1. We use first generation master slides or negatives taken in the 1960’s and early 1970’s of original (non-reproduction) source materials.

2. Each piece of film is carefully cleaned and scanned using the finest NIKON® film scanners and Apple Computers to accurately digitize the images for further cleaning and restoration in the computer.

3. With the computer and our professional software we can accurately restore colors and fading due to the original deterioration of inks and papers. We can replace details lost or obscured by the typically less than perfect hand coloring or physical damage.

4. Most early military prints were hand colored with watercolors. A stencil process was frequently used to color pages “en masse”. Often the stencils became worn or got out of register allowing one color to bleed into another and stripes, piping, buttons and insignia were either obscured or not colored at all. Armed with 40+ years of study and research as well as the infinite computer palette we can correct and redraw lost details. Our work is often of higher quality and more accurate than the originals.

5. Captions are translated into English.

6. Our “giclee: printing best simulates the originals without the moiré effect of standard offset printing. All of our papers and ink are fully archival, light fast and acid free.

The Details at right come from a typical Knötel UNIFORMENKUNDE print restoration,