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 ten cents a slide. Note it on the order form.

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 orientation and stacking for you.

• Slide Orientation and Organization Movie

• Bell and Howell Slide Cube Organizing Movie

• Waxed Paper Box Organizing Movie

• Carousel Preparation Movie

 

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" to 4" 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have the metal or plastic containers of slides, as shown above, 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 above 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 maximise our workflow. These following types of containers will need someone to take the slides out and put into stacks. If we have to take your slides out of these types of containers, we will need to charge you a small fee to do this extra work. 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 ten cents a slide..

These 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 ten 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 the sleeves.

 

 

 

 

 

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 ten 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 ten 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 orientation and stacking for you.

Click to see our Slide Orientation Movie