A little OT: Google

[Jim Leonard]

Tony Duell wrote:
> Would a normal flatbed scanner have enough resolution to scan a page of 
> softstrips and then decode the image in software again?

Yes.  Did this for an essay a while back; from my rotting memory, the 
SoftStrip Laser StripMaker manual said that for a 300 DPI desktop laser 
printer, the densities are approximately as follows:

- Low density: 590 bytes per 100mm
- Medium density: 1040 bytes per 100mm
- High density: 1630 bytes per 100mm

Maximum strip length for vertical strips is 240mm and for horizontal 
strips 175mm.

I don't believe that strips were produced higher than 300 DPI ;-) so a 
$50 1200 DPI scanner could exceed nyquist and get them in B&W monochrome 
mode.
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