8 Apr
2017
8 Apr
'17
7:28 p.m.
On 2017, Apr 7, at 4:53 PM, Toby Thain
<toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 2017-04-07 4:23 PM, Robert Swierczek wrote:
Heck, I would settle for a decent camera on a tripod and a well lit
flat surface you can drape the printout over, then take a video as the
source scrolls by.
OK, maybe that is worst case, but isn't there an easy solution that
does not include cutting anything (those fanfold binder covers can be
easily dis/re-assembled.)
Yes, there's always SOME way to avoid it, but obviously significantly more work.
Just depends what the priorities are... Preserving fanfold seems like a strange priority,
wouldn't it be more practical bound book-like anyway?
Or, similar to your suggestion, load it into a compatible printer (so that it can be
sprocket fed), with some kind of takeup spool, then form feed pages through, snapping each
one between feeds.
—T
Adapt the panorama mode of a camera to work when you pull the paper past its view?
This reminds me of a tale. At my MIT lab around 1975 we had a Xerox 3100 (maybe?) copier
we used to copy 11x17 hardware schematics. It pulled the original and output paper,
slightly offset, past opposite sides of the image drum. I don’t know what possessed me to
try it, but I found it would continuously copy fad-fold printer output onto fan-fanold
paper, while advancing the copy counter only once.
-L
>> Yes! I am very much interesting in getting my
eyes on that early B
>> version of AberMUD (and any other B code for that matter.)
>
> It's a few inches thick, I'll dig it out and post sample code photos from
> it, somewhere.
That would be wonderful, but I would really like to bring that
software back to life again. Does anyone know of an inexpensive and
non-labor intensive solution to this? I imagine a fanfold printout
should be fairly easy to scan given the proper scanner. I don't know
how or if the scanner should be taken to Alec's printout or
visa-versa.
Yes, a full duplex ADF scanner, like the Fujitsu fi-4530 I own, can do it,
but you would need to guillotine off the perforations (take it around to
your local printer, who has the right guillotine).