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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (13956)	1/19/1998 5:28:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 97611

Off topic Yes, at the very least I should have drastically qualified my comment. I also bought a UMAX (600x1200) and the #^&%# piece of &^% was horrible in too many ways to relate. I returned it and was amused to observe three other UMAX scanner boxes in the same return line. I'm glad you have had success with your parallel scanner. For my part I just plugged my HP-5p into an existing SCSI card and was up instantly. Clearly it depends more on the scanner and less on the interface. My comment should have been "always get a good quality scanner." Not too deep an insight, huh?

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (13956)	1/19/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Dwight - Off topic* I'm looking into a scanner for my wife's machine, would prefer SCSI but she has a CPQ LCD 3000 machine, and I don't particularly feel like opening it up. I've read some good reports about the Visioneer 6000 also, it runs around 299. Have you had any printing problems since connecting your printer via the scanner's passthru? I read a post from someone (possibly Rich Weisxxxx) on this thread recently where he said they are advising customers to use a second parallel port for a PP scanner, as connecting both on one can 'blow the port'. First time I've heard of this, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks, John