[ale] copiers: one more thing to be paranoid about

[Jim Kinney]

Um, duh! They're called _copiers_

"I'm a copier. I make copies" <bender's office machine friend>

It may be time to dig apart some printers as well and look for document
storage abilities. Reprint ability requires document storage ability.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 08:13 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > I'm curious about this.  Must be a pretty large drive.  Think about
> > it.
> > Just last night, someone copied a document for me that I know is at
> > least 200 pages. Further, why would it be necessary to retain all
> > such
> > copies?  Certainly it must purge older documents to make room for
> > newer
> > ones?
>
> Yes, though with compression, those documents can compress pretty well.
> I know at least one copy machine that does scan-to-PDF, and it can get
> 50 pages in about 800KiB, depending on the amount of whitespace on the
> page.
>
> Extending that out and assuming that such numbers are close to the
> average, that would mean that a page works out to about 16KiB, and for a
> 40 GB drive that would mean the ability to store (not counting the
> filesystem overhead and metadata) 2.6 million pages.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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