mentat@ut-ngp.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) (10/10/86)
I am considering buying a digitizer, and am attempting to conduct some sort
of survey of what's on the market. If anyone could provide pointers to art-
icles published within the last few years that have dealt with Macintosh
digitizers or digitizers in general, please send me email.
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Dept. of Astronomy mentat%walt@ngp.utexas.edu
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{ihnp4,seismo,sally}!ngp!mentat@waltsdh@joevax.UUCP (The Doctor) (10/10/86)
> I am considering buying a digitizer, and am attempting to conduct some sort > of survey of what's on the market. If anyone could provide pointers to art- > icles published within the last few years that have dealt with Macintosh > digitizers or digitizers in general, please send me email. > There was an excellent article in MacWorld about a year ago concerning digitizers for the Mac. They compared 4 different ones, I believe. The cover has a picture of Andy Hertzfeld leaning on a Mac displaying his picture. In the same vein, does anyone know of any digitizers capable of accurately reproducing text (or text and line drawings)? Thunder Scan is just above the barely readable level, and Magic is insufficient. Steve Hawley joevax!sdh
herbw@midas.UUCP (Herb Weiner) (10/17/86)
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The Magic(TM) video digitizer from New Image Technology (10300 Greenbelt Road,
Seabrook, Maryland 20706, (301) 464-3100) is now available with new software
(if you already have a Magic digitizer, you can get a software upgrade) that
supports higher resolution images -- specifically, 432 x 640 pixels with up
to 256 gray levels per pixel. These images print out beautifully on a Laser-
Writer or other PostScript printer. Output is either PostScript or Aldus
Tag Image File Format (TIFF), which can be Placed by Version 2.0 of PageMaker.
New Image Technology will soon be announcing (you can tell them I spilled the
beans) a 300 DPI scanner that can scan 8-1/2 x 11 pages for less than $1500.
(It uses a Canon scanner, and interfaces to the SCSI port on a MacPlus.)
Scan modes are 2-value (black/white only) or dithered halftone. I've
successfully Placed the output into PageMaker, and the results are quite
nice.
Disclaimer: I am developing software under contract to New Image Technology,
so I am not an impartial observer. However, I do not receive
any royalties or commissions on sales.
-- Herb Weiner (...!tektronix!midas!herbw)