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<h1>Re: USB scanners?</h1>
<b>Jonathan Buzzard</b> (<a href="mailto:jab@hex.prestel.co.uk"><i>jab@hex.prestel.co.uk</i></a>)<br>
<i>Wed, 02 Dec 1998 01:02:11 +0000</i>
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<a href="mailto:davidm@mostang.com">davidm@mostang.com</a> said:<br>
<i>&gt; It occurred to me that this whole boring debate about parallel-port</i><br>
<i>&gt; scanners and the lack of support may soon disappear as a result of USB</i><br>
<i>&gt; picking up in popularity. Maybe we should focus on USB support? It</i><br>
<i>&gt; seems to me that parallel port scanners don't work well even if they</i><br>
<i>&gt; are supported. The reason for this is that parallel port scanners</i><br>
<i>&gt; tend to waste all available CPU cycles on the scanner, effectively</i><br>
<i>&gt; turning your nice &amp; fast multi-user, multi-tasking machine into a</i><br>
<i>&gt; crummy single-task machine. AFAIK, USB doesn't have any of these</i><br>
<i>&gt; problems yet is much cheaper than a SCSI interface. </i><br>
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Indeed, while this is true, (a) USB scanners are still significantly more<br>
expensive than parallel port ones, (b) there are still countless thousands<br>
of parallel port scanners out there and (c) unless their exists some<br>
sort of USB scanner command set that manufactures actually stick too, are<br>
they any more likely to give us the protocols for USB scanners than<br>
parallel ones?<br>
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Just my experience though, a scanner will turn any fast multi-user,<br>
multi-tasking machine to a single-task machine SCSI or otherwise.<br>
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JAB.<br>
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