Um, duh! They're called _copiers_<br><br>"I'm a copier. I make copies" <bender's office machine friend><br><br>It may be time to dig apart some printers as well and look for document storage abilities. Reprint ability requires document storage ability.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 08:13 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:<br>
> I'm curious about this. Must be a pretty large drive. Think about<br>
> it.<br>
> Just last night, someone copied a document for me that I know is at<br>
> least 200 pages. Further, why would it be necessary to retain all<br>
> such<br>
> copies? Certainly it must purge older documents to make room for<br>
> newer<br>
> ones?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, though with compression, those documents can compress pretty well.<br>
I know at least one copy machine that does scan-to-PDF, and it can get<br>
50 pages in about 800KiB, depending on the amount of whitespace on the<br>
page.<br>
<br>
Extending that out and assuming that such numbers are close to the<br>
average, that would mean that a page works out to about 16KiB, and for a<br>
40 GB drive that would mean the ability to store (not counting the<br>
filesystem overhead and metadata) 2.6 million pages.<br>
<br>
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