Scanning Solutions: Bookeye

Max is always seeking ways to provide efficient, flexible solutions to meet all of our clients' specifications for optimal customer satisfaction. One solution of which is the Bookeye scanner, this intelligent piece of equipment combines archival friendly material handling with cutting edge scanning technology.

It's laser focusing technology ensures sharpness across the entire image regardless of depth. For example, when a book's pages curve and there is writing close to the spine, the focusing depth is adjusted to ensure optimal image quality. 

With a capacity to scan up to A1+ sized material, this scanner has the capability to digitise a wide range of content from large artworks to small leaflets. With the option to use this equipment as either a unique book cradle or by laying the material flat on the scanning bed. It also has individually suspended plates that considers the weight of the object (particularly books) and automatically adjust so that the material is laid as flat as possible for best capture results.

Not only does the Bookeye have all this functionality it is portable enough for us to undertake work in situ at a client's archive. 

For further information on our services please go to:

http://www.maxcommunications.co.uk/services.html

Competition Winner!

With a flood of responses to our newsletter, we are happy to reveal our winner Michael Pryke! The correct answer was of course Quentin Blake. Here he is receiving his champagne prize, we hope he enjoys it!

Left: Sam Rowland, Accounts Manager.

 Right: Michael Pryke, Head of PR and Communications

The English-Speaking Union

Charity Skydive!

One of our brave team members Iain Stringer is raising money for The British Heart Foundation by taking part in a charity Skydive in Reading on Sunday 19th July!

Max supports all of our staff with their charity fund raisers and has donated £100 along with other staff donations for this deserving cause.

If you would like to support Iain with this worthy cause or just feeling generous please follow the link below:

https://www.justgiving.com/Iain-Stringer/

We wish Iain all the best of luck!

Farewell to Suren

Max would like to wish one of our talented team members Suren Abrahamyan good luck with his studies in Ancient History at Kings College London. We are very sad to see him go, but at the same time we are happy that he is going into further education in a subject area which he is both knowledgeable and passionate. We know he'll have a wonderful time studying at such a prestigious institution and we wish him all the best.

Gift for Pope Francis

Max is thrilled to have assisted the Archbishop of Canterbury with his remarkable gift to Pope Francis, which reproduces two images from the sixteenth-century register of Cardinal Reginald Pole, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.

We are very honoured and grateful to be of service to the Church of England and we look forward to working with them in the future.

The Royal Garden Party

Max has been very kindly invited to the Royal Garden Party today, our Managing Director David Cordery shall be in attendance. We are extremely grateful for this recognition of our services to the Royal Household.

We hope he has a terrific time and we hope the weather stays clear for you all!

ISO9001

At Max Communications quality assurance is our top priority, we tailor our services to fit our client’s unique specification, whilst continuing to uphold our high standards.

This is one of the many reasons why we are so very pleased to announce that we have passed our ISO9001 quality management audit 2014!

Historic Royal Palaces Image Library

Max is very proud to announce that the Historic Royal Palaces have
just launched their online image library:

'A unique collection of contemporary and archive images of some of the
greatest palaces ever built.' - HRP

The images on the site look wonderful and we are delighted to be
associated with the project.

To visit the library and view this stunning collection please follow this
link: http://images.hrp.org.uk//en/page/show_home_page.html

The project doesn't stop there, only today we collected even more
glass plate photographs to be digitised! 

Max would like to thank everyone who came to visit us at the Museum and Heritage Show, another great year at the exhibition with some very exciting projects on the horizon. We are very much looking forward to seeing you all in the future.

Our team had a fantastic time at the Museum and Heritage show today, looking forward to seeing more of you tomorrow!

Here at Max we are eagerly anticipating the Museum and Heritage Show on Wednesday 14^th and Thursday 15^th May. Come and find us at Stall 9!

Royal College of Art

Max are very happy to have recently completed work for the Royal College of Art.

Liberty

Max are very much looking forward to starting work on the Liberty Archive in the next couple of weeks.

Richmal Crompton

Richmal Crompton (1890 – 1969) was best known for her Just William stories. She originally trained as a Classics teacher and taught first at St. Elphin’s boarding school and then Bromley High School, which is less than 2 miles from Max's offices in Chislehurst where she also lived most of her life. She turned to full time writing after having contracted polio in early 1920s which left her unable to teach. The stories were published between 1919 (first published in the Happy Magazine) and 1970 (Newnes and later MacMillan).

The Richmal Crompton Collection was transferred to the University of Roehampton as a deposit by the Literary Estate of Richmal Crompton Lamburn in late 2007 with an opening in January 2008. It comprises of all her belongings associated with her as a writer but also private life such as material concerning her education or correspondence with family members and friends, and diaries. Of course there is a rich collection of manuscripts, drafts, jottings, radio plays, correspondence with fans and publishers (continuing after her death), press cuttings and of course photographs, etc. The collection also holds her private library, and last but not least her publications, namely Just William books in numerous editions and translations as well as her lesser known adult fiction.

Max are delighted to be digitising this fantastic collection.

The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world.

It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century - and captivated the British public during an era of unprecedented scientific and technical transformation.

Now, for the first time, the full story of attempts to solve the longitude problem - unravelling the lone genius myth popularised in film and literature - is freely available to everyone via the Cambridge Digital Library at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
The new Board of Longitude Collection includes the complete archive of the Board, held by the Library, along with associated collections from the National Maritime Museum. Treasures of the Longitude archive include accounts of bitter rivalries, wild proposals and first encounters between Europeans and Pacific peoples. This includes logbooks of Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery, the naming of Australia and even a letter from Captain Bligh of HMS Bounty, who writes to apologise for the loss of a timekeeper after his ship was ‘pirated from my command’.

The University Library’s Digital Library project was launched in June 2010 following a £1.5m gift from the Polonsky Foundation. University Librarian Anne Jarvis said: “With the digitisation of this incredible collection, we have taken another important step towards realising our shared ambition of creating a digital library for the world.”

Max worked onsite at the National Maritime Museum digitising 32,000 pages.

Page turning

 Max now brings you the ability to read your scanned books, magazines, newspapers online, just like you were reading the real thing with page turning technology. Please click the following link to see an example of such a procedure:

 'A Statement Regarding Sarawak'

Altar Piece

 Crucifixion with Saints, 1348 - Daddi, Bernardo

Tempera on panel, integral frame gabled top.

The altar piece was donated by Courthauld Images, The Courthauld Gallery. 

Max printed the altar piece, the image of which was supplied by the Courthauld Institute, directly on to Foamex board which is lightweight for use but very strong. The image was then cut out to replicate the original 14th century Altar piece, for Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London.

Saint Bartholomew the Great is one of London's oldest churches. Founded in 1123 as an Augustinian Priory,  built when Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, was King. It survived the Great Fire of 1666 and both World Wars unscathed. Today the Church, which is well worth a visit, has appeared in numerous films including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, Amazing Grace,Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Other Boleyn Girl, as well as in numerous television programmes, including The Hollow Crown.

3D Photography - A new service from Max

At Max we constantly strive to provide innovative and exciting services for the Culture and Heritage Sector. One of the latest services we can now provide is the three dimensional imaging of stills objects (3d photography)
Here is a link to an example of this service
http://www.maxcommunications.co.uk/object/watchb/index.html

How historical figures would have looked today - The project, comissioned by history TV channel Yesterday

Interesting set of pictures

Our customer are lovely :-)

Sue in the scanning room just about to scan one of the many Quentin Blake illustrations that we've digitised over the years for his fantastic archive :-)