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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: scanners for Sun 3/60
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 27 Apr 89 05:45:04 GMT
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> Does anyone have any information about scanners for Sun 3/60.  We would
> appreciate information about both graphics and text scanners and software
> to work with them.

We just bought a Chinon DS2000 scanner.  It's a plain jane -- no bells
and whistles -- but it works real well.  Some features:
  * 100, 120, 150, & 200 dpi settings
  * text or graphics 
  * has a serial interface -- or a parallel for dumping right to a printer
  * all configuration is software-settable -- like resolution, data
    compression, scanning area, contrast, and others

It's a camera-based, one-dimensional CCD unit.  The camera is a head that
scans a flat surface using a rotating mirror.  

Like I said, it's not top-o-the-line, but it works well for us.  The
DS3000 scans at 300 dpi, but is much the same elsewhere.  An example of a
scanned image can be FTD'd anonymously from smaug.cs.hope.edu
(35.197.146.1) as "~ftp/pub/raster/attack.Z".  I use this as a background
image for SunView.

I wrote a SunView tool to drive the scanner.  You are welcome to that if
you want.  If you're interested in more info, let me know.

  -- Mike

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