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CopibookThe following lists equipment used by the Digital Library Center at the University of Florida Libraries. This list should not be taken as an endorsement of any manufacturer's product. Those using this list as a guide for their own purchases should be cautioned that equipment suited to the Center's specific needs, source documents, or fitness-for-purpose determinations may not be suited to another institution's needs, the source documents they intend to image, or meet other fitness-for-purpose requirements.

i2S CopiBook
24-bit color
Specifications
Camera: 35MP for each of three color channels
Platen: 15.5 x 23 inches
Pixel Resolution: 300 ppi maximum
Connections: ethernet network connectivity (not used - scanning to external hard drives that travel with source documents to other processing stages, e.g., quality control, text conversion, mark-up, and archiving)
Lighting: not used with ambient lighting, instead work area lit by Fluorescent Work Light (day light balanced; mounted individually)
Remarks: to mitigate ambient shadow, unit is mounted with a flat black faom-core hood
Price: between $32,000 - $38,000 (Consult vendors for current pricing) + $200 for work lights and foam-core hood.
  Deployment:seven (7) units deployed within the Digital Library Center's offices for bound book and newspaper scanning
Primary Use:bound books, unbound newspapers, and periodically other oversized materials
Example Projects, Used for:UFDC Children's Literature (selected items); Florida Digital Newspaper Library (selected titles)
  Staffing: used by student assistants under the supervision of the Imaging Unit's Newspaper and Production Section heads.
   CopiBooks in Use
 
Device ID # Base # Head # ID# Activation Code Version
1 261700 272701 261117 1ZGOWGROG663G 2.6.5 RGB
2 271660 271406 270741 1XABH88VVYKPK 2.6.5 RGB
3 261405 261704 261111 2OKKIWNQBG5EI 2.6.5 RGB
4 261404 261402 260606 1V1MXGQYD42W2 2.6.5 RGB
5 262700 262801 260621 21NJD8AA4JLPI 2.6.5 RGB
6 271162 264411 264411 1XA5X0H8CHWT8 2.6.5 RGB
7 262701 262701 262701 1YDQIJEN0EA3Q 2.6.5 RGB
Konica Minolta PS7000
with grayscale up-grade
Specifications
Platen: 17 x 23 inches
Pixel Resolution: 400 ppi at 17 x 23 inches
Connections:ethernet network connectivity (not used - scanning to external hard drives that travel with source documents to other processing stages, e.g., quality control, text conversion, mark-up, and archiving)
Lighting: internal fluorescent lighting
Price: between $15,000 - $18,000 (Consult vendors for current pricing.)
  Deployment:one (1) units deployed within the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections + another unit on Access Services Department inventory is maintained by the InterLibrary Loan Unit.
Primary Use:bound books>
Example Projects, Used for: UFDC Open Stacks Project (selected items)
  Staffing: used by trained Special Collections staff for in-department projects feeding into UFDC
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