Microfiche Reader Printer Gives Hard Copies Of Documents

2007-05-02 10:04:19

( Computers )



The internet may have made research easier, but you cannot find everything here. Most of the genealogical materials and records are stored either on a digital microfilm or a microfiche. You will usually come across a microfiche in family histories, some books, directories, catalogs and indexes. Microfiche is a sheet microfilm, configured usually in a 4-inch by 6-inch acetate card, or similar to a large index card. It can contain a large number of pages of documents but in a reduced form. As a storage media, it is less expensive than photocopy or printed copies of documents.

You can only get access to the information stored in microfiche with the use of microfiche reader. Portable (handheld) reader, tabletop reader and a combined microfiche reader printer are the three types of microfiche readers. You will find libraries utilizing either the tabletop reader or the microfiche reader printer.

Microfiche reader printer is actually a microfiche reader that is linked to printing device. This is expensive equipment, but it offers more versatility. The printer allows you to reproduce a full-size image of a specific frame in your microfiche and print it on paper. The image would be the same as what you see on the viewing screen of a microfiche reader printer. After you press the controls for a printed copy, the microfiche reader printer will require only a few seconds develop the sheet in its base and deliver the print to you.

There are microfiche reader printers that use liquid developer for printing. Models that use powder developers instead of liquid are usually easier to maintain. Due to the high cost of a microfiche reader printer, not many libraries can afford to have them. The expense can be justified only if there is heavy use of microfiche scanning and many orders for printed copies of pages in the stored documents.


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