Film Transport

The QUADRIGA INSPECTIONscan film transport is the closest thing to a manual film winder in terms of safe handling of damaged, warped and spliced film materials.

INSPECTIONscan uses extra-large diameter rollers to minimise stress to brittle, nearly breaking splices. To avoid the stress of pushing the film for every image into a stop and go behavior the film transport of course uses continuous motion to digitise your film. The laser registration without mechanical sprockets is a matter of course and an additional 2D optical registration is done on each and every perforation hole. The transport is highly optimised to not require a pressure plate to flat-press brittle warped film or a capstan to press dirt into the emulsion.

You can use the INSPECTIONscan desk in a way that not a single component of the desk will have any mechanical contact with the emulsion of your film material. And the film can be moved from the supply reel to the take-up reel and back again with virtually no tension.

To protect the film material against mechanical stress with sticky film layers, QUADRIGA offers a highly sensitive and fast-acting auto-stop. For materials with badly damaged perforations, soft rollers can be used even down to a minimum pulling force of 20 grams, which is less than you can use in a controlled manner with a hand rewinder. In addition, QUADRIGA allows you to specify the winding force for rewinding the material before a reel returns to the vault. All this makes QUADRIGA inspection by far the safest digitisation process for your archive reels available anywhere on the market.