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Most people have heard the terms vellum and parchment, but few know that these writing surfaces were originally made of animal skin. Parchment was originally any animal skin that had been readied for writing, while vellum referred specifically to “paper” made from calfskin. (Calf in Latin is vitulus.) Just as calfskin leather is categorized as a superior form of leather, vellum is the highest quality of parchment. Some steps in leather and parchment/vellum preparation are the same (removing hair, for instance), while others are unique. Leather is tanned and limed, while parchment is just limed. This means parchment often reacts to changes in humidity and is not waterproof. Business disaster recovery companies must be cognizant of these properties when providing parchment and vellum document restoration, as explained below.

In an age of technology, where “print” is now proliferated online via websites, eBooks, and blogs, it’s a wonder the significance that paper still holds in the day-to-day. Technology continues to grow at an increasingly rapid rate, archived books will remain a vitally important aspect of our history and our future.

You can cut company costs by storing all of your company’s important documents digitally through a process known as document imaging. Document imaging – a term commonly interchanged with document scanning – involves making digital copies of your documents and storing them on a hard drive or server. Whether your company is large or small, it can benefit from document imaging. In a business world where printing costs are on the rise, digitizing important documents not only saves storage pace, but it helps protect your key files from disaster and provides additional accessibility that cannot be achieved using the hard copy form.