Re: HP ScanJet 4200C problems under Win2K

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From: Andy Mabbett
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:13

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In message <DUwvviA$mtQ9Ewcm@cscc.demon.co.uk>, David Pearson
<dpearson@cscc.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Why is this so bloody difficult?? :-(
>
>I fear I've no easy or quick solutions

I've been reaching that conclusion :-(

>Is yours a clean install or an "overwrite and upgrade"?

Clean.

> And as far as the scanner is concerned, what connection - parallel?

USB

>Frankly, I personally think the driver software for the (older) HP
>scanners I've used is just pants - it's nasty to use (bit like
>Micro$oft, if you want to do what they want you to do it works, if you
>want to do something else it's either difficult, long-winded, laborious
>or just plain impossible) and horrible to install!

Yup :-(

>Let us have some more details

I have some advice from HP, which has resulted in a further problem; I
won't know if the former works until I've resolved the latter.

I've started another thread about that...

-- 
Andy Mabbett
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From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4200C problems under Win2K
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