Preserving Thermal Printouts

[Duane Hess]

Well SteveC beat me to it.

Most all libraries have copy services available. Here in Nebraska its about 15 cents a page; which is a bit much to me.

I have a very old Canon scanner (15 yrs?) from expense-Bay (fortunately on the cheap). There are many units listed, most all antiquated, but lets face it, if it has a USB interface, you can likely use it with most any free-bee software. Most any old brand of scanner is good enough for thermal printouts, most all documents, books, etc. What old scanner can't do at least 300x300DPI? (or 600x600)

I've kept thermal printouts for about 10 years by the "scrap book" method. Flatten them out and put in folders or tape them to writing paper first. Basically flattened and sandwiched in whatever format. Stuffed in a drawer/shelf away from sunlight and in household environmental conditions.

However, would have to admit I've never intended to keep a printout into perpetuity. Just try to keep the equipment running that long.