[geeks] GPIB on film recorders

[Dave McGuire]

On February 23, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> I've been poking aroung ebay looking at film recorders, and if appears
> that a lot of the more professional looking ones use GPIB to interface to
> the controlling computer.  Now, I'm used to seeing GPIB (and the National
> Instruments name, since one comes with an NI GPIB card) in scientific data
> aquisition.  Is this the same GPIB?

  Yup!  Film recorders are used a lot in medical imaging, and
integrated medical imaging systems tend to use a lot of GPIB.

> Any one ever work with film recorders?  These things usually require special
> RIP software, don't they...

  Yup, usually.

    -Dave

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