IMAGE CAPTURE -- Market Goes Flat

Brian Dear, the shop's founder and owner, previously had been a Hell drum scanner operator. When he started the company in 1995, though, he opted to go with a flatbed machine to reduce the required investment. "I really was not happy with the scanner," Dear says. "You need a drum machine to get the ability to see into shadows. Also, between the dirt and 'noise' introduced by the flatbed unit, I was spending time in Photoshop trying to fix scans."