S
Smiley
Many years ago, there used to be some kits available which allowed you
to convert a printer or plotter into a scanner. It was a small device
which
attached to the print head. The program that ran it, simply told the
printer to move its head back and forth, while advancing the paper
without printing.
The cheap home-printer kits simply taped to the print head and had a
separate cable running from the scan head to the printer. The
higher-end plotter versions (if I recall correctly) even had a plug-in
substitute for the ink-jet head which communicated directly through
the plotter interface.
The results were a large format scanner at the fraction of the cost
(and storage space) for the dedicated scanners.
However, I can't seem to find any of those kinds of products now...
do they still exist?
Joe Dunfee
to convert a printer or plotter into a scanner. It was a small device
which
attached to the print head. The program that ran it, simply told the
printer to move its head back and forth, while advancing the paper
without printing.
The cheap home-printer kits simply taped to the print head and had a
separate cable running from the scan head to the printer. The
higher-end plotter versions (if I recall correctly) even had a plug-in
substitute for the ink-jet head which communicated directly through
the plotter interface.
The results were a large format scanner at the fraction of the cost
(and storage space) for the dedicated scanners.
However, I can't seem to find any of those kinds of products now...
do they still exist?
Joe Dunfee