Installation of a METIS model EDS Gamma A4 to A0 Size Book Scanner with an Auckland based Commercial Scanning Bureau – Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd

The METIS SYSTEMS Group of Italy manufactures a Range of Book & Planetary Flat Bed Scanners for the quality scanning for Digitisation Projects of Oversize Material such as Large Format / Fragile Engineering & other types of Drawing/s, Map/s, Plan/s, Papyrus, Paintings, Photographs, Scrolls, Parchments, & also Book/s, Atlas/s, etc. plus Fine – Art, Decor and Professional Cartography applications from Lower Cost Entry Level METIS – EDS Planetary Book & Flat Bed Planetary Scanner Family ( Easy Digital Scanner ) portable ALPHA unit for A 3 / A 2 desktop planetary book scanning up to 300 mm = ( 11.81 Inches ) thick to the High End Top of the Range for Professional Applications METIS – DRS Family of Book & Flat Bed Scanners which can scan material up to a Maximum of 2,000 x 1,210 mm = ( 78.7 x 47.64 inches ) or over DOUBLE A 0 + in size & up to 200 mm = ( 7.874 Inches ) thick.

The image above shows the METIS model EDS – GAMMA – A 1 to A 0 size Flat Bed plus Book & Large Format Document Desktop Planetary Scanner

Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment – DS & ME are pleased & enthusiastic to be able to announce the installation of the FIRST – of the Entry Level EDS models – GAMMA Book & Document Flat Bed Scanners for Book/s & up to A 1 to A 0 size Photographs / Paintings, Large Format & Fragile Document/s e.g. Oversize Material such as Engineering Drawing/s, Map/s & Plan/s with the South Australia Police HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inc. located at the Police Barracks in Thebarton in Adelaide – South Australia.

Click on the Link below to review the Advertiser South Australia February 18, 2015 5:07PM article.

A 170-year-old notebook belonging to South Australia’s first police commissioner, Thomas O’Halloran, has been found in a backyard shed in Mt Gambier.

South Australian Police Historical Society Project Officer Tony Kaukas with the notebook. Picture supplied by the South Australian Police     

     The Metis EDS Gamma Professional Book Scanner in operation at the Genus IT Digital Scanning Bureau in the UK

The METIS – EDS Planetary Book & Flat Bed Scanner model GAMMA Innovative UP TO A 1 Desktop Planetary Scanner in operation Showing the Software’s – Document Finger Holding Deletion Feature

METIS EDS Auto Scan showing finger detection

It is with Great Pleasure that Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment – DS & ME is able to announce the delivery this week of a  METIS model GAMMA – EDS [ Easy Digital Scanner ] Book Scanner to the National Archives of the Solomon Islands.

The National Archives of the Solomon Islands will utilise the METIS model GAMMA – EDS [ Easy Digital Scanner ] Book and Large Format Fragile Material Flatbed Scanner to capture the Historical Documentation both in Book & Large Format Fragile Material from A4 = 210 x 297mm to A0 = 841 x 1,189mm in size.

The METIS model GAMMA A4 to A0 Scanner was delivered in July 2017 and installed by our Auckland NZ representative Andrew Pettengell of Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd in early August 2017.

The people at the National Archives of the Solomon Islands are very pleased with the installation.

In addition Andrew Pettengell who had not had any previous hands on experience with the METIS model GAMMA A4 to A0 Scanner prior to carrying out the installation & the training of personnel at the National Archives of the Solomon Islands had this to say about the METIS model GAMMA A4 to A0 Scanner once he had completed the installation & training.

WOW, I have to say, that METIS model GAMMA is an awesome piece of Book & Large Format Scanning KIT !! 

Needless to say DS & ME is most pleased with this assessment from Andrew Pettengell of Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd.

A Brochure for the METIS – EDS Planetary Book & Flat Bed Scanner model GAMMA the innovative A 2 / A 1 with the option to scan up to A 0 Size material Desktop Planetary Book & Flat Bed Scanner – for up to A 1 or 840 x 594 mm = ( 33.11 x 23.39 inches ) in size of Oversize Material such as Bound Book/s & Large Format / Fragile Engineering & other types of Drawing/s, Map/s & Plan/s plus Painting/s & Photographic Document/s Flat Bed Scanner is available for download @ METIS EDS GAMMA Desktop A 1 Book & Flat Bed Scanner

The METIS – EDS Planetary Book & Flat Bed Scanner model ALPHA Innovative UP TO A2 Desktop Planetary Scanner in operation

2015-MAY:

METIS now has an installation base Internationally of the EDS – Easy Digital Scanner for Book & Large Format Digital Scanning of NINETY EIGHT – 98 model GAMMA for Book & Large Format Documents up to A1 to A0 in size and ONE HUNDRED & FIVE – 105 model ALPHA for Book & Large Format Documents up to A3 to A2 in size units which are installed with a wide range of organisations E.g. Universities, Archives, Libraries, Research Organisations, Historical Societies, Museums, Religious Organisations, ART Academies, The Fashion Industry & Scanning Service Bureaus.

