Not sure if this is OT or not but my folks still use a 23 year old Color Computer Portrait
system at fairs and we need ink and wax thermal Paper for our Shinko CHC 545 or Shinko CHC
445?we also have an old Panasonic Omniflex EPL-RAT unit and a Tektronix 4696 which I
consider RIP.? If anyone here knows of anyone with old supplies laying around or where I
might ask it would be appreciated.? I need both photo paper and T-shirt paper. (tektronix
wax thermal supplies also seem to work, if they are for the ROLL wax thermal not stick)?
Oddly enough our system was supported by Casi then QLT up until April 2000 (a long time I
know) they released an HP 2000c printer driver for the unit and gave up.? Sadly the driver
is crap, slow, inaccurate color,?unreliable and very low resolution compared to the Shinko
545 driver.? I often wondered if anyone could reprogram the 2000c driver with the Shinko
dot pattern for better accuracy and speed?? The system is a
Motorolla 68010 with 2mb system memory and 1mb video memory and Uses Innovion IDOS as the
OS.? I can read and image the 720k floppies but don't have proper resources to know
how to edit them effectively.? I had a little programming in high school and college but I
would need a systematic method to approach this unit, I would love to be able to program
it myself but never got to the point I could.
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Also the system saves photos to a floppy disk in 16bit targa format (not a dos disk
though)? I can using a imaging program take the photo off, but sadly the pallette is
completely wrong, I can tell who the people are but they are in psuido colors.? I often
thought that might be a way for my folks to continue using their simple system then simply
print the photo on a normal PC.
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http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130698
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Anyone want a free unit to play with to write a driver?
I am located in central Wisconsin.
Thanx
Ryan May