The Digital Imaging Technology Center is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of large format digital photography and associated level of scanning for use in archaeology, anthropology, geology, botany, zoology, museums, and associated desktop publishing, in-house publishing, repro shops (especially for colleges, universities and museums) and prepress related to photography and scholarly publications on the above subjects.

FLAAR maintains an office in the USA (Bowling Green State University, Ohio), Germany, and Latin America (Universidad Franciso Marroquin, Guatemala)

FLAAR is non-profit and donates its equipment, staff, and experience to work with archaeologists, archaeology institutes, and museums in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.

Here is FLAAR at work in Central America doing a demo of how to do seamless panorama photography to create virtual reality for the Honduras Institute of Anthropology at the Maya ruins of Copan.

Contact us via FLAARMaya@aol.com. It will reach us in Germany, Guatemala and/or USA

We gladly answer your questions about what scanner to select, except not about low-end entry level scanners such as HP or Microtek. This is not our area. We can handle e-mail only if you need a recommendation for a good scanner for serious quality. There is no charge for this service. If we feel that your question warrants attention by an additional expert we will forward your e-mail to colleagues who will also attend to your questions where possible.

We appreciate the equipment donated by Apple Computer, Dell Computers (dual processor 3.2 GHz, 15,000 rpm RAID Level 0, 3 GB RAM), Heidelberg Color Publishing Solutions (Linotype-Hell flatbed scanner with LinoColor Elite software), complete portable large format digital camera outfitted with pano and turntable rollout modes by Better Light, as well as considerable amounts of professional photography equipment from Ries Tripods, Lowel Light, Videssence (digital lights), Balcar, Calumet Photographic, Bogen Imaging, GretagMacbeth, X-Rite and all the many other companies listed on our various other web sites, maya-art-books.org and maya-archaeology.org and digital-photography.org.

We appreciate the contributions of each sequential model of HP DesignJet. We currently have about 22 wide format inkjet printers in our evaluation facilities (Canon, ColorSpan, Epson, Mimaki, Iris giclee printer, and HP). The success and popularity of the FLAAR Reports is a direct result of having first-hand, in-house, experience with such a wide range of printers.

We thank Scitex (now Creo ) for the loan of an EverSmart Supreme large format scanner (12x18 inch flatbed, true 5000 over the entire surface). In 2004 this Scitex scanner was replaced by the newer Creo version.

When we are finished testing and reviewing the equipment, we select pertinent items of this equipment to donate in turn to the archaeological institutes, museums, and archaeological projects of, especially where we have joint projects with those institutions. FLAAR also provides training, in situ in Central America and in its offices in the USA or Germany, for scholars from Latin America who wish to learn about what this technology can do for their own projects, programs, and museums in their home country.

The easiest way to obtain all the FLAAR information is to look at our courses on digital photography or obtain our general catalog of publications.

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• Most recently updated June 1, 2004 / Redesign May 2004