With the advent of the electronic age, though the advantages are very clear, there is a small cloud, which has to do with the archival quality of the media used in the electronic age. There are questions that have been addressed pertaining to the life span of CD's, and other types of media. Over the last decades there has been enormous changes, from 8 inch, to 5 ¼ inch, to finally 3 ½ inch floppies, DAT tapes, CD's, DVD's, and what will be in store for us in the next decade? Numerous companies have data stored on different media in vaults, for which either software and/or hardware are no longer available to retrieve the data from these sources.

There is one way to make sure your offsite media is always up to date, is to make sure you continually migrate your data, to the newest technologies, and this does not come without incremental costs. There is also some question as to the longevity of these media, and no one has come up with firm timelines as for how long the media may be reliable in making sure that the data is always readable.

In order to answer this important requirement, Kodak developed a device that allows us to electronically transfer digital images, to an analog copy on to 16-mm film. Micromatt is the first vendor in the province of Quebec to offer this technology. This service provides you with an archival quality copy of all your electronic media. Though this device only accepts TIFF, file formats, we may accept numerous file types, and provide conversion services, thereby providing you with piece of mind, and having an archival quality copy of all your data on film, in the event of major disaster. Microfilm, is the only media, in this age, to be recognized as an archive document. You will always be able to retrieve the content of your images, as long as there is a natural light source, and that you have access to a magnifying glass.