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DOS and HP Scanners
Name: Rod S. Date: August 8, 2004 at 23:05:58 Pacific OS: W95 in pure DOS CPU/Ram: Pentium/32M
Comment:
First of all, a big thank you to MaxMaxUSB and others who posted such useful stuff on USB and DOS. They've spent a lot of time and effort. Much appreciated.
Next, does anyone have ideas how to go about hooking up a SCSI linked HP scanner in DOS? Can anything be squeezed out of HP's scanner software CDs? Drivers? Software?
I've seen some old postings, but no responses. Did I miss them?
Name: 4004 Date: August 11, 2004 at 11:08:15 Pacific
Reply:
Colour Scanners require TWAIN drivers which have only been written for W3.x/NT4 and later.
Early Black & White scanners had DOS drivers but were attached to a dedicated ISA Card, but are not easy to source second-user.
Maybe you could write an interface driver as SCSI cards have good support under DOS??
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Response Number 2
Name: Rod S. Date: August 12, 2004 at 02:51:57 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for info 4004, even if it was negative. I'll look for the B & W drivers, but it'll need software too, to handle control codes, etc. I think it's beyond me to write driver.
But I'm sure someone, somewhere, knows how to fix up scanner.
Note to anyone else who has idea: I'll be in the bush (Sikkim) for the next two/three weeks - probably won't be able to respond. Meanwhile, thanks for any ideas.
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