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Re: scanning fees



Hello!

I work at the American Institute of Physics' Emilio Segre Visual Archives
and we charge $10 for 300 dpi scans (which is sufficient for most
publishers) and have not usually had a problem emailing these images
(usually between 1-4 megabytes), though for large photo orders, we usually
send them on a CD-ROM - or when it's requested by the customer.

Just a few more cents on this!
Ellee Figi
Photo Archives Intern & Graduate Student
University of Maryland College Park

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Chuck Thomas wrote:

> Hi Gayle and others,
>
> A couple of comments:
>
> 1) You mention emailing images to patrons. You'll quickly discover that
> email is not a viable delivery method for all but the lowest resolution
> images. It is very easy for a scanned image to be at least several
> megabytes in size, perhaps as much as 80 megabytes or more for certain
> images at high resolution, etc. If you're looking for simplicity, this is
> not it. As a policy, we decided that all patrons off campus have to wait
> 1-2 days while a CD-ROM with the image(s) is shipped to them. For on-campus
> customers, we also offer the option of transfer via the campus LAN. We also
> tried FTP, but most of the customers were not server administrators, and
> could not get us permission to log in to their server for uploads. For
> several years now, CD-ROM has worked quite well.
>
> 2) $15 seems like a quite reasonable fee to me. We have separate prices for
> on-campus versus off-campus customers (university policy), but our prices
> hover around the same general figure.
>
> You'll soon have to make other policy decisions, such as when do you
> routinely save copies of images scanned, etc. Good luck!
>
> Sincerely,
> Chuck Thomas
>
> At 10:17 AM 08/10/2001 -0500, Martinson, Gayle - DVA wrote:
> >I am considering offering only scanning as an option for all but oversized
> >photos and prints.  I was thinking of charging $15.00 for scanning and
> >having the researcher specify what format they'd like it in (tif,,jpg).  We
> >would email it to them and they can line up the camera or photography
> >company to make a photo, a slide, a whatever.   It surely simplifies that
> >entire labor-intensive photo order/reproduction process.  Reactions?  Is
> >$15.00 too high?  I'd prefer reactions and discussion be on the listserv
> >itself.  I find the usefulness of the listserv greatly diminished with the
> >change in reply mode.
> >
> >Gayle Martinson
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