I have an old parallel port scanner I want to get rid of

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Mon Jan 20 09:08:17 EST 2003


On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The scanner is a Scanport SQ4830. I believe that the company is no
> longer in business. The scanner was working when we took it out of
> service, mainly because my wife's computer came with a USB scanner and
> PaperPort software. If anyone wants the scanner, I can get it to you
> either at Tuesday's Gentoo discussion at MIT or you can pick it up at my
> house or we can figure out another way to exchange it. I was given the
> scanner by a friend who could never get it to work. I had it working on
> Windows a few years ago after searching for the correct driver.

Incidentally, SANE supports the SQ300 and SQ2030 (parallel) and the
SQ4836 (SCSI) with the microtek-2 driver. This one is probably
supportable with minor tweaks to the driver.

-dsr-


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