8" x 10" transparencies are acceptable for color and grayscale scanning. While 35mm slides may become "grainy" when enlarged, transparencies 2 1/4" size and up will reproduce online extremely well in most cases. If possible, specify to your photographer to use 2 1/4" format clothing and online or 35mm film intended for extreme enlargement. Full Color clothing and Grayscale online Scans: Continuous-tone art is most commonly submitted in the form of transparencies, photographs, or negatives taken by a professional photographer. Supplying preprinted artwork such as a magazine page or a printout from a color printer is highly discouraged. "Rescreening" this type of art will result in either a moire pattern and/or a blurry image. Scans for Recreating Artwork: Client supplied artwork is often submitted as black and white "slicks" or printed material such as stationary, decals, promotional pieces, etc. This art is scanned as a "template" with clothing the intention online of recreating it in Adobe Illustrator. The finished art can contain one or more colors and varying clothing tones of those colors. While a scanning charge does not usually apply, an art charge to recreate the image may. The complexity of the image as well as the quality of the supplied original will have a direct effect on art charges.

This additional marketing channel makes Nationwide one of the top 10 independent agency writers (agents online who write for more than one company) in the country and helps lessen the impact of catastrophe exposures by expanding Nationwide''s presence in central and western states. The acquisition made clothing Nationwide the country''s fourth largest homeowners online and clothing insurer and the fourth largest auto insurer.