Records services
Superior microfilm services
Cott's in-house microfilm lab digitizes brittle and aging film without damaging it, creates archival film that meets ANSI and State Archive requirements, and stores your media in secure climate-controlled vaults.
Cott microfilm digitization technologies offer the highest quality microfilm services. Cott uses hardware designed to protect brittle and old film, cleaning it as it is being scanned. Image enhancements are free of charge.
Our in-house digitization services are ideal for 100′, 215′ and 1,000′ rolls. We accept ANSI, M-types, and open spools, as well as Silver, Diazo, and Vesicular formats. Output includes blip removal, document separation tagging, and conversion to a wide variety of electronic formats, including PDF.
Hardware features include:
- High-quality tonality, depth of field and resolution via a 12-bit camera with a 12,288 pixel array
- 750 true optical dpi resolution
- Direct path imaging — camera, film and light source are in-line to ensure optimum image quality
- Real-time image sharpening and enhancement
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC) to optimize image quality while scanning
- “Smoothlight” fiber optic bundle that balances lighting across the entire scan area
Quality microfilm creation
Our microfilm lab is Eastman Park certified for document processing, so you can be sure you are getting the highest quality microfilm. Our film meets ANSI requirements for permanent records, and we adhere to State Archive requirements. To ensure quality, we log and track each image, inspecting them for discrepancies before committing images to microfilm.
- Meets American National Standards Institute (ANSI) requirements
- Custom box labels created for all microfilm
- Target sheets inserted as required
- Directories or indexes created and incorporated into your microfilm processing
- Missing pages detected and resolved from sequential data
- Image logging and tracking in a custom database
- 35mm film processing available
Secure media storage
For media storage and management, we use a suite of solutions for managing physical records, including record centers and secure media vaults. Storage facilities are located in Columbus, Ohio, and meet or exceed industry standards for safety, security, and climate control — a crucial component for the longevity of microfilm-based media. Every stored media unit is indexed and tracked, making it easy to locate and retrieve as needed.