🚀 go-pugleaf

>Can somebody explain this to me??
>
>I tried to Xerox a flat mirror. The paper came out pitch black.

>Well??

Makes sense...   If you think about the geometry of the
illumination and imaging systems in the copier, you'll
realize that the light source and imageing lens/drum
cannot be on the same path. The original is lighted from
the side(s), while the lens is carried along perpendicularly
to the paper's surface:

                 Original
            =======================
      Lamp   \*__ 
                     <==>  Lens

                      --
                     (__)  Photo-sensitive drum



What the imaging system would "see" would be a reflection of
its own reflected or emitted light, NOT the light from the
lamp. Those parts are carefully designed not to reflect any
significant amount of light onto the original or carrier plate.
If they did, a shiny original, or even worse, the glass carrier,
would always cast a reflection on the image...


Dave