"E. van Ginkel" wrote: > > It's a nice cheap scanner with a solid feel to it. I have one and the scans > look nice, but there is one major drawback. It slow beyond belief. > Its a parrallelport scanner and it takes about 11 minutes to make an scan on > its highest (1770dpