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Name: Rod S.
Date: August 8, 2004 at 23:05:58 Pacific
Subject: DOS and HP Scanners
OS: W95 in pure DOS
CPU/Ram: Pentium/32M
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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?

So - there we go - DOS and scanners: How to do?

Rod S.


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Response Number 1
Name: 4004
Date: August 11, 2004 at 11:08:15 Pacific
Subject: DOS and HP Scanners
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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
Subject: DOS and HP Scanners
Reply: (edit)

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.


Rod S.


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