Pre-Owned, Low Usage Contex ACS-4200 Aperture Card Scanner

* This is a pre-owned ACS 4200 with very little usage. One owner unit with all original software, cables and even original crate packaging. 30 Day repair warranty.

Includes ScanOS software that allows for batch scanning, printing or viewing. (Software sells for $1200 new!)

The ACS 4200 Aperture Card Scanners are monochrome scanners for microfilm mounted on aperture cards.
They are cost effective solutions for fast, high volume scanning and workstation engineering. The Aperture Card Scanners support automatic scanning features such as a built-in automatic card feeder and a separate bin for sorting out and collecting rejected cards.

There is a multitude of microfilms in the world but with the technological progress, digital filing has become a cheaper and thus attractive alternative to microfilm filing. Also, digital filing is more flexible and requires less space than filing on microfilm. Many businesses have therefore launched projects to convert microfilms into digital data, by scanning aperture cards with digitizers from Contex.

The ACS scanners are designed for fast and reliable throughput. The automatic card feeding mechanism draws each card from the loading bin, interprets its Hollerith code, stages it for scanning, and then ejects it to the output bin at high speeds while caring for even old and fragile aperture cards. With the card staged in the scanner, the ACS 4200 will scan a typical D-size/A1 CAD drawing at 200 dpi in only 19 seconds. Total throughput time for a batch of these cards is 180 cards/hour on the ACS 4200 model.

Features

• Up to 400 dpi scan resolution.
• Digitize from E-size/A0 to Asize/A4 stored on Aperture Cards.
• Handles oversizes up to 59"x44".
• Reduction rations 37x to 7.5x.
• Automatic size detection and file naming through hollerith code.
• Scans 180 cards per hour..
• 2D-Adaptive Thresholding and 8 bit graytone levels.
• Supports real-time image processing.
• Flexible connectivity - SCSI-2
• 3C Automatic Maintenance System.
• Built in Basic calibration of black-and-white point.
• Scan to network, also across the internet.
  

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