Digitise in High Definition
Books, drawings, watercolours, ektas, negatives, glass plates...
Our know-how allows you to move safely into the digital world, with restitution of the most subtle details of your originals.
The experience of our scanners combined with professional tools allows us to digitise all types of documents whatever their nature or format: glass plates, negatives, ektachromes, watercolours, drawings or paintings...
Our digitise technologies
We perform 5 types of digitisation:
- At the Kaiser reproduction bench, mounted with a Hasselblad 553 ELX equipped with a Hasselblad CFV 50 digital back (ccd).
The medium format is particularly suitable here. - The equipment is complemented by Balcar flashes for good lighting.
- On a Kodak IQ Smart 3 flatbed scanner, an essential tool for all screened documents, but also for watercolours or line drawings.
- On a semi-rotary scanner, the Hasselblad Flextight X5, considered today by specialists as the best scanner on the market for everything transparent.
- In the photo studio equipped with a Hasselblad H4D 50MS medium format camera with a 50 megapixel digital back. It allows for multi-shot photography.
- At the automatic photo scanner: ideal for scanning large quantities of standard, square, panoramic and instant photos, from 9 × 13 cm to 21 × 31.5 cm.
At Quadrilaser, high definition is a principle: for example, we can scan a 24 x 36 mm ekta to make a digital photo of 80 x 120 cm in 300 dpi native.
Our tools are particularly suitable if you want to make large format reproductions.
Book scanning
Do you want to republish a book or make it available in electronic form but do not have digital sources? We offer to digitise your original paper book to produce a facsimile, following a few basic steps in order to produce a work of identical (or even superior) quality to the original:
- Digitisation of the line text and images with detraming if necessary.
- Cleaning up the dust and dirt.
- Reassembling in a layout file with precise alignment of texts and folios.
- Generation of a new file for the printer including the cutting lines.
Scanning of ektas
Bring your slide archive to life with digitisation:
- Batch scanning,
- Ektas under cover or disassembled (to have the whole image),
- Colour or black and white,
- All brands of film accepted.
Scanning of negatives
Do you keep old negatives and want to have a photo taken?
With high quality tools and professional know-how, we offer you to bring your most beautiful pictures to life.
- Scanning of negatives (e.g. for black and white),
- Enlargement to very large format if necessary,
- Conversion to positive, dust removal, colour matching,
- Printing on photo paper,
- Supply of images in digital form.
Digitisation of drawings and paintings
Keep a digital record of your work.
You are a draughtsman, painter, watercolourist... and wish to keep a digital archive of your works or reproduce them on canvas, drawing paper or Japanese paper...?
We digitise while respecting the colours of your work thanks to our long experience in the publishing and museum world.Types of originals accepted :
- Canvas,
- Watercolours,
- Paintings on wood,
- Drawings,
- All formats...
Scanning of "photo boxes" or album photos
There are millions of precious photos, taken before the age of digital photography, languishing in shoeboxes or albums. Most of them seemed doomed to obscurity, yet they are begging to be seen and shared again. Today, new technologies allow us to preserve these memories for future generations.
Here at Quadrilaser, our new "photo scanning service" will allow you to save your photos digitally on CD or DVD. Each image is scanned at 300 dpi, which is ideal for quality photographic reproduction at the same size as the originals.
Only loose photos can be scanned with this process, so remove all photos from albums and sort them by size. Make sure there is no tape or sticky substance on the photos. Remove all staples, paper clips, etc. as they will damage the scanner at high speed.
Price on request
3D Scanning
3D scanning is experiencing an acceleration of uses accompanied by the rise of 3D printing.
The applications of 3D scanners are very diverse: aeronautics, automotive, dental, jewellery, art or heritage conservation...
Thanks to our ARTEC EVA 3D scanner, our photographic tools and our image know-how, Quadrilaser is able to capture not only the volume and dimensions, but also the colours and appearance of the objects to be scanned. The colour of a 3D scanned surface is called a texture.
Do you have an object you want to scan but don't have the necessary equipment?
Based on the description of your project, the objectives that you have set for yourself, and some photos that you would like to send us, we will carry out a feasibility study and draw up the corresponding estimate. Pricing depends on the complexity of the part, the post-processing time and the destination of the scan.
Mechanical parts, artistic parts, museum pieces, reverse engineering.... Whatever your existing objects, do not hesitate to contact us.