Very interesting indeed! Although quite where we'd put it... Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 4 September 2012 15:19, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > This may be of interest. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Emma Cavalier <ecaval...@npg.org.uk> > Date: 4 September 2012 15:09 > Subject: Context A2 scanner for sale > To: m...@jiscmail.ac.uk > > > The National Portrait Gallery have recently installed a brand new > photographic studio and no longer have use for their Contex CopyMate18 A2 > scanner. > Rather than send the still working scanner for disposal we'd like to invite > offers from institutions who might be able to make use of it. Recommended > use would be digitising newspapers or other large documents. Monochrome > photographs required quite a bit of post-scanning processing in Photoshop > although full colour photographs were quite successful. The scanner did not > replace our A4 or A3 scanning equipment but was purchased to allow us to > digitise works larger than A3. > We are offering the CopyMate 18 scanner, usb & power cables, calibration > chart, all the scanner software (original cds and more recent downloads), > third party software and dongle from Colorado (this give us more accurate > colour output than the Contex software), plus electronic copies of > instruction manuals from Contex and basic installation, common errors and > maintenance instructions written in-house). The software is Windows only > and > requires a PC with at least 3GB of RAM. The scanner was purchased in 2006 > and used approximately once a week. It was last serviced, including new > lamps in April 2009 and has not been used for the last 4 months. > It measures approximately 130 x 65 x 20 cm and at least two people will be > needed to move it. It will need to be collected from the National Portrait > Gallery's administration building in Central London by the end of > September. > The scanner will be sold as seen, no guarantee is given or implied. It will > be possible to view the scanner in action at the Gallery at the time of > collection. The contact details of the maintenance company we used for > servicing can be provided and we recommend that the scanner is serviced > after installing it in its final location. > > Please email Emma Cavalier if you are interested. > > Best regards > Emma Cavalier > Digitisation Manager, National Portrait Gallery > ecaval...@npg.org.uk > > > > **************************************************************** > website: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ukmcg > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/museumscomputergroup > [un]subscribe: http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ > **************************************************************** > > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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