Mobile assistant

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    For a long time I am a reader of Habrahabr, but somehow there was no reason to write an article in the sandbox. And recently, after reading about the Stick Pop Pocket Printer , I remembered that a box like this had been lying in the closet for a long time:
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    (diskette for size estimation)

    If anyone didn’t understand, it’s a starship printer, or if it’s more accurate, then “Color portable bubble-ink printer with the ability to install a Canon BJC-80 scan head. "

    Key Features:

    Printing Method: Bubble Inkjet Printing

    Color Printing:
    BC-11e Color Printing Cartridge Ink
    Colors: Black, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow
    Printhead: 64 nozzles for black and 24 nozzles for each color
    Black ink cartridge: BCI-11Bk - approximately 40 pages (7.5% coverage)
    Color ink cartridge: BCI-11B - approximately 35 pages (7.5% coverage)
    Print speed: Approximately 0.3 to 2 pages per minute (color printing)
    Approximately 4 pages per minute (black and white printing)

    Black and white printing:
    BC-10Bk cartridge Ink
    color: Black
    Print head: 128 nozzles
    Ink cartridge: BCI-10 - approximately 120 pages (7.5% coverage)
    Printing speed: Approximately 4 pages per minute

    Resolution: 360x360 dpi (720x360 dpi with anti-aliasing)

    Paper size: Standard size s to A4 / Legal

    Interface: 8 bits Parallel, IrDA 1.0

    Noise level: 45 dB or less

    Energy consumption (maximum):
    Standby: 5 W
    Printing: 30 W

    Weight: 1.4 kg

    Dimensions: 300x157.6x57 mm

    Options:
    NK-300 battery (50-page resource)
    AD-360 universal adapter
    IS-12 color scanning head The

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    device was brought from Germany and has been idle for at least 5 years. I could not find the year of release on the case, but judging by the fact that the drivers are only for Windows 95/98, this is somewhere around 97-98. It was not possible to find the printer, the cartridges have already dried up. This was at a time when machinery for export was produced in Japan. This printer was no exception, everywhere the words Made in Japan, even on cartridges and the power supply!
    Of course, by today's standards, print speed and quality are low, but at the time of release I think it was very good, especially for a mobile printer.

    As you can see from the specifications, the printer is connected to the computer via either LPT or infrared interface. The latter provides printing and scanning at a distance of up to one meter.
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    This is how it looks ready to work:
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    In the bowels of the printer, a chest of gold was found; a cartridge for black-and-white printing:
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    Also included were a color cartridge and a scanning head:
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    Canon IS-12 Color Scanning Head allows you to use the printer as a full-color long-range scanner. The transition from printing to scanning is quite simple - the cartridge is pulled out and a scanning head is installed in its place. To return to printing, the process is performed in the reverse order.

    Characteristics of the scanning head:
    Light source: LEDs
    Scanning method: In 3 passes (R, G, B)
    Resolution: 360 x 360 dpi
    Scanning speed:
    Black and white: A4 format - 0.45-0.59 min / page. (LPT-ECP)
    Color: A4 format - 3.16-6.58 min / page (LPT-ECP) The
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    battery declared in the options was not included. Perhaps already thrown out.
    The printer is working quite loudly, at least the process of preparing for work. Although probably depending on what to compare, dot matrix printers widespread in Russia at that time were much more noisy.
    I have never seen such devices anymore, I think the device was not cheap. Yes, and probably was in operation gold. Found on used eBay at a price of ~ $ 20-25, for connoisseurs.
    One can only guess about the price in those years.

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