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From: edm@hpfcmdd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP SCANJET+ INFO WANTED
Message-ID: <84380014@hpfcmdd.hp.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:20:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.185542.10119@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division
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>Is this interface
>just a parallel port?  If it is just a parallel port, could I 
>just install some device drivers, connect to a free parallel
>port, and use PD scanner software?

I have installed two Scanjet interface cards in PCs.  While the card looks
like "just a parallel port," I believe it has at one distinguishing
charactersitic that is absolutely essential -- bidirectionality.  If you
understand what that is, you know more about it than I do.  I've discovered
the hard way that most parallel ports don't have it.  If you have a
bidirectional parallel port it would be worth a try to see if the Scanjet
would work on it.