Scanning Digital Images to Microfilm – A Recipe for Archival Success

If you are currently scanning large numbers of historical documents or capturing digital photographs of artefacts in your collections then , because of the known problems of the long term preservation of electronic files, you may wish to benefit from our digital-to-microfilm service. Here at Microform we are able to take any JPEG, TIFF, PDF, DOC, BMP and XLS digital document in bitonal, greyscale or colour and write the image to 16mm or 35mm microfilm.

The pro's of scanned digital images:

• Immediate Retrieval
• Reduced Storage Space
• Ability to Share

The con's of digital images:

• Not guaranteed to be compatible with future advances in technology.
• When transferring images to a new system you can loose up-to 5% of the images during transfer.
• Susceptible to computer viruses.

The Pro's of microfilm

• Guaranteed life expectancy of up to 500 years.
• Future proof format.
• Will always be able to be scanned to a digital medium.