PMA Booth 3291:
When The National Museum of American History (part of the Smithsonian
Institution) came to Rieger Communications to produce all of the images for a
new exhibition, President Tom Rieger knew he had both an opportunity and a
problem on his hands.
For the opening of their latest exhibit, “The American
Presidency: A Glorious Burden”, the
Smithsonian needed some 550 originals scanned, and output to various
sizes. The problem was, no one knew the
sizes of the final output at the time of scanning; to make matters worse, the
originals varied from 35mm negatives to old black & white prints to 3D
objects such as campaign buttons. What
scanner in the world could handle this diversity? The Cruse CS 130/220 P in place at Rieger Communications.
“When we accepted the job, we knew that we’d have only one
chance to scan the originals before returning them to the Smithsonian. We knew that the final output would range
from 8x10 to mural size, but we did not know the output size of each piece at
the time of scanning”, says Tom Rieger, President of Rieger
Communications. “Our solution was to
scan everything on our Cruse CS 130/220 P scanner. The scanner gave us the speed, image quality and flexibility we
needed, allowing us to output the scans at the needed sizes on our Durst Lambda
digital photo writer.”
“I can’t think of another scanner on the market today that
would have given us the quality, productivity and versatility needed to
complete this job. To be competitive in
the museum market, you need to deliver the quality expected, on time and at the
bid price. Our Cruse scanner allows us
to bid jobs such as this with confidence”, concludes Tom.
Cruse scanners are available in a wide variety of sizes and
models to suit virtually any scanning application. To learn more about the range of Cruse scanner products, please
stop by and see us at PMA booth 3291.
Rieger Communications is a Maryland-based digital imaging
company that has a quarter century of experience in serving the Museum and
Archive markets with state-of-the-art services. From its roots as a commercial photo lab, Rieger has evolved into
a full service provider of digital imaging and display products for customers
like The Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Smithsonian
Institution, and other leading government and private facilities. For additional information on Rieger
Communications, please contact Tom Rieger at (301) 869-8300.
Cruse Digital Equipment is the US based arm of Cruse GmbH. Known for the legendary Cruse Camera, Cruse
GmbH has focused research and development efforts on creating a line of
premium-quality large format scanners.
The resulting Cruse scanners can handle originals as small as a 35mm
slide, and as large as 5’x8’. Cruse
scanners are in place at such locations as the Beethoven Museum in Bonn,
Germany; Lucent Technologies in Orlando, FL; NASA’s Johnson Space Center in
Houston, TX; and industry-leading photo and repro customers such as Rieger
Communications and Bay State Reprographics.
For additional information on the Cruse scanner product line,
please call Cruse Digital Equipment at (973) 208-7289, or e-mail kurt.ernst@crusedigital.com.