Message-Id: <mailto:199412091854.MAA17387@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 13:46:57 U From: Philip McMillen <mailto:mcmillen@PIXEL.KODAK.COM> Subject: Re: New Kodak Photo CD produ To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Reply to: RE>New Kodak Photo CD product
Peter,
In reply to your note on 12/8/1994 on info on PHOTO CD CATALOG
Photo Cd Catalog discs can hold ~ 5000 or more images depending upon resolu-
tions selected. The discs are multi-platform compatible as they contain
Kodak Browser software for both Macintosh and PC/Windows platforms to search
and retrieve images.
Photo CD Catalog discs are great marketing and educational tools to provide
to students, employees, dealers, and peers - copies of images along with
a database to enable finding the right image.
There are 5 service bureaus set-up in the US to provide Catalog Authoring
service. they include:
Company Name Phone # Location
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American Images (716)325-4200 Rochester NY
Boston PhotoLab (617)267-4086 Boston Mass
Color Place (817)335-3515 Ft Worth/Dallas TX
Custom Process (510)527-6900 Berkeley CA
Miller Imaging (310)264-4711 Santa Monica CA
You provide the service bureau images (Photo CD, Tiff, or PIC format),
TAB delimited database (database must include a "path" for each image -
file name and where it is on the CD or Syquest or other media), and your
customizing selections (background color, text to be listed below images,
splash screen, resolutions to be on disc, and a few other selections).
The service bureaus will create and produce the Catalog CD master and the
number of copies you would like. For several hundred copies of a disc, it
is cheaper to have the "master" catalog disc replicated by a mastering house.
Catalog discs are a distribution media - you would have your images or
objects still filmed and then converted to digital via Photo CD scans or
scanned on other film or flatbed scanners, or digital captured via a dig-
ital camera. The images can be indexed using a number of database packages
(it doesn't have to be an image database package). However Browser s/w is
an abbreviated version of Shoebox s/w. If you were to use Shoebox to index
the images, then you can take advantage of Browsers ability to search on
user defined fields as well as key words and caption.
If you have additional questions, please give me a call (716) 253-9068, as
I am not a subscriber to ImageLIB. My name is Ellen Garfinkel and I am
the Photo Cd Catalog Product Manager.
Hope this answers your questions - the press release the person sent you was
from one of the initial Photo Cd product announcements from several years
ago.
Phil McMillen
Eastman Kodak Company
(716) 253-1493
mailto:mcmillen@pixel.kodak.com
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Date: 12/8/94 9:53 PM
To: Philip McMillen
From: IMAGELIB
A colleague here informs me that he recently read about a new Kodak Photo
CD product called PHOTO CD CATALOG. This now joins the line of other CD
products (the standard format, Pro-CD, Porfolio and others). Apparently
PhotoCD Catalog can hold up to 4,400 thumbnail images on one disk *as well
as browser software.*
We have requested more info from Kodak about this product, but in the
meantime: Does anyone on this list know about it first-hand? It could be
just the ticket for institutional scanning projects (such as ours) where
the main need is for an easy and reliable search engine to locate thumbnail
images that will in turn refer users to a copy negative.
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Peter Nelson (mailto:NELSON@jeflin.tju.edu)
University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian
Thomas Jefferson University
Scott Memorial Library
1020 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587
215/955-7769 FAX 215/955-7642