On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:22:38AM -0500, THETechnoid_at_home.com wrote:
> This weekend I picked up an HP Scanjet IIc scsi scanner. It appears to
> work but I haven't installed it on anything as yet.
>
> Research on the web reveals this scanner to be one marketed solely for
> Macintosh computers. Another, the IIcx was marketed for PC's. Will the HP
> software for the IIcx work with the IIc?
I thought the IIc just had lower-end specs (like lower resolution,
smaller scan area, or something like that). If it's SCSI then there
is probably no harm in trying IIcx software. I think the HP scanner
protocol is somewhat similar across all their scanners.
>
> I run OS/2 on my PC, have a Vaxstation, and a Sparcstation. One of these
> three ought to run the scanner no?
Yep. SANE on the Sparc would work for sure. I imagine there should
have been an OS/2 driver too.
I have a IIcx, and use SANE on Linux. But it seems to have bad
color quality compared to when I first got it; I've been wondering
if the lamp is getting dim, and if it can be replaced. There is almost
no point in scanning color photos because they look so muddy, but it
still works well enough for black and white documents.
I also have a document feeder for a ScanJet Plus (I think); it has
a different connector than the feeder for the IIcx. I found it at
a thrift store. So if anybody here needs one it's available; and
I eventually want to get either the feeder for the IIcx or another
scanner with a document feeder. It will be a lot easier to scan
manuals and such that way. (Maybe by the time I finally find a feeder,
there will finally be decent Linux OCR software... I sure hope so.)
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