mdc@indetech.UUCP (Mark Copple) (05/09/89)
Howdy, I have just recently bought a Panasonic "Apogee" personal portable digital copier. It consists of a flatbed 200dpi scanner and thermal transfer printer. It actually works quite well (on smooth paper). In the documentation that accompanied the copier was information on another product that is designed to work with the copier. This is the Panasonic Video interface device. The interface takes NTSC video input via an RCA pin-jack and connects to the copier via a db-15 connector. The video interface will capture a picture (in a real slow 2 seconds) and send it to the copier where it is then printed. First, has anyone else ever seen or used the copier with the video interface, if so, do you know what the resolution is? Second, does anyone know what kind of signals are produced on the db15 interface connector? My desire is to build a simple interface so that I can use the video interface module with my PC as a frame grabber (so its slow .. its still pretty cheep (~200.00 for the interface) I am assuming that the video interface produces either serial or parallel information that is sent to the printer. if thats the case it should be pretty simple to build the additional hardware to read it into the PC port. If i manage to get this far I will work on a program to produce TIFF images from the input. Any information at all would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance Mark D. Copple Independence Technologies (415) 438-2028