I'm going to ask one of these off the HP3000 topic questions, but I just feel
that the
wide variety of experiences people on this list seem to have, someone might
have an
answer for me.
Here's the situation; This summer I helped organize my 25th High School class
reunion
(yup, I'm that old!). And since I had never made a scrapbook while I was in
high school,
I thought it would be fun to go down to the newspaper and try to get some
copies of
newspapers from my high school years. Copies of football scores, wrestling and
basketball
games, that sort of thing. Stuff that I was involved in and basically just
anything that someone
in my class was mentioned in, be it 4H club meetings or football games.
Anyway what I discovered was that the newspapers had all been archived onto
microfilm.
And the microfilm reader had a thermal printer. But after printing a few
pages, I was very
disappointed in the quality of the printout. If you set the printing to a
lighter setting, where you
could see faces in the photographs, then the words were too light. And if you
set it darker
to read the story, the faces in the photos were too dark to figure out who was
who. And then
I had to consider that if I was to make copies of this for other people,
running this poor quality
printout thru a copier, did nothing to improve it.
So what I am asking for is, does anyone know of a way, that this microfilm
could be read into
a PC and then worked on. Both for searching for relevant stories, and then for
somehow cleaning
up the page and getting a decent printout.
thanks and sorry about the off topic (I hope no one yells at me..like the
chicken jokes).
Paul D. Christensen - contract address [log in to unmask]
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Osakis MN (www.lakeosakismn.com)
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