2017-JULY: Installation of a METIS model GAMMA – EDS [ Easy Digital Scanner ] with the National Archives – Solomon Islands

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.

 

METIS EDS GAMMA A 1 to A 0 Flat Bed plus Book Planetary SCANNER

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

 

With this latest  installation of this latest METIS model EDS Gamma A4 to A0 Size Book Scanner with an Auckland  based Commercial Scanning Bureau – Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd, Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment – DS & ME continue their ongoing successful relationship in the installation of our Commercial Range of Book plus Large Format Fragile Document Scanners from several manufactures in Austria, China, Germany & Italy, up to TRIPLE A0 in Size in the Australian, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea & Oceania market.

This latest installation of this METIS model EDS Gamma A4 to A0 Size Book Scanner with an Auckland  based Commercial Scanning Bureau – Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd this brings the number of METIS model EDS Gamma A4 to A0 Size Book Scanner in the Australian, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea & Oceania market to THREE-3 units.

 Heritage Studios – previously AP Digital Consultancy Ltd  located in Auckland New Zealand – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit 2017-DECEMBER

The National Archives of the Solomon Islands – ONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit 2017-JULY

The South Australian Police Historical SocietyONE 1 EDS GAMMA unit 2014-JUNE

 

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

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.

With the delivery of the METIS model GAMMA – EDS [ Easy Digital Scanner ] Book and Large Format Fragile Material Flatbed Scanner to the National Archives of the Solomon Islands to TWO-2 Book and Large Format Fragile Material Flatbed Scanners in the Oceania Region along with the SMA Electronic Document GmbH Large Format A 2 Plus Oversize Material Book Scanners the SMA model SCAN MASTER 2 installed with the Cook Islands Governments – Ministry of Justice at Avarua, Rarotonga in February 2012.

SMA_SM2_Training_Cook_Island

Ralph Fuchs the Director of SMA Electronic Document GmbH is seen here providing operator training on the SMA model SCAN MASTER 2 Large Format A 2 Plus Oversize Material Book Scanner at the Cook Islands Governments – Ministry of Justice at Avarua, Rarotonga – the Cook Islands.

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

For any book, drawing, map or plan plus archival document or fragile material no matter the size – e.g. less than A 5 = 148 x 210 mm = ( 5.83 x 8.27 inches ) or up to Double A 0 Plus = 2,000 x 1,210 mm = ( 78.7 x 47.64 inches ) – which requires Scanning, Digitising = Digitizing & or Imaging for your Digitisation Projects, no matter how large or small then please contact us via the Contact Us @ DS & ME or Laurie Varendorff via  email @ Laurie Varendorff ARMA; or Phone: Australia @ 0417 094 147 – International @ +61 417 094 147 at Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment – DS & ME.

Laurie will be able to advise if DS & ME has the specialised equipment available for the Scanning, Digitising, & or Imaging from a minimum size of A 6 = 148 mm in width by 105 mm in height up to a maximum size of over Double A 0 = 1189 mm plus in width by 841 mm plus in height for books or Fragile Document/s, Map/s, Plan/s or Engineering, Architectural plus other types of Drawing/s required to meet a prospective client’s individual requirements.

Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment – DS & ME for All Things Micrographic plus Book & fragile Archival Document Scanning, Digitising & Imaging services the Australian – New Zealand – Papua New Guinea & Oceania Market which includes all states & territories of Australia including Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, the Northern Territory plus New Zealand – NZ  plus surrounding areas in Oceania where our Business Partners provide us with the authority to promote, install & to provide ongoing technical support for their nominated equipment range.

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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