Printing Secrets At The CIA

In the basement of the IPS building, the Center for Imaging & Photography handles wide-format ink-jet printing, blueprint scanning and official portraits (of both people and devices).

A few months ago, IPS introduced a new data storage and retrieval service, at the suggestion of a customer. Called the Paper Archive Conversion (PAC) System, it scans documents and uses optical character reader (OCR) software to convert data to ASCII text. These text-searchable and editable files are written to CD-ROM.