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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Inexpensive Image Digitizer
Message-ID: <20536@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Jul 89 07:45:10 GMT
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Hmmm, this talk about a "scanner" that clips/tapes onto a printer's head has
some possibilities that seem to beg exploration.

For example:

There is an optical sight (using fiber optics) mfd. by H-P that replaces the
pen in an H-P plotter.  It is used in conjunction with the manual controls on
the keypad of an H-P plotter to send digitizing coordinates into one's computer
over the serial port.  The H-P plotters have a resolution < .001".

Just THINK of the potential accuracy of scanning using an H-P plotter equipped
with such such a 'read' head!  One may have to "glue" odd-sized material (using
the spray non-permanent adhesive that's akin to the material used on Post-Its
(tm) by 3M) to a standard-size sheet used as a "carrier", but ... 

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]