NanoFiche® Stamper Technology, Inc.
Make Your Last Preservation Decision.
Preserve Forever. For Real.
You’re mandated to preserve permanent records forever, but every medium you have expires. Digital demands migration every 5 – 10 years. Microfilm tops out at LE-500 – and only in a climate-controlled vault. NanoFiche is the first preservation master that reaches a terminal state: engraved in solid nickel, readable with simple magnification, no migration, no maintenance. Ever.
PERMANENT • MIGRATION-FREE • MAINTENANCE-FREE • HUMAN-READABLE
“Professional archivists are tasked with something structurally impossible in the digital world: they are asked to preserve records permanently, but every tool they have comes with an expiration date. They know with professional certainty that whatever they put into digital storage today will require migration, intervention, and risk again in 10–20 years. And again after that. Forever.”
NanoFiche is the first medium that lets an archivist make a preservation decision for a medium that does not need to be migrated. It lets them reach a terminal state where the record is no longer a recurring responsibility. It turns “preserve forever” from an impossible aspiration into an achievable outcome.
How NanoFiche Works
Dual Output Approach
Accessibility + Permanence
High-resolution imaging → Precision engraving on nickel plate → Generation of digital master file
Recovery – If the digital layer is compromised, lost, or becomes unreadable → Scan the physical nickel plate.
Parse it back into PDF or other usable formats.
Locations of NanoFiche
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
- Draper Museum, Cambridge
- MoonShot Museum, Pittsburg PA
- America 250 Time Vault, Philadelphia PA
- Arizona Time Vault, Mesa AZ
- Argentina Time Vault made for Norsam, Santa Fe NM
- Adzom Rinpoche Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Archives of the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem Israel
- Long Now Rosetta Project, San Francisco CA
- Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
- The Moon
Advantage NanoFiche as Security Archive
Permanent • Migration Free • Maintenance Free
Space
NanoFiche® delivers radiation-resistant, maintenance-free archival storage on durable nickel plates. Requiring no power, electronics, or software, it offers permanent data preservation ideal for long-duration space missions. Content remains readable by simple magnification for centuries, even if all electronic systems fail.
Genealogical
NanoFiche provides families a permanent solution for preserving genealogical records, photos, and documents. Engraved on durable nickel plates, content resists degradation and requires no maintenance, migration, or special technology. Future generations can access their family history using only simple magnification, protecting precious records from digital obsolescence and environmental damage for centuries.
Religious
NanoFiche offers religious archives a permanent solution for preserving sacred texts and doctrinal records on durable nickel plates. Readable by simple magnification for centuries with no maintenance or migration required, it supports faithful stewardship while eliminating recurring costs and risks of digital obsolescence.
Government
NanoFiche presents government archives a permanent preservation of public records on durable nickel plates. Readable by simple magnification for centuries with no maintenance or migration, it reduces long-term storage and migration costs while providing strong resilience against disasters, cyber threats, and technological obsolescence.
Lunar mission archives include SpaceIL Beresheet, Astrobotic Peregrine 1, Firefly Blue Ghost, Intuitive Machines Odysseus, ISpace Resilience, Astrobotic Griffin-1.
Next Launch in Q4 2026
Videos
Long Now Archive
The Art Side of the Moon
NanoFiche Explained