Microfilming

At Microform we utilize a variety of microfilm cameras from high speed Kodak rotary cameras to flatbed Bell and Howell cameras. The camera used is dependent on the type of work being microfilmed. Fragile documents and smaller bound books are filmed on the flat bed cameras, and normal office documents will be filmed on the rotary cameras. Some work is scanned on our IBML high speed document scanner, and then written to microfilm using a Kodak Digital Archive Writer.

Microfiche
To produce a microfiche, we first film the documents on 16mm or 35mm microfilm and then load the film into jackets. For 16mm Microfilm, the jacket contains 5 rows of images each containing upto 14 pages (depending on the document size). 35mm Microfilm jackets contain 2 rows of 3 images and a combination jacket has 1 row of 35mm images and 3 rows of 16mm images. A title strip on the jacket can contain all the information you need to retrieve documents quickly.

Duplicating

If you require your microfilm or microfiche duplicating, we have full Diazo duplicating facilities. Diazo duplicates are inexpensive copies of your film or fiche that you would use so that the master film does not get damaged. If you require (Silver Halide) duplicate negative or positive copies of your films, we have full facilites for this also. Positive copies of microfilms are most commonly used in libraries. Libraries have the positive copies for their members to use, while the master negative is retained by the publication owner, or in the case of most of our publishing clients, we keep the negative for future use.