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From: hafner@unizh.ifi.unizh.ch (Assi Prof. Stucki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Filmrecorders for SGI-workstations
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.131011.6251@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 22 Mar 91 13:10:11 GMT
Sender: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Assi Prof. Stucki)
Reply-To: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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Our group here is evaluating different filmrecorders to be used together with
a SGI-workstation. Any information about which models have been successfully
used is welcome. Specifically we are interested to know
- if there are low-level-interfaces ( pixel, scanline ) available for SGI-
  machines and/or Postscript-drivers, that produce output for a low-level-inter-
  face or talk directly to the filmrecorder. We have a lot of raster-images
  we can easily convert to raw-pixel-data and would like to send to the
  recorder as directly as possible. On the other hand it should be easy to
  use a postscript-file for image-description and have it sent to the
  recorder. It should be possible to process many slides without operator
  intervention ( for example over night ).
- what image-quality can be expected with the different models ( effective
  resolution on film, color-banding... ).

Please e-mail to "hafner@ifi.unizh.ch". I will post a summary.
Thanks!!
								Michel Hafner