<p>"Does anybody know about their labor conditions?" (scancafe)<br>
<br /> <em>"We pay our Indian employees a rate of compensation that is a full 25% above the average plus retirement and insurance benefits; this allows us to hire and retain the most qualified image processing technicians."</em><br>
<br /> They also have a $1,000 shipping guarantee which they will pay you if they lose your items.<br>
<br /> I have an order in with them now. They don't do medium format B&W negatives so I had to send those to Britepix. <strong>BritePix</strong> is fast. They scanned 300+ old B&W negatives and even cleaned them up in about a week. I'm still waiting to receive the scans and negatives but they put up a slideshow so I could check them out on their site. Britepix is in Miami but they send the negatives/slides/prints to their Costa Rica production facility. Their rates are very low.<br>
<br /> Scancafe has the lowest rates but like I said (at this time) they don't process medium format B&W negatives so I only sent them the color negatives to be scanned. Another plus with Scancafe is you don't have to pay for the scans you don't like. You can discard up to 50% of the order.<br>
<br /> Here's an article from Money magazine that was helpful in comparing services. It is 2 years old though.<br>
Anyone try ScanCafe?
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<p>"Does anybody know about their labor conditions?" (scancafe)<br>
<br /> <em>"We pay our Indian employees a rate of compensation that is a full 25% above the average plus retirement and insurance benefits; this allows us to hire and retain the most qualified image processing technicians."</em><br>
<br /> They also have a $1,000 shipping guarantee which they will pay you if they lose your items.<br>
<br /> I have an order in with them now. They don't do medium format B&W negatives so I had to send those to Britepix. <strong>BritePix</strong> is fast. They scanned 300+ old B&W negatives and even cleaned them up in about a week. I'm still waiting to receive the scans and negatives but they put up a slideshow so I could check them out on their site. Britepix is in Miami but they send the negatives/slides/prints to their Costa Rica production facility. Their rates are very low.<br>
<br /> Scancafe has the lowest rates but like I said (at this time) they don't process medium format B&W negatives so I only sent them the color negatives to be scanned. Another plus with Scancafe is you don't have to pay for the scans you don't like. You can discard up to 50% of the order.<br>
<br /> Here's an article from Money magazine that was helpful in comparing services. It is 2 years old though.<br>
<br /> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0712/gallery.digitize_memories.moneymag/index.html">http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0712/gallery.digitize_memories.moneymag/index.html</a></p>