IMAGE TECHNOLOGY

Image Technology Contd

The storage of documents or other data that
includes text, graphics, tables, and pictures
is called image technology.
Technologies considered to be
image technology
Optical disk
Micrographics
Facsimile
Scanning
Digital camera
Optical Disks
An electronic image media.
Advantages:
High storage capacity and durability.
High speed retrieval (random access).
High resolution output to monitors.
Optical Disks contd
Disadvantages:
Expensive
Legal admissibility of documents on optical
disks has not been determined.
Types of Optical Disk Storage
Compact Disk Read-Only Memory (CD-
ROM).
Compact Disk (WORM) - Write-Once/Read
Many times.
Compact Disk rewritable (CD-RW) -
Erasable Optical Disk.
Digital Videodisk or digital versatile disk
(DVD) A read-only optical storage
medium that stores approx. 130 minutes of
full-motion video.
Types of Optical Disk Storage
contd
Recordable Disk (DVD-R) A recordable
DVD.
Digital videodisk rewritable (DVD-RW)
A rewritable DVD.
Computer output to laser disk (COLD) A
technique for the transfer of computer-
generated output to optical disk so that it
can be viewed or printed without using the
original programme.
Types of Optical Disk Storage contd
Optical card A small electronic device about the
size of a credit card.
Integrated Image Systems
Computer-Assisted Retrieval (CAR)
Computer-Output Microform (COM)
Computer-Input Microform (CIM)
Computer Output to Laser Disk (COLD)
Hybrid Imaging Systems

Image Records Retention
Microfilm records can be stored for
hundreds of years under carefully controlled
environment.
Optical disks have life spans ranging from
10 to 100 years (depending on brand,
storage, and use conditions).


Micrographics
Micrographics technology minimizes
information. It refers to the procedures for
creating, using and storing micro-records.
Micrographics contd
Microforms are any forms, either films or
paper, containing micro-reproductions of
documents for transmission, storage,
reading, and printing.
Microform images are commonly reduced
to about one twenty-fifth (1/25) of the
original document size.
Types of Microforms

Roll film
Microfiche

Ultrafiche

Jacket

Aperture Card

Non-standard Microform

Types of Camera
Planetary Camera

Rotary Camera

Microfilm Reader-Printer

Microfiche Reader

Microfiche Reader-Printer
Microform Procedures &
Equipment
Document preparation
Camera film
Image size
Image Orientation
Types of cameras
Auxiliary equipment