With the total number of GAMMA installations worldwide @ NINETY EIGHT – 98 UNITS in 2016.

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ( Roma  ) – (national academy of art) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Archivio Diocesi di Caserta – (diocese archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Archivio di Stato di Campobasso – (state archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

ASL di Sassari – (health insurance archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Ass. Senza frontiere Marino – (cultural association archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Azienda Regionale Per L’Edilizia Abitativa Cagliari – (regional archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Beeline and Blue – Des Moines – Iowa – USA – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

BIBL.CIVICA “ANGELO MAI”  Bergamo – (city library) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

BLK Printing Company – Vilnuis – Lithuania – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

CNR IIT – Ist. Informatica e Telematica di Rende – (national research centre) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

CNR ( National Research Center ) in Rome ITALY – FOUR 4 EDS GAMMA unit

COMUNE DI LATINA – (city archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

CONGREGAZIONE ARMENA MECHITARISTA – (armenian asociation archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

CRA –CMA La Meterologia applicate all’Agricoltura – (metereological archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Curia Generalizia Domenicani – Convento Santa Sabina – (convent archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Fondazione Ermenegildo Zegna – (fashion industry archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

GAP S.r.l. Rome  ITALY – TWELVE – 12 EDS GAMMA units –

For the project of the digitization of the Cadastral Registers of the Italian Territory Agency, GAP S.r.l Rome used TWELVE 12 EDS GAMMA Scanners progressively located at SIXTY FOUR 64 different locations and GAP captured a total of around FIFTEEN 15 million pages.

The maximum production GAP produced per day with one GAMMA Scanner was 11,000 images = ( 22,000 pages ) in a TEN 10 hour shift.

The daily average number of scans produced, over the capture project, was of around 7,000 images = ( 14,000 pages ) per GAMMA unit per TEN 10 hour shift.

L’Intreccio Società Coop. Sociale di Massa – (outsourcing service bureau) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Memo (Roma) – (outsourcing service bureau) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Politecnico di Milano – (university) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Tecnografica srl  di Trivento (CB) – (outsourcing service bureau) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Università DI ROMA SAPIENZA C.I.S.T.E.C. Unità di Ricerca per la Climatogia – (university) ITALY  – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa (UNISOB) di Napoli – (university) – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Università degli Studi di Trieste – (university) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

Vitale Barberis Canonico – (fashion industry archive) ITALY – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit

2014-JUNE:

The First Australian Installation of the LOW ENTRY LEVEL – METIS model EDS – GAMMA – A 1 to A 0 size for Oversize Material such as Book & Large Format / Fragile Engineering & other types of Drawing/s, Map/s & Plan/s plus Paintings & Photographs Document Flat Bed Scanner in Adelaide – South Australia

In addition to the Low Entry Level METIS EDS Range of ALPHA & GAMMA Book & Flat Bed Scanners the METIS Range also includes the TOP OF THE LINE  for Professional Applications METIS – DRS models of Flat Bed Scanners for Book/s & Large Format Documents which can scan material up to a Maximum of 2,000 x 1,210 mm = ( 78.7 x 47.64 inches ) or over DOUBLE A 0 + in size & up to 200 mm = ( 7.874 inches ) thick all of which integrate a ( Patent protected technology ) the DC SynchroLight – The perfect merging between extreme quality and productivity for the most demanding market. Designed for the quality scanning for Digitisation Projects of Oversize Material such as Drawing/s, Map/s, Papyrus, Scroll/s, Parchment/s, & also Book/s, Atlas/s, etc. plus Fine – Art, Decor and Professional Cartography applications.

In addition the METIS Systems Group now have added the METIS SUPERSCAN PM3D the first industrial scanner able to acquire Colour and 3D surface embossing based on new METIS PM3D® technology ( Patent protected ).

The SUPERSCAN PM3D ® is the first scanner to breach the resolution limits caused by the number of pixels in the imaging sensors thanks to an innovative opto-mechanical design that allows a native optical resolution of 1,200 PPI on the full scanning area ( 2,000 x 1,300 mm ).

Thanks to the Scan Merge tool scanning very large originals (exceeding the scanning area) is now also possible with perfect results. The SUPERSCAN PM3D ® adopt the new METIS Scan Director software that have been designed specially to fulfil the requirements of the industrial, fine-arts and decorative markets and for handling 3D data.

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