[comp.sys.hp] Matrix film recorder?

jjhnsn@ut-sally.UUCP (James Lee Johnson) (12/03/87)

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In article <2263@utah-gr.UUCP> mjb%hoosier.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-gr.UUCP (Mark J. Bradakis) writes:
>We will soon be getting a Matrix QCR-Z variable resolution film recorder,
>which will supposedly hook up to an HPIB interface, on one of our 200 or 300
>machines.  Has anyone else done such a thing?  Thanks for any info,

I am working on a program to control a Matrix PCR film recorder from an
HP 300.   I have only developed one roll of film, but the results look
very promising.

You may be interested to know that I chose to use the Utah-rle format
for raster input to my program.  For testing I used the mandrill.rle and
lenna.rle images supplied with the raster toolkit.  The images came out
beautifully, and about 12 of them would fit on one 35mm slide at the
2048 resolution!  I haven't tried using the 4096 resolution yet.

I will be doing further work on the program.  Utah is welcome to a copy
if you are interested.  I am using a QCR-Z manual, so it should work on
your film recorder.

    jj
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mjb%hoosier.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Mark J. Bradakis) (01/21/88)

We will soon be getting a Matrix QCR-Z variable resolution film recorder,
which will supposedly hook up to an HPIB interface, on one of our 200 or 300
machines.  Has anyone else done such a thing?  Thanks for any info,

mjb.


mjb@hoosier.utah.edu