On Dec 21 2004, 22:39, Gooijen H wrote:
> > Pete wrote:
> > ... when my department gets its big scanner, probably in January
> > (Sorry, Henk, it's not an Oce).
>
> I hate to go off-topic for a moment, but I can't resist here,
> I am very loyal / pro-minded to my employer :~) <shameless plug>
> Does your scanner do 55 pages Letter or A4 size (1-sided per minute,
> or 27 ditto (2-sided) automatically at 600 DPI ?
No, I don't know the actual figures, but the one we had on eval seemed,
subjectively, about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 of that speed. It's an HP, but I
can't remember the model number either. You have to understand that it
was a huge battle getting any scanner at all in our department!
> And besides, the software that moves the scanner carriage was
entirely
> written by me! For the mechanics under us: the carriage accelerates
> to approx 1 m/s in 33 msec!
> Don't ask what happened after I made a mistake in the path
calculation
> software and tried to run that code on the engineering prototype (way
> back in 1994) ...! I was not the only one unhappy with the results!!
When I worked in CompSci, we got a big fast Oce scanner/copier, about
1997, I think. One of those that collects the output internally,
safely away from fingers, because the paper goes fast enough to cut
fingers off if they're not out of the way. I remember the first print
job I sent it, a large A4 manual printed from a PDF file. I walked the
length of the corridor to the print room, saw no output, and was
slightly surprised -- for about 3 seconds, when a *large* block of
paper was neatly deposited on the output tray.
> LOL, this (..) is typical "Pete humor".
(Yeah, I must do something about those () keys as well).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Dec 21 2004 - 16:23:03 GMT