Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:35:01 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Any scanner solution ? Message-ID: <199903240535.GAA09526@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi, i am looking for some supported scanner that is available on the market. Any suggestion ? For some time i used an HP scanjet5p on a scsi port, but after a few months the scanner slowly stopped working (details at the end). i can't get another one, both because i consider this a poorly designed and overpriced unit, and because it has been discontinued in favour of parallel port/usb devices. I tried a couple of parallel port scanners (one Mustek, one Artec AS6P) but while i managed with some effort to talk to them using the ppc interface, i did not finish the work for lack of documentation and time. so... can anyone suggest anything ? thanks luigi (About the scanner problems: it was kind of a 'graceful degradation'. the scanner started occasionally misbehaving e.g. producing random patterns depending on the scan resolution, hitting the limit of the scan area without stopping the motor, etc., and the problem got worse and worse with time. since all this is done in firmware i don't think it is a problem on the outside, although i replaced cables just to be sure... opening the scanner showed that the unit has a very cheap design, e.g. with no switches to avoid that the carriage hits the case etc. -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO . EMAIL: luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione HTTP://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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