[Ham-Computers] New Scanner and Printer Needed

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Phil,

I forgot to mention this.

Since I will be using the scanner to read printed text and having it spoken 
by Arkenstone Openbook Unbound, I am leary of using a 
scanner/printer/copier/fax machine. It might not matter, but I hate to take 
a chance. After all, all I truly need is the scanner and color printer.

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip (KO6BB)" <ko6bb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] New Scanner and Printer Needed


> 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.
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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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
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>>
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