High-End Drum Scanning Shops for Hasselblad Film Camera Owners

Assuming that you actually intend to use your Hasselblad film camera, and you are not some collector, then you need to find a good prepress shop with a drum scanner and an operator who knows how to use it.
Of course, you could just take your prints to Kinko's and asked them to scan it on a $99 flatbed scanner and then maybe print it out on a $200 inkjet. But if there is any justice in the world, you will later burn in hell for such a blasphemy. Hey, that's just my opinion.

Anyways, here is a list of imaging shops that do good work with Hasselblads, in no particular order:

1. JDA Creative Color
These guys were recommended by a couple of people over at Printplanet. Based out of Portland, Oregon.

2. Blanchette Press up in Richmond, BC, Canada still operates a
Fuji Celsis 6250. They swear it still produces color better than any direct digital capture.

3. Brian Norris, Norris Litho Company
605 Main Street, Hanover, MA 02339
Ph. 781.871.0644, norrislitho(at)earthlink[dot]net
High end Drum Scanning, Flatbed Scanning, Prepress, Color Correction, Image Retouch and Rendering for the Packaging, Publishing, Manufacturing, Advertising and Printing industries.

4. Tom Gaukel Digital Photographic Deisgn
( 303) 444-1921
Digital Photographic Design does some truly exceptional Tango scanning and retouching work.

5. Dick Busher Cosgrove Editions
7042 20th Place NE
Seattle, WA 98115
206-524-6726 phone
Known for working with Hasselblads and has won some Bennys as well.

6. www.prepressexpress.com

7. www.nac-mi.com
We're using a Hell chromagraph 3800 series, true PMT scanner.

8. Litho-Art Inc. 175 Varick Street
New York, Ny 10014 T.212-242-7650 x.116
We do hi-end scanning also. I have Fuji Celsis 6250 drum scanner. The largest drum is 20" x 26".

9. Total Graphics Inc Burnaby (Vancouver) Canada
We do great drum scans on our Heidelberg Primescan as well as a full range of premedia services including digital photography. It's not just the equipment, it's our expertise that keeps clients calling. We also do digital printing to litho quality on our Indigo press.

If you know of any other shops that can handle Hasselblad film scans, please let me and drop me a line at dj dot dunkerley at gmail dot com.

thx, DJ