This last week we scanned over 1000 more pictures from my collection. This time it was pictures taken during the 1980s and 90s while traveling the United States doing what we called “Heritage Quest Road Shows.” The photos varied dramatically, and the series is comprised of everything from photos taken at the Grand Old Opry during the 80s, to many taken in cemeteries and cousins’ homes. Being country music fans, there’s an inordinate number of Opryland, and concert photos. I’ve felt the pressure to get these relatively recent photos scanned and identified for my children and grandchildren, as many of these folks who I took photos of are no longer with us.
The scanning was so easy… All it took was time. The Flip-Pal scans 3 photos per minute, all individual pictures. So I don’t have to go back later and cut the pictures apart with Photoshop as I used to when I gang-scanned them using a flatbed scanner.
Folks – I love my Flip-Pal and unreservedly recommend it to everyone. Dale and Tara are off selling Flip-Pals in Houston, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerque for the next 10 days. So I’ve decided to attempt to beat their sales (and they do sell a lot of these things). So I’m making the best offer I’ve ever made.
Buy any Flip-Pal Portable Scanner at the Family Roots Publishing Website – either the basic Flip-Pal unit itself, or the Flip-Pal with the Creative Suite Software package.
Enter the words FREE STUFF in the “Order Notes” box (not the “offer code” box) at check out while purchasing the scanner, and I’ll give you a FREE Flip-Pal Sketch, and a FREE copy of More Dating Old Photographs – a value of over $35 (including p&h).
Note that your automatic purchase confirmation won’t say anything about the FREE Stuff. Just know that we will put the items in with your scanner when it’s shipped. We’ve got a good stock of Flip-Pals on hand, so expect that any unit ordered will be shipped within 1 to 48 hours of the time we receive the order, weekends excepted.
I love the Flip-Pal Sketch. It makes it so easy to identify photos while visiting with relatives. A while back, my friend Pat Richley (aka DearMyrtle), bought two of them from me, saying that she planning on having her cousins do the identifying while she was doing the scanning – thus the need for two. She believes in getting a lot done fast!
Check out the full-line of Flip-Pals and Accessories at the Family Roots Publishing Co. website.
This offer is good through Midnight MDT April 19, 2012.
For more information, read my earlier blogs about the Flip-Pal:
More Fun With My Flip-Pal Scanner – Using the Sketch
ONE MORE TIME:
Buy any Flip-Pal Portable Scanner at the Family Roots Publishing Website – either the basic Flip-Pal unit itself, or the Flip-Pal with the Creative Suite Software package.
Enter the words FREE STUFF in the “Order Notes” box (not the “offer code” box) at check out while purchasing the scanner, and I’ll give you the free Flip-Pal Sketch, and a FREE copy of More Dating Old Photographs – a value of over $35 (including p&h).
Is it possible to scan an 8 1/2 + 11 paper?
Barbara – Yes, you can. But you have to take multiple overlapping scans – then let the software stitch the document back together. If I’m at home, I just use my flat-bed scanner for 8.5 x 11 documents, as it’s faster. No stitching. If I’m traveling, then the portablity factor comes into play, and I scan everything, including 8.5 x 11 docs, ledger pages, and anything else – stitching the larger docs together when I get home.
So far, I’ve scanned pictures up to poster size! Stitching went very well. I am on a Mac.
Can one scan negatives? And then reverse them? I have hundreds of old family negatives that I wish to archive. Thanks
No – the Flip-Pal mobile scanner isn’t made to scan negatives or slides. Sorry… I use an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner for my film, and slides. It’s definately not portable, but it does a good job at home or in the office.