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Rob Dawes
15th September 2017, 02:40 PM
Hello all im hoping you can help me. I had hung up my camera for good a while back and realise now in my old age (76) that i do miss photography and developing my work, I am in the process of setting up a new darkroom, but now i realise the i have lost my user manual for my
Paterson PDT 2020 Enlarging Exposure Meter/Timer (System 200).
Does anyone on the forum have a copy that i can see PLEASE.
Thanks in anticipation Rob
Barry
15th September 2017, 04:20 PM
Welcome to fadu Rob, I can't help with your question but hopefully someone here can.
Mike O'Pray
15th September 2017, 04:47 PM
Welcome to FADU, Rob. I too have the PDT2020 and the instruction booklet but there's a problem. I have just tried to scan the pages and frankly they are illegible.
There is always the back-up of taking the 4 pages to my local photo-copying machine in my local library and then sending by post but e-mailing them is much easier, quicker and cheaper but I may need help from others here to see if there is anything I can do to make the scans legible.
I have a HP Deskjet 2510 and in the past I have done successful scans of normal typewritten pages and even a scan of a print just to see what it was like but no such luck this time with the instruction booklet.
I note that the scans are jpeg if that is of any help to those who can offer advice.
Maybe the forum can help here.
Mike
John King
15th September 2017, 06:14 PM
Has your scanner got a setting which will make some items unreadable after scanning, this is an anti counterfeiting measure. It is usually possible to turn this off.
Mike O'Pray
15th September 2017, 06:24 PM
Has your scanner got a setting which will make some items unreadable after scanning, this is an anti counterfeiting measure. It is usually possible to turn this off.
Not that I can see, John. It is a simple scanner no doubt compared to many others. Th scanner is part of a quite basic printer but as I said, in the past it has produced quite good scans of legal docs and the like.
Maybe the printing can be scanned as other than a jpeg to improve matters but even if this is possible I have no idea how
Mike
Mike
Rob Dawes
15th September 2017, 07:56 PM
Thanks for the welcome Barry. (I realise now i have posted on the wrong section perhaps Admin can move it ,Sorry )
Hello Mike, I would be more than happy to pay the costs of photocopying etc . Thanks you and you John.
Bill
16th September 2017, 07:41 AM
Welcome to the forum Rob.
Not too sure if this will help but in the Manuals section of the forum there is a copy of the manual for the PDT 1020. Would that give you a start until the PDT 2020 manual from Mike is available?
It can be found at http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10711
Bill
Rob Dawes
16th September 2017, 07:12 PM
Thanks for the welcome Bill, and thanks for the link, i will get my mate to download it a print it for me, many many thanks.
Mike O'Pray
17th September 2017, 01:22 PM
Rob, something appears to have gone wrong here. I was able to figure out a way of making the scans legible late on Friday night and sent a message via the e-mail option to you on Friday night but your post here on Saturday indicates that you have no knowledge of it.
Now I think of it the option to send an e-mail was there but it gave me no e-mail details, However I assumed that this simply meant that this was to prevent the e-mail being seen in case the recipient decides that he doesn't want his privacy revealed once he sees the particular e-mail and who the sender is.
Maybe a MOD can explain how this works
I used the e-mail option, thinking that as I know how to send attachments i.e the scans via e-mail that would be easier that trying anything via the FADU PM message system.
Rob, send a message to me via the FADU PM message system with your e-mail address and I can send the scans via the attachments later today.
Mike
Rob Dawes
17th September 2017, 05:58 PM
Hello Mike, I have sent to you by PM my details. Thanks Mike.
Jeroen
10th July 2019, 12:43 PM
I'm also looking for a copy of the PDT-2020 user manual - especially information on how to connect it to the enlarger so it can be used as an exposure timer. I'd be very obliged!!
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