19 Apr
2012
19 Apr
'12
12:07 p.m.
Tony Duell [ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk] wrote:
I agree.... I cna;t think anoyone is going to pay $500 for a scan or
photocopy of this...
I am not ssure I want to let it out of my sight
;-). That
said, for $500
(or $250) I could be persuaded to stand in front of a photocopier...
It's that valuable :-) I was only half-offering, as I can't believe
that a digital copy really is worth $500 to anyone. I'd settle for
fuel really. I assume you don't have a photocopier for the same
reason you don't
have a scanner. In which case you'll be using someone else's equipment.
Actually, I do have a photcopier... It'smodern, and yesm, the cotnrol
electroncis is based on one ASCI, presuably a microcontroller at least in
part. But it;'s old-fashioned in that it's an optical thing, the ligt
frelected off the original is focussed on the photoconductiove drum,
there is no CCD or anything like that. And I feel I could rebuild the
complete control system if I ahd to (a lot easier than driving a random
CCD anyhow).
I've never looked too closely at the economics of
photocopying, but
it's going to cost 4-5p per page (assuming that the cost of home
printing
It's that sort of order...
on a laser printer is any guide). In which case
I'd guess that it's
almost the same cost to go to a high street copying emporium and have
them
scan it properly straight to a PDF.
Except that such places, at least round here, ask nasty quesitons if you
take alonge abundel of sheets with a copyright notice on them...
(I'd offer to bring a sheet-feed scanner along and scan it in your
presence,
but no doubt someone at work would notice its absence :-))
:-)
Where are you based? Just in case I could visit with the manual...
-tony