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From: cnd@mailbox.brisnet.org.au (Geoff & Friends)
Subject: NEEDED : electronics & software bridge for printer-copier
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CHALLENGE : Hack Kodak 1575 printer-copier

Kodak has made a machine that can scan in paper documents at about 100
images per minute in high resolution, store the images on a temporary RAM
come hard disk and then print the scans at about 80 pages per minute
(deleting the scanned images at the end of the print job). Sounds like the
greatest scanner and fast laser copier ever built ?


It would have been a pretty amazing device except for the fact that Kodak
"neglected" to build an interface to store the scanned images permanently
into an external hard disk for back and forth transfers (ie for uploading
scanned images for OCR and to download word processing / graphics files
for printing).


The ability to send a computer-generated print job to the printer is
available in their 1580 model (released 6 months later), but for $$$$
(though it comes with software drivers for Mac and Windows). The "high
tech" 1580 still has no ability to store the scanned images though. I
suspect they have done this to limit customers' options and to extract
maximum revenue by planned obsolescence and selling expensive external
scanners.


What I need is someone who can build the electronics and software bridge
(for a fee, of cour$e). Please contact Geoff at cnd@mailbox.brisnet.org.au
or call (909) 676-6272 in California (coming to east coast late November)
if this is interesting to you.
