[Simh] best way to scan 172 column fanfold 80s printout?

[Pär Moberg]

Look at the diy book scanning community for inspiration and make sure that
the light comes at an angle that doesn't reflect in to the camera.
I just found a led light fixture that pumps out as lot of light and is long
as a "tube light" 1,2m (approximately 1,5 yards)
//Pär

Den 11 feb. 2018 5:09 PM skrev "Zane Healy" <healyzh at avanthar.com>:

> On Feb 11, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have several printouts like this,
> the one I was just trying to scan in is labelled "EMPIRE Version 4.0
> 18-Jan-81"
> with the notice: "Please send bug reports to ELROND::EMPIRE"
> This is a Vax/VMS Fortran conversion from TOPS-10/20 from sources from
> around fall 1979
> It seems I only have the first 95 pages of this printout
> and it's folded width-wise, making scanning more difficult, old folds are
> hard to get out.
>
> I also have Zork (Vax/VMS) and of course several different iterations of
> Trek7 (Vms)
> somewhere I have a copy of Adventure (Colossal Cave) and the "Castle" game
> I love so much.
>
> so I guess question 1: how best to get rid of the folds? my method so far:
> fold them the other direction and try and fold it out, but so far not much
> luck
> and 2: how best to scan 100s of wide fanfold printout pages?
>
> I wish someone in Toronto had converted an old teletype and put a camera
> on it, that would be brilliant!
>
> Dan.
>
>
> The best way might be a piece of glass (to keep the paper flat), a copy
> stand, and a high-MP DSLR.  Lighting in that situation would be…
> interesting.  I’m not sure how much a polarizer on the lens would help.
> One option might be to put it on a light table, but I think that would
> create an interesting/unreadable mess.  Actually less light might be
> better, and simply go with longer exposures.
>
> There are graphic arts scanners that will do large pages, but in the art
> reproduction world, the method above (normally minus the glass), is more
> normal.  You’re lucky, you’re looking to copy something that doesn’t need
> to be 1200dpi or better.  I know you can get up to at least 12x18 range
> with a scanner.  I’m currently looking for either one of these, or ideally
> a drum scanner capable of handling 11x14 negatives.  Right now the only way
> I have to get a digital copy of photo’s taken with my 11x14 camera, is to
> photograph the prints.
>
> Zane
>
>
>
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