A large stack of $100 bills catches on fire in the vault of the local branch bank. The banker does not worry too much. Everything is insured. While very valuable, those paper bills can be replaced.
True damage from fires, natural disasters, and the ravages of time are really felt when we lose things that are irreplaceable, such as unique papers. For businesses, most valuable papers are in the form of contracts, files, and other such documents.
But what are your most precious papers at home? If a fire or flood broke out involving your home tonight, after making sure that your loved ones were safe what would you grab first?
Most likely saving your last seven years of Federal Income Tax Returns didn't even come to mind! In fact, as humans with friends and emotions, the most common answer to this question is about how people want to try and preserve the collective memories they have accumulated through their photographs.
Making it easy to connect paper photo memories...Here, There, or Together
Just like with paper documents, photos can be scanned! Once digital, your photos can then be shared, protected, preserved, and enjoyed...now, and for generations to come. In 2008, New York Times Columnist David Pogue wrote: "if you, like millions before you, have a collection of prints somewhere, it’s probably crossed your mind that they really ought to be scanned . . . [but] let’s face it: scanning hundreds or thousands of photos yourself, one at a time, on a home scanner, is a time drain the size of the Grand Canyon."
Over the past several years a number options have become available, other than having to deal with the slow water torture syndrome mentioned in Pogue's article. In-store Do-It-Yourself kiosks have popped up in major merchandise retailers and drugstore outlets throughout the country with dedicated equipment designed to render high quality scanning of paper photographs. Internet based mail-in photo scanning services now allow you to bundle up your photos and ship them to be professionally scanned by a company that has the experience and equipment.
Beginning in June 2010, i/oTrak's E-Z Scan team of imaging experts will now be available to assist in ensuring treasured moments captured onto paper photographs are there to share with family, friends, loved ones and the generations to come. E-Z Scan, powered by i/oTrak will be offering KODAK's best-in-class Photo Scanning System along with a unique way to make it easy to connect paper photo memories...here, there, or together.
Your photos are precious. As an authorized Kodak Document Conversion Center and Reseller, E-Z Scan, powered by i/oTrak, is excited about being of assistance to those with paper photos looking to do their own scanning, have it done for them, or a combination of both.
