Greetings from the stacks of core memory in Glendale Arizona... (
Visitors... please do not unwind the rolls of paper tape... it is storage
not decorative streamers!)

Well we needed a color printer for the Museum so went to  the product line
of my old favorite HP... ok  went to Fry's Electronics, dealt with the
'dancing suits' actually leaned more by going over to the earthlink booth in
the store and logging on to the hp web site... seemed none of them really
new the specs too well.

Gosh if they had been computer exchange employees they would have been
sliding out into the parking lot on their asses...

 Since I have a small desk in the reference library figured it was best to
have a scanner  and printer I could  rack one over the other... saw the
officejet series and  that solved the problem of having to build a rack..
both units in one!
Bought The biggest baddest one they had the  d155, set it up played lots
with it.

Lots of  added  but not at the moment needed but perhaps someday useful
features such as

1.It is a fax machine also!

2. The  d155 officejet will accept memory cards of various types and also
memory sticks and allow you to print form them direct....

good points...
1. fast
2. don't have to build no stinking rack on my desk!
3. easy to learn without having to read a manual!
4. do not have to buy a copier now either!
5. good color and sharpness... magazine covers we are using in the WW 2
radio and radar exhibit look like  the orig.


Bad points...
1. the provided OCR Software blows chunks!
You can expect better OCR from a musetek 79  dollar scanner.
This is really all I hate about this unit... great otherwise!

I did download a real copy of readiris to evaluate... this was better  and
more useful . would still consider the vastly more expensive omnipage due to
the fact we have to scan 2 sided manuscripts and the omnipage can collate
the output back to the way it came in as far as  front and back etc....

anyone else have any good OCR ideas?

back to sorting ferrite doughnuts....
--
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC

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http://www.smecc.org

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