This has only been part of our equipment for a few months but already it’s appreciated by our clients. When we started scanning we did a lot of print work on flatbeds, as you rightly say it takes ages. The new Kodak unit enables us to work better and offer a lower cost service.

The colour (sorry, you say color) boosting features are great, old photos just snap back to life.

Most of our clients are happy to have a good scan of the front of their photos but I’ve been surprised how much extra business we’ve got from people wanting both sides scanned. In the final output the front and back is kept in step, much like flipping the photo. This is popular with postcard collectors and people interested in their family tree. People often write a ‘who’s who’ on the back of photos, or details of when and where the snap was taken.

Yes the s1220 is an expensive device but for us at 1Scan it has already repaid its cost, and is opening new avenues of services it would have been commercially unrealistic to tackle on my flatbeds.

Jeff Underwood
http://www.1scan.co.uk