An easier way to scan bound volumes
Sep 1, 2005 11:00 AM, By Katherine O'Brien
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InRegister readers recently learned how AMERICAN PRINTER helped one of the largest graphic arts repositories in the United States complete its collection of Inland Printer magazines. David Pankow, the curator of RIT’s (Rochester, NY) Cary Library had re-acquired an almost complete set of back issues—except for some missing 1895 issues. (See www.rit.edu/~spms.)
We gladly loaned RIT our bound volumes. Michael Hansen, an RIT Print Media graduate student, used a special scanner on temporary loan to the school—the Kirtas APT BookScan 1200—to quickly capture the data without damaging the bound books. Each Inland Printer page was saved as a 7 MB JPEG file. All issues totaled 25 GB of storage.
The BookScan, a $100,000+ scanner, uses a robotic arm to flip pages past a 16-megapixel Canon camera. The BookScan zips along at 1,200 pages per hour, but its automatic page turning process is reportedly gentler than a human hand. (That’s definitely a good thing when you’re working with 110-year-old magazines!)
According to Kirtas, its SureTurn automatic page turner combines advanced vacuum and robotic technologies to pick up, separate, and turn pages gently and reliably. The robotic arm works in tandem with SmartCradle, a patented V-shaped cradle that supports books of varying size and thickness. By dynamically maintaining the top page within the imaging focal plane, claims Kirtas, the SmartCradle ensures a consistent scan. (See www.kirtas-tech.com.)
Kirtas will be exhibiting at the Assn. of Records Managers and Administrators’ (ARMA) 50th annual conference in Chicago, Sept. 18-21. (See www.arma.com.)
The Inland Printer/AMERICAN PRINTER connection
Inland Printer was founded in 1883 in Chicago and is said to be the first publication for the printing industry in the United States. Inland Printer acquired AMERICAN PRINTER after 1938, when AP editor and publisher John Clyde Oswald died. (Inland Printer had previously competed with AMERICAN PRINTER.)
In the 1970s, Inland Printer, then called Inland Printer & American Printer, chose the AMERICAN PRINTER name. The magazine’s owner at that time, McLean-Hunter, also owned Canadian Printer and British Printer.
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