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Re: Older forms of microforms Holly Hill 10 May 1996 16:44 UTC

According to Dan Lester:
>
> As I'm sure many libraries do, we have of "antique"
> microforms.  I'm not referring to ancient reels of
> newspapers, but to things like Ultrafiche,
> Microcard, and Microprint.  We no longer have any
> equipment that will deal with these except for one
> ancient micro-opaque reader that will die
> momentarily.  And, of course, we have no
> equipment that will print from any of them.
>
> <snip>

Dan,
You should be able to keep using your Ultrafiche with a high
magnification lens on the reader/printer. We bought an 87X lens
with one of our Minolta RP605Z for ultrafiche printing and it
works like a charm. Of course, the machine cost is in the $10,000
range.

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Holly K. Hill, Van Noy Library, Ft. Belvoir, VA
hhill@leo.vsla.edu