sharing scanner

Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
together via XP HOme?
tia

From: "Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs networked
| together via XP HOme?
| tia
|

Forget about the whole idea !

While it may be possible under certain circumstances, it is buggy, problemsome, difficult
and not worth the effort.

For example; such copier+printer+scanner devices such as the Xerox 432st can be used as a
network scanner but you have to scan a document and then document is sent via email to the
user. The interface sucks and it is very expensive.

Another example is using such printer+scanners as the HP 1100A and 1200A used in conjunction
with certain models of the HP external JetDirect print servers. Then these scanners can
scan a document and be retrieved but it is totally kludgey { sp ? if it is a word }.

With Today's prices on USB scanners and TWAIN compliance, you will get the best capabilities
and performance with a scanner on each PC. That is your *best* answer and my experienced
advice.

--
Dave
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David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to sahre a scanner on two home PCs
> > networked together via XP HOme?
> > tia
> >
>
> Forget about the whole idea !
>
> While it may be possible under certain circumstances, it is
> buggy,
> problemsome, difficult and not worth the effort.
>
> For example; such copier+printer+scanner devices such as the
> Xerox
> 432st can be used as a network scanner but you have to scan a
> document and then document is sent via email to the user. The
> interface sucks and it is very expensive.
>
> Another example is using such printer+scanners as the HP 1100A
> and
> 1200A used in conjunction with certain models of the HP
> external
> JetDirect print servers. Then these scanners can scan a
> document
> and be retrieved but it is totally kludgey { sp ? if it is a
> word
> }.
>
> With Today's prices on USB scanners and TWAIN compliance, you
> will
> get the best capabilities and performance with a scanner on
> each
> PC. That is your *best* answer and my experienced advice.

Kludgey also spelled klugey is a word.

We only have one scanner in between our two computers and we just
swap the USB cable to the computer that needs to scan something.
The scanner software is installed on both of course.

--


Travis in Shoreline Washington

From: "Travis" <(E-Mail Removed)>


|
| Kludgey also spelled klugey is a word.
|
| We only have one scanner in between our two computers and we just
| swap the USB cable to the computer that needs to scan something.
| The scanner software is installed on both of course.
|
| --
|
| Travis in Shoreline Washington


It's pretty easy with USB. I have used many types of scanners. Mostly SCSI but some were
parallel port based. USB makes the work easy and relatively quick.

One problem with scanning over a LAN is that you have to go back and forth between the PC
and the scanner. With the scanner on the PC, you get quick feedback and no walking back and
forth.

Getting back to a system like the Xerox 432st.
Here you have to uses LDAP for an addressbook of users. You supply it with the POP3/SMTP
email server and when you scan a document you select the format and scan the paper on the
glass. Then the document is emailed back to your account. Some scans can be very large and
email is NOT a good way to go about that and it makes it difficult for an office that uses
MS Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino as the email system. Not a system for a home user and not
a great solution for the enterprise either.

The use of a HP scanner+printer and external HP JetDirect Print Servers are more apropos for
the home but you don't get TWAIN compliance and an easy scan to file format capability nor
scan directly into a document capability. It just isn't worth the effort even though HP
makes it possible.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm