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gnubler

February 29, 2012, 11:37:14 AM
We had someone come in our front door with 40 yr old building plans on microfiche that he wanted printed out. Has anyone dealt with this before and does it involve a neg scanner? (we don't have one). We referred him to a repro place in town that does maps and stuff.
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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February 29, 2012, 11:39:18 AM
Quote from: gnubler on February 29, 2012, 11:37:14 AMWe had someone come in our front door with 40 yr old building plans on microfiche that he wanted printed out. Has anyone dealt with this before and does it involve a neg scanner? (we don't have one). We referred him to a repro place in town that does maps and stuff.

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February 29, 2012, 12:04:02 PM
Oddly enough I'm currently reading a book about how libraries destroyed millions of books to preserve on microfiche. Is this even still used? I haven't seen one of those slide readers since I was a young whippersnapper.

I guess google's book scanning project has dwarfed whatever's left of microfiche archives.
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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February 29, 2012, 12:04:12 PM
how much pointing and laughing was involved?

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February 29, 2012, 12:10:58 PM
Quote from: gnubler on February 29, 2012, 12:04:02 PMOddly enough I'm currently reading a book about how libraries destroyed millions of books to preserve on microfiche. Is this even still used? I haven't seen one of those slide readers since I was a young whippersnapper.

I guess google's book scanning project has dwarfed whatever's left of microfiche archives.
I remember visiting the library when I was in college and they had an extensive microfiche section, which (and I honestly don't know why I know this) included the entire run of Playboy.
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February 29, 2012, 12:14:03 PM
I was going to suggest  to take it to the library or a local newspaper.
they should all have a microfiche printer, maybe.
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February 29, 2012, 12:15:13 PM
being how we are government, i got a whole room of micro crap stored, plus we have handy little readers that convert the film to print..

its all going away, being replaced with http://www.laserfiche.com/en-us  - Ray Morgan Co. crammed this up our kiester, and we are going to convert over to it. 
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