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| March 2010 | Adjusted pricing structure to separate out 110 / 126 / 127 film as these require more time to process. Price lists and order forms adjusted. | |
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| April 2009 | Updated links page to remove sites that have removed my link or not honoured their promise to link. | |
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| April 2009 | Postage rates adjusted to reflect the new Royal Mail rates. | |
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| February 2009 | Due to the new standards governing credit card security requirements, which require costly processes and regular checks and audits to be put in place and which are unnecessary for the very simple and secure process we have used up till now, we are now no longer able to accept payment by credit / debit card. We can accept cheque, cash, PayPal or direct bank transfer. | |
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| March 2008 | Prices of slide and APS scanning have been reduced. Pricing and order form pages have been restructured. This reflects the fact that we decided to de-register from VAT. | |
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| January 2008 | Updated Vuescan software. Benefits include better edge detection on negative strips, as well as the ability to scan prints upt ot 300 dpi instead of 200. | |
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| October 2007 | Changed link alt text to a pop-up box with more information. Added medium format scanning prices and information on film formats. | |
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| 5 April 2007 | Changed menu from XaraMenu JavaScript to CSS to improve cross-browser compatibility and to allow pop up boxes from main menu sub-menu items. Converted former pop-up boxes to open within same browser window, except for printing a blank order form (due to IE7 incompatibilities within its print routines). | |
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| 15-17 March 2007 | Changed display of pop-up information and sample pages larger images for those browsers that support this function. The image or file appears in a box in the centre of the browser window and the original page is dimmed. Older browsers continue to see the new window containing the file or image. | |
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| 2 February 2007 | DVD Slide Show launched. Several pages updated, additional technical information included, order forms modified. Main menu - sub menu items moved from Contact Us to Home. | |
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| 29 January 2007 | Sample pages have been updated. The first three pages now show examples of Basic, BasicPlus and Enhanced Services. | |
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| 18 January 2007 | Added a section in Technical Information about the limitations of the scanning process. | |
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| 16 January 2007 | Added a new "Why Use Us?" page, under the Home sub-menu. | |
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| 12 January 2007 | The sample photos on the home page have been updated to some new scans, and the format changed to present the three service options (Basic, BasicPlus and Enhanced). Hovering the mouse over a thumbnail pops up a row of three pictures, whilst clicking on the thumbnail opens a new window with larger copies of the three images. In turn you can click on one of the three images in the window to see a yet larger version. |
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| 21 December 2006 | New 'About Us' Page There is now an 'About Us' page on the web site, which can be accessed from the sub-menu under the 'Home' button on the left of the screen. We have also changed the Home Page layout a little. The automatic slide show is now on a separate page under 'Samples' and has been replaced by small fixed images. When you move your mouse over an image you see a larger Before and After version. If you click on the small image a new browser window opens with an even larger copy. |
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| 30 October 2006 | Upgraded Web Site We have upgraded our web site to improve compatibility between different web browsers. The main change is to the menu structure, which now includes more sub-menus to simplify navigation. The last version of the web site required us to maintain two versions depending upon the browser. There are still issues with Opera 8 and the sub-menus, and very early browsers will have problems with the CSS. We have tested with IE5 up to IE7, Netscape 6 & 7, Opera 9 and Firefox to version2. |
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| 30 October 2006 | Price Changes Our prices have remained unchanged for the last two years. We are still maintaining our prices at the lower end of the market by keeping our overheads to an absolute minimum without compromising the quality of our work. We have made some adjustments to prices that reflect the amount of time that each of the options requires, as well as the size of the files generated. Smaller scans with minimum extra features stay at the same low price, whilst there is a small increase for larger scans with enhanced options and larger file sizes. We have also adjusted our return postage rates to reflect the Royal Mail's new pricing. The rates we charge are based upon average weights for each type of media, and where the weight comes out above that expected we absorb the difference in cost. If you are not sure, or have a heavy consignment, or want to explore alternatives to Royal Mail, please contact us. |
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27 October 2006 |
New scanning software This week we have introduced a new scanning software package called VueScan to replace the NikonScan software that came with our scanners. VueScan produces better quality images thanks to its use of ICC profiles generated from IT8 standard colour matrices. |
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