Before They Fade Away

The ShoeBox Scan service is for Loose Photos Only, that is, photos supplied loose in one box or bag. Photos you may have in cardboard mounts, frames or albums would need to be removed and supplied loose. Or we may be able to scan these for you under another of our scanning service offerings.

For our ShoeBox Scan service, we utilise highest quality feed-type photo scanners - the Kodak PS80.

Not all loose photos are suitable to safely feed into a scanner. To qualify for the ShoeBox Scan rate, your photos must be:

• between wallet sized (at least 3 inches/75mm on one side) and A4

• in good, clean, flat & flexible condition.

• not curled up, cracking, torn, or crumbling

• not dirty or sticky,

• free of sticky tape, staples, paperclips, blu-tac, post-it notes etc.

Other “unsuitable” photo types include:

• newspaper print

• odd shaped cut-out photos

• some laminated photos

• some ink-jet printed photos

• some very high-gloss crinkle finish photos

• some cheap Fuji print papers

If you have any photos that you suspect are unsuitable, you can still include them. We’d love it if you could group these separately and label them “unsuitable”, and we’ll flat-bed scan them for you.

Even if you don't know what might be in your box there's still no need to worry. At the time of ordering you can simply instruct us with your choice to have us to either flat-bed scan, or leave unscanned, any unsuitables we might come across.

Prints that do not meet the above criteria (unsuitable prints) will need to be individually flat-bed scanned at the applicable individual flat-bed scanning rates. Or you can opt to have us leave them aside unscanned.

When you drop your job in to us you will be asked regarding "unsuitables" we may find, that either:

A) We leave unsuitable photos unscanned, or

B) You can pre-approve us to flat-bed scan up to 20 images at applicable rates (under A4 size @ $1.35 ea, under A3 size @ $1.95 ea). If there are more than 20 images we will stop at that point & SMS you for further instructions.

• Rush Service (subject to workload):

Standard turnaround for the ShoeBox Scan service is usually around 3 weeks, but if you need it sooner than that let us know. Depending on our workload we may be able to accommodate you. For a Rush Service (turnaround in 7 days or less) add 33%.

• Upgrade The Scanning Resolution of Small Photos Only.

This can be applied so you end up with a higher resolution scan of just your smallest photos, as long as you pre-sort them into these specific groupings ahead of time. Simply seperate your smaller photos into a group & let us know at the time of your order.

Upgrade to 1200 ppi scanning resolution (printable at least 4x enlarged from original photo sized):

• Upgrade 1200Smalls - from 300 ppi packages: add 25c per image.

• Upgrade 1200Smalls - from 600 ppi packages: add 15c per image.

The ShoeBox Scan service is for Loose Photos Only, that is, photos supplied loose in one box or bag. We can only keep the price this low if photos are supplied loose. But for various reasons you may wish to supply photos in bundles, bags or envelopes (we call these groupings).

Where the scanned images are required to be sorted and supplied in separate folders on the USB to match these groupings, and/or where the original photos are to be returned to their supplied packets/bags/groupings after scanning, these "groupings" will be charged at $1.00 per group/folder.

Due to the methodology we have developed in order for us to be able to scan your photos as accurately yet inexpensively as possible, we cannot guarantee to scan photos in any strict order with the Shoebox Scan service. But we are happy to do what we can to scan “roughly in order”.

Sometimes people kinda get around this by grouping their photos. If any are then scanned our of order, it's that smaller quantity within a group, not the whole job that is affected.

We can scan strictly in order with other of our services, so please contact us if this is important to you.

That’s ok. You’re still welcome to send those in, but ShoeBox packages have a set prices for lots of up to 500 & 1000. If you have much less you could get together with some family, and get up near or even over the 500 mark. If that doesn’t suit you, then of course we do offer scanning services for smaller quantities.

That’s fine too. You don’t have to have exactly 500 photos, or even multiples of 500. If you have over 500 photos the machine will count what you have & we will issue an invoice for the exact quantity. If you end up with between 750 and 1000 photos we will charge as 1000, as this would work out cheaper for you.