digikey printed catalog

Newark still has a printed catalogue, so you can get one for free.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Agreed. OTOH, paper takes up a LOT of space. I had several thousand pounds of "paper" when I moved here. After some aggressive "pruning", gifting and scanning, I'm *still* intimidated by the amount that remains!

I've not yet found a "mechanism" with which to comfortably view the digitized stuff. Some of this has to do with the "feel" of the medium. Other aspects include convenience, etc. E.g., we become accustomed to leaving a book open at a particular point, inserting *physical* bookmarks, etc.

But, I'll hope that something comes along, someday...

Well, I can print a page for about a half a cent and in about 5 seconds. So, 1000 pp for about $5 and 2 hours? The fact that I *haven't* printed a catalog suggests that it's worth less than that to me.

I think Allied Electronics still has a print catalog:

Terrific. I just ordered one. Hope the catalog is a informative as the Digikey publication was. Thank you.

DigiKey has such a superlative search engine that I never feel the need for a catalog. For the last several years that I was getting the DigiKey catalog, I never looked inside.

Yup, I miss it too. But, the online search is REALLY good, the best of all the other outfits. I guess I'd rather they put their effort into the online search, and keep it amazingly effective.

Jon

yeh about they only thing I sometimes use a catalog for is, mechanical stuf f like connectors, boxes, switches

-Lasse

I don't agree. If you know almost exactly what you need, it's fine. But if you know only generally, or if you want to explore competing companies, etc., it's problematic. I found useful their complete downloadable catalog, not printed, but browseable page-by-page, all the same. The latest version I have saved in my computer is 2011 - this was 2896 pages long, and took up 143 MB. You could start with a particular product, and explore from there by flipping pages.

I wonder if they created and made available one newer than 2011.

The guys at the office use them. Primarily to raise their monitors to s comfortable level.

Cheers

You raise good point. To me, there *is* more information in hardcopy than screen image.

Why? Something about more information when trying to remember an article/information. I remember where in the book, I saw it, where on the page, and to some degree, what I was doing and where I was at the time I saw it. The screen? no idea, just remember I saw it, no idea what folder it's in, etc etc.

Like the subtle difference between a color photo and a black and white photo, just more information.

Not sure it's more, just different. When I pick up a new part, I put a copy of the datasheet's PDF in a folder and print a copy for the project binder. The printed copy is easier to read, make notes, and digest (it's also portable) but the PDF copy is searchable.

That's certainly a personal thing but electronic copies are (usually) easily searchable.

Subtle? B&W photographs rely on contrast and texture where color, well, relies on color to be interesting. I don't find that subtle at all.

Check! I miss those printed catalogs, both DigiKey and Mouser. I call and ask for a recent catalog even offering to pay, and they do not complain, but make noises like "OK". But do no get a catalog. Due to size, they are costly to print and then to ship. But if you can talk them to offer them at a price, GO for it!

But who orders from them, when what one needs is available from Mouser or DigiKey?

If only that were the whole story! For several years, their catalog had all the (for instance) diodes grouped according to supplier, so there was a span from page 1273 (Panasonic fast recovery rectifiers) to page 1443 (Vishay/General Semiconductor fast rectifier) that had the info you wanted. That's in the US2011 catalog.

No one wants to flip through 170 pages hunting for a candidate part. If you didn't find what you wanted, it was at the end of a LONG boring search that the realization hit.