So we were looking into scanning all the William Twigg-Smith negatives (around 25,000 of them!), and of course pricing and quality were the biggest issues. The best price from a local company per scan was $7.50, but Jeff Pfeffer recommended www.scancafe.com, which charges around 24 cents per scan.
I just looked at their site and it seems that they've got a good system in place. We send the negatives via UPS, and they scan the entirety of what we send them, then they allow us to look at the scans and choose which ones to keep. You only pay for what you keep. This page describes the entire process: http://www.scancafe.com/how/scanning-how-it-works .
Jeff has used them multiple times with good results. I've read five or six online reviews about ScanCafe, and all were positive. So I, for one, would trust them with the scanning of the WT-S archive. Any thoughts on this?
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I think this sounds like a great solution. Thanks for looking into it. I think the board should approve to send the first 100 negatives to scancafe and then report back on the process and resulting images. Pat, Maya, Michael, Isis, Maggie, Lisa? Any thoughts?
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