Hello!
I just signed up as a forum member, and wanted to share a project we're currently working on, in hopes that someone may have some ideas on making prints for a microfiche machine.
We've taken an old microfiche (like the ones libraries used to have) and mechanized the microfilm tray with stepper motors, a CNC shield and an arduino. We can now program it to slide to any coordinates we would like.
Now, we want to print something ourselves instead of using the catalogue films we have on hand. We were thinking of the following options:
- Finding a large format film camera and just taking a photo of a wall of text and develop the negative
- Putting a transparency through a high PPM printer (this would still appears very large on a microfiche)
- Using Peizography (the best-but-most-difficult-option: https://piezography.com/)
If anyone has any experience on any of the above, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Especially anyone that may have a large format film camera or know where to find one we can rent.