5 Oct
2004
5 Oct
'04
2:59 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
I once was wondering if a backup software could be
written that writes
to laser printer.
Backups would be read in with a scanner..
Hmm limit usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in. 600 dpi = 48mb per page.
One way to strike a blow against the paperless office.
I actually have a customer who does something like that!!!
They do a "paper dump" of some critical (to them) inventory stats
each evening, and those printouts (which are standard A4 forms)
contain only machine-readable info consisting of barcodes and
something that looks like, indeed, papertape "strings"
They have a scanner thing that can read those forms. I believe
every day, the forms from the previous day get sent to HQ, by
regular mail ;)
--f