features of being connected with Kodak is the tremendous confidence our clients can have in our photo scanning service because we operate under the Kodak label.
Equally I’d have to say Kodak don’t have the racy, cutting edge image held by some companies. Kodak’s great but they’re not Facebook. But Kodak are about to launch a great new advertising campaign based around the theme of sharing. For us it’s a revelation, and very well timed. We scan photos, that’s the core of our business, but our clients typically want their pictures scanned so they can, yes, so they can share them. Thanks Kodak.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Photo Scanning Service - No1 in Switzerland
Photo scanning services are international - photos and digital photo files are the same the world over, no need to translate the language, rewrite a manual, a smiling face is a smiling face in London, Lisbon, Los Angeles or Lagos.
We have photo scanning clients from several parts of Europe. We’ve scanned photos mailed in from Belgium, France, Germany and part so Scandinavia ( Norway, Finland and Sweden ). One great feature of billing in PayPal is that we can invoice in sterling and clients can pay in their local currency.
We haven’t targeted our marketing at Europe, we focus our efforts on the UK, but I did notice on Friday that for some reason Google had ranked us No 1 for “photo scanning” and “photo scanning service” in Switzerland. I was surprised as I’d expected those places would go to a site describing photo scanning in French, German or Italian. Thanks Google, it was nice of you.
You can imagine my surprise when the post on Saturday included a parcel of photos to be scanned from a client in Switzerland. Our first Swiss photo scanning order.
We have photo scanning clients from several parts of Europe. We’ve scanned photos mailed in from Belgium, France, Germany and part so Scandinavia ( Norway, Finland and Sweden ). One great feature of billing in PayPal is that we can invoice in sterling and clients can pay in their local currency.
We haven’t targeted our marketing at Europe, we focus our efforts on the UK, but I did notice on Friday that for some reason Google had ranked us No 1 for “photo scanning” and “photo scanning service” in Switzerland. I was surprised as I’d expected those places would go to a site describing photo scanning in French, German or Italian. Thanks Google, it was nice of you.
You can imagine my surprise when the post on Saturday included a parcel of photos to be scanned from a client in Switzerland. Our first Swiss photo scanning order.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
International Print Service
Photo scanning, negative or slide scanning - it is usually done for a reason. I often think of “fancy” applications like acrylic mounted images but in reality the most popular use of a scanned photo is simply to produce other photos. Yes, photo scanning is often a gateway to photo reprints.
What if the people who want reprints are abroad? Well, if you take advantage of our free online album service you can give access to your images to anyone you choose. Once online they can pick the images they like, the size and quantity they need and place an order. Our service has a worldwide fulfilment capacity so they’ll get what they want wherever they may be. Oh, and they can pay for reprints directly.
What if the people who want reprints are abroad? Well, if you take advantage of our free online album service you can give access to your images to anyone you choose. Once online they can pick the images they like, the size and quantity they need and place an order. Our service has a worldwide fulfilment capacity so they’ll get what they want wherever they may be. Oh, and they can pay for reprints directly.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Photo Scanning - the Olympics?
Photo scanning - what’s so great about that? I was floored by the question, in all honesty ensuring thousands of photos run smoothly through our scanners isn’t the most exciting thing you can spend your life doing. But after scratching my head I came up with some ideas.
First - volume. OK, it’s dull, but we suffer the dullness so you don’t have to. We are great facilitators of thousands of images per day moving from dull old photos to sparkling digital files. And they’re all the right way round.
Second - we revive faded colours. Time takes its toll but with the press of a button we can bring back much of what faded away.
Third - on line albums. Increasingly people are pleased with the online albums we create for them. Looking at the site stats they’re using these free photo albums to share memories all over the world. Yes, and they’re free.
Fourth - customer feedback. We like it when we get positive feedback about the photos we scan. We know that going from a hard copy photo into a digital photo world enables people to enjoy their images in new, creative ways.
OK, photo scanning will never be an olympic sport but it does deliver real benefits to a lot of people, and we help thousands of photos each week become safe from fire, flood and disaster.
First - volume. OK, it’s dull, but we suffer the dullness so you don’t have to. We are great facilitators of thousands of images per day moving from dull old photos to sparkling digital files. And they’re all the right way round.
Second - we revive faded colours. Time takes its toll but with the press of a button we can bring back much of what faded away.
Third - on line albums. Increasingly people are pleased with the online albums we create for them. Looking at the site stats they’re using these free photo albums to share memories all over the world. Yes, and they’re free.
Fourth - customer feedback. We like it when we get positive feedback about the photos we scan. We know that going from a hard copy photo into a digital photo world enables people to enjoy their images in new, creative ways.
OK, photo scanning will never be an olympic sport but it does deliver real benefits to a lot of people, and we help thousands of photos each week become safe from fire, flood and disaster.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
You and The Queen on Stamps?
Standing in the queue in the Post Office I was distracted by their rolling display, and something they call Smilers. It’s the most brilliant idea.
You can find out more at the Royal Mail web site (royalmail.com) but in essence you supply an image and they’ll print that image next to a proper postage stamp. You stick them both side by side on your letter, in great colours too. What a brilliant way to add a personal dimension to your mail.
You can find out more at the Royal Mail web site (royalmail.com) but in essence you supply an image and they’ll print that image next to a proper postage stamp. You stick them both side by side on your letter, in great colours too. What a brilliant way to add a personal dimension to your mail.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Bridge to Photo Smiles
We scan through thousands of photos each week and it’s great to know our work is appreciated. Earlier today while looking through our website logs I came across this post on a client’s blog, which is on the Ecatsbridge website..
It is the day of the Portland pairs, the National Mixed Pairs Championship, which is scored by ECatsBridge, so even though it is a Sunday we are here in case we are needed ... which is a bit of a pity as it is a lovely sunny day. So I am dealing with some emails first, but then while I wait and I am going to do a bit of gardening (with my mobile phone at my side!) then spend some time tagging photographs. We got loads of old pictures scanned recently – a great company called 1Scan (http://www.1scan.co.uk/) ... some of the pictures had a dreadful colour cast and they fixed them beautifully. So now I have to get them into some semblance of order so we can find the ones we want !
It is the day of the Portland pairs, the National Mixed Pairs Championship, which is scored by ECatsBridge, so even though it is a Sunday we are here in case we are needed ... which is a bit of a pity as it is a lovely sunny day. So I am dealing with some emails first, but then while I wait and I am going to do a bit of gardening (with my mobile phone at my side!) then spend some time tagging photographs. We got loads of old pictures scanned recently – a great company called 1Scan (http://www.1scan.co.uk/) ... some of the pictures had a dreadful colour cast and they fixed them beautifully. So now I have to get them into some semblance of order so we can find the ones we want !
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