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"This is absolutely mind-blowing quality stuff. I thought some of these were essentially unsalvageable."
Dan
Elk Grove, CA
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PTN May 2007 issue
By Diane Berkenfeld, PTN Editor
(The following is an excerpt. To read the entire article, click this link http://www.imaginginfo.com/print/PTN/Digitizing-Film-Based-Photographs/2$2539)
Archiving service generates revenue for retailers and labs
Arik Paran is president of Digital Pickle, a company that specializes in the preservation services of all types of media—from photographic slides and negatives to prints, movie footage, video, and audio onto CD and DVD. The company, whose whimsical name often elicits cries of "I'm in a pickle," was founded in 2004. Paran purchased the San Francisco–based company a year ago. He explains the company's name means preservation, since pickling food is preserving it.
Paran sees a growing demand for archiving services. He says his company has archived hundreds of thousands of still images, and millions of feet of film. He notes that about 50% of the company's business is from local customers who are uneasy about trusting their precious memories to a shipping company and instead choose to use someone local. The other half of the business is via the web.
Paran says what sets Digital Pickle apart from its competition is the company's hands-on attitude. "One of the different things about us is [our] high touch, high quality, and high technology," he explains. Paran says that utilizing the right equipment, such as the Kodak document scanners, "offers us the ability to do the work and compete with companies who send work offshore."
Digital Pickle archives customer files onto Gold CD and DVD media. The company also recommends to its customers that they store the discs in a safe location and make duplicates, as well as store the files on hard drives for redundancy.
For more information, visit http://www.digitalpickle.com.
Please Contact:
Arik Paran
(415) 861-4565
arik@digitalpickle.com
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