Old HP scanner

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Mon Feb 11 16:45:32 2002

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Don Maslin wrote:
> > John, both the Scanjet and the Scanjet Plus used a HP proprietary
> > interface. The card for the Plus is reputed to work for both the
> > original and the Plus. The reverse is not true. In both cases,
> > however, it is definitely NOT parallel port.
>
> Q: Would they be damaged when prople plug them into a
> "centronics" parallel port?
> Or into a DB25 SCSI connector?

Well, I've seen a few parallel ports that lost their magic smoke after an
external SCSI zip drive was plugged into them. I'd have to say it at least
isn't safe to mix up parallel and scsi ports...

The old 3-pass HP scanners I have each have a 50 pin Amphenol connector
and a 25 pin D-Sub connector. They are both scsi, and you connect a
terminator to whichever one you don't use.

One of the old HP scanners I have seems to have optics problems and won't
pass its built-in startup diagnostics. Anyone have any hints as to what
might be wrong with it?

-Toth
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 16:45:32 GMT