[Ham-Computers] New Scanner and Printer Needed

[Philip (KO6BB)]

Duane,
To the best of my knowledge, nearly all modern printers and scanners are 
USB and it will probably be difficult to find a parallel port one.  The 
advantage of the USB is that most modern computers have a plethora of 
them (My desktop has 6 of them, 4 on the back and two on the front).  
And if that isn't enough, it's easy enough to plug a 4 port USB hub into 
a port and quickly obtain three more ports that way. Although all my 
ports aren't in use, I 'remote' one port for some remote devices like 
wireless keyboard/mouse, extra DVD burner and so forth.

Running XP you shouldn't have any problem with the machine recognizing 
your printer/scanner.  While desktop this does have a parallel port 
along with a serial port (in addition to the 6 USB and Firewire ports) I 
haven't used the parallel port at all.

You might seriously consider buying a combination scanner printer as 
there are a lot of them available in all price ranges.  Besides the 
usual scanning, printing etc, they usually have a one button "copy" 
function making them convenient for copier use.

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On 5/7/2011 2:35 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> It is past time for the old blind dude here to upgrade some computer
> equipment! I need a good color printer and a good color flatbed scanner.
>
> Since I have not been paying attention to the market, as what I had worked
> fine, I now need your suggestions as to what is good and reasonably priced.
>
> The system is a Windows XP Home Edition at 3 GHZ with slightly over 1 GHZ of
> RAM.
>
> I assume that I can plug the scanner into the parallel port of the computer
> and the printer into the back of the scanner?
>
> Any suggestions you might have for a good quality color printer and color
> scanner would be appreciated.
>
> If it matters, the color printer will be used exclusively for printing in
> color! All text will be done by reliable old HP 4P Laser printer. She is
> sixteen years old and working like she was still new!
>
> Thanks for your learned suggestions!
>
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
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>