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Re: Imagewriter II Scanner
On 24 Sep 1998 13:50 EDT, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
wrote:
>In article "Howard Nager" <hnager@earthlink.net> writes...
>
>>hey there - I remember at one point seeing ads for a scanner which was put
>>in place of an imagewriter ribbon and scanning resemble printing in that it
>>would scan line by line...I tried to do a search for one but came up with
>>nothing...If you know the name of the scanner or can offer any other help
>>please e-mail me at hnager@earthlink.net
>
> That would be Thunderware's ThunderScan. The scanning mechanism
>clipped into the ImageWriter's ribbon cartidge slot and a cable ran
>from there, into the DB9 Game port in back of the IIe/IIc/IIc+/IIgs.
Yep. I've got one. If anybody has any TS questions, send 'em my way
:)
> From what I recall, it worked, but generally a poor product. It
>took _several_ minutes to do a scan (over 12 minutes or more) and if
>it didn't quite come out right, you had to start all over again. You
>were also limited in that you could only scan what would fit inside
>the ImageWriter (books and magazines were out of the question, unless
>you tore out pages). Glossy photos were also a problem, since they'd
>slip and ruin the scanning process.
I think what I did with small things (if I could) was tape them to the
back of a piece of lamination.
> A much better scanner is the ThunderScan GS or Quickie scanner
>if you can find one. These were hand-held scanning devices and did
>a far better job (not too mention almost instantly too).
Are you sure the handheld one was called the ThunderScanGS? The
regular TS does super high-res, 16 shades of gray, etc--wasn't the
handheld one called Lightning Scan? And does it have some way of
reassembling several more-than-4"-wide scans? Those handhelds are
cool, since they have OCR available for them.
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