The simplest thing I can think of is, some Newspapers & large Libraries have
microfiche printers... next comes the graphic arts equipment I've worked
with .... A Lucy... is a large overhead projector type enlarger that you can
blowup just about anything from..... or have them printed from an 8x10
enlarger, or scanned on an 8x10 or drum scanner... or cut up and scanned on
a 4x5 film scanner... there is always more than a few ways to do things....
My 1st choice... call your largest library.. 2nd... call KINKOS... I'm sure
they have had this thrown at them before... if not.... wake'um UP.... But in
general... a good idea worth follow up.
Cheers
Rob
87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure 79k km
Moonstone Ont.
rountree@planeteer.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Eyes <lvlearn@MCI2000.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 1999 2:02 AM
Subject: Crisp detailed Jpegs from Vanagon Microfiche wanted - please help

>Since I have, WE have one genuine dealer Vanagon Microfiche.   It has about
102
>pages of wonderful exploded views and part numbers that could serve this
>community of friends.   The  fiche measures 9.3 inches by 7.1 inch.
Individual
>pages are laid out in a format .9 cm wide by .7 cm. tall.  This appears to
be
>like either A size or 11 inch by 8 1/2 as a comparable full size hardcopy
>equivalent.  To give you a feel for the scale of this reduction, that's
about
>1/1000th of the full size area per page and a linear reduction by a factor
of
>about 31.4 to 1.   My scanner is capable of true optical resolution as fine
as
>600 by 1200.  Interpolation "resolution" beyond the optical limits won't
help
>us.  600 x 1200 dpi sounds pretty good for detailed examination of postage
>stamps etc., but when we divide that by 31.4 it's only the full page size
>equivalent to 19.1 by 38.2 dots per inch!  That's not even close to being
fine
>enough to what we need.
>
>I hope one among us has access to the high accuracy scanning equipment
>necessary to make really crisp detailed Jpegs directly.  If that connection
>fails, we can try to optically enlarge each page and then scan the
resulting
>hard copy into Jpegs that could display on most computers.  It would be a
poor
>decision to skimp on the conversion quality by accepting some marginally
blurry
>public library machine.  These might be used over and over by, well, who
knows
>where someone like Bob might send them.  If you can get this scanned by one
of
>the right kind of dedicated optical equipment, contact me and let's talk.
All
>on this List should thank you.
>John
>