Well, there are different solutions for this,
There is a Parallel->USB converter that supposelly support most printer. Did
anyone tried this with a scanner?
That might be a way to combine USB support and parallel problems...
I've also saw that HP6200C support USB and SCSI, are the command set
compatible? the same?
I do believe that USB scanner are still scanners, and that Sane is growing
very fast, therefore supporting all kind of scanner is a plus for this
project.
Of course, in order to do that the team will certainly have to grow,
therefore instead of people trying to refrain the developpment to SCSI only
or ...
Please be objective and let Sane grow into a wider scanner support and stop
complaining about supporting only this or that.
For example Linux started with 386 only few years ago, now it support, with
helps of thousands of developper, a very wide range of hardware.
Let's do the same with Sane.
/ac
Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> davidm@mostang.com said:
> > It occurred to me that this whole boring debate about parallel-port
> > scanners and the lack of support may soon disappear as a result of USB
> > picking up in popularity. Maybe we should focus on USB support? It
> > seems to me that parallel port scanners don't work well even if they
> > are supported. The reason for this is that parallel port scanners
> > tend to waste all available CPU cycles on the scanner, effectively
> > turning your nice & fast multi-user, multi-tasking machine into a
> > crummy single-task machine. AFAIK, USB doesn't have any of these
> > problems yet is much cheaper than a SCSI interface.
>
> Indeed, while this is true, (a) USB scanners are still significantly more
> expensive than parallel port ones, (b) there are still countless thousands
> of parallel port scanners out there and (c) unless their exists some
> sort of USB scanner command set that manufactures actually stick too, are
> they any more likely to give us the protocols for USB scanners than
> parallel ones?
>
> Just my experience though, a scanner will turn any fast multi-user,
> multi-tasking machine to a single-task machine SCSI or otherwise.
>
> JAB.
>
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