Boomyal
Supreme Mariner
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- Aug 16, 2003
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Anyone have a good recommendation for one? I just need a single sheet unit, not expensive sheet feeder type. The articulated lid lets you copy book pages easily.
This electronic obsolescence stuff is really galling. I have finally just detached an HP 5p scanner and have marshaled to to go to the recycler along with some old 14" crt monitors. A number of years ago, I bought a couple of different flatbed scanners that used the ??card to operate them. They were nothing but frustration so I stepped up to the more expensive HP 5p scanner. It worked well (plug and play, for sure) but then came Windows XP. No one ever wrote and drivers for that scanner to operate on HP. I bet I did not have that scanner for more than a year before it became worthless. I had been using it with Windows 2000.
Currently I have been getting by using the scanner on my Officejet 6210 printer. The problem is that it does not have an articulated lid so book pages are very hard to do. In addition it is only a 8.5 x 11".
This electronic obsolescence stuff is really galling. I have finally just detached an HP 5p scanner and have marshaled to to go to the recycler along with some old 14" crt monitors. A number of years ago, I bought a couple of different flatbed scanners that used the ??card to operate them. They were nothing but frustration so I stepped up to the more expensive HP 5p scanner. It worked well (plug and play, for sure) but then came Windows XP. No one ever wrote and drivers for that scanner to operate on HP. I bet I did not have that scanner for more than a year before it became worthless. I had been using it with Windows 2000.
Currently I have been getting by using the scanner on my Officejet 6210 printer. The problem is that it does not have an articulated lid so book pages are very hard to do. In addition it is only a 8.5 x 11".