Storage Containers
It is very important that you read
these 4 pages from beginning to end.
Please Note: If you do not want to go to the trouble of
doing this Slide Prep yourself,
we can do it for you for five cents a slide. Note it on the
order form.
Going through thousands of slides may be a mind-boggling job. Please click here for ideas to simplify the organizing of your slides.
Slide
Prep, Page #1 Storage Containers
Slide
Prep, Page #2
Organization and Orientation
Slide
Prep, Page #3
Packaging Slides for Shipment
Slide
Prep, Page #4 We can do your slide prep for you.
Click to see our Slide
Orientation Movie
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Slide prep.
OR
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How should you prepare and pack your 35mm slides?
Rubber band the 35mm slides or leave them in your 35mm slide
carousel and ship the whole carousel box? If you have the
slides in Carousels, you can save yourself
a lot of time and trouble by just shipping us
the whole carousel. Yes, you will pay more for
shipping costs, but you will save yourself the
time and trouble of taking the slides out and
putting them into 2" stacks, labeling them, and
rubber banding the stacks. How much is your
time worth? See our
Carousel Shipping page to estimate your
shipping costs for carousels.
Click here for the Carousel Shipping Page
If
you have to take your slides out of a container, and
you are looking for a solution other than stacking them and rubber
banding, you might want to consider this novel idea for packaging
them. Click here for a
closer look.
If you have the metal or plastic containers of slides, as shown to the left, you can just ship the whole thing to us. Make sure that the slides are all facing in the correct direction so we can just take a handful out of the box and scan them in the proper order. See this special page for specific directions.
If
you have the Bell
and Howell 35mmSlide Cubes that you use for 35mm slide
storage, just send the whole cube along. This is
ideal because they hold just the right amount of
slides. Just make sure that you have
all your slides oriented correctly and facing
the correct way.
The yellow box to the left is a good container. It is easy for us to just grab a handful of slides and run them through our scanners. You still have to orient the slides correctly and indicate where the starting slide is. If not, we will assume that it is the slide that "faces the screen.
We are sorry but the following slide containers make it hard for us to efficiently scan your slides and still make enough money to stay in business. These following types of containers will be unacceptable unless you get prior permission. If we have to take your slides out of these types of containers, we will have to send you an email to see how you want us to proceed. We need you to help with some of the work in order to maintain our low prices.
Slim containers, such as those
above, are not acceptable under our low pricing. It takes us too much
time to remove the slides and put them back in but we can do it for you for five cents a slide..
Tthese plastic
notebook holders require extra work for
us to take the slides out and then replace them. We
will have to charge slightly extra if you want to send
your slides like this. We will remove them for a
charge of five cents per slide but we will not
put them back in again. We will rubber band them
and send them back like that. You will have to
put them back in.
If you have the Airequipt slide cartridges, you will have to take your slides out and put them into rubber banded stacks before you send them to us. Or you can pay our employees five cents a slide to do it for you. The Airequipt cartridges are particularly hard to work with because the slide is contained in a metal holder. Not only does it take us extra time to have to take the slide out of the cartridge but we also take a lot of time removing the slide from the metal holder and many times the metal holder is damaged in the process. If you have us take the slides out for you, we by no means are able to put them back in the holder or the cartridge. Your slides will be put in stacks and rubber banded together. We are sorry for this inconvenience but, once we get your slides digitized for you, you won't need the Airequipt cartridge, the metal holder or the slide, again.
If you send
slides in a container such as this, there
is no way we can grab a handful of slides
out of it. They have to be taken out, one by one and this takes us extra time. If you want, we can take them out and stack them for you for five cents a slide.
Slide
Prep, Page #1 Storage Containers
Slide
Prep, Page #2 Organization and Orientation
Slide
Prep, Page #3 Packaging Slides for Shipment
Slide
Prep, Page #4 We can do your slide prep for you.
Click to see our Slide Orientation Movie