Additions and corrections to documents cannot be attached to the original document on microfilm. Document preparation labor can increase. Incomplete documents must be stored while you wait for more pages. Safekeep lets you add pages to a CD and automatically retrieves an entire document even if its pages are on many CDs. Printed copies of microfilmed documents do not match the clarity of a copy reproduced from Safekeep's laser printer.
Clearer images are easier to read and therefore take less time.
Due to the mechanical nature of microfilm machines, they are not as reliable as Safekeep. Downtime costs money. The per page media costs for blank CDs are now comparable to film and continue to drop. Film prices are not decreasing. For all these reasons and more, microfilm machines are nearing the end of their product life and are not part of the future of information management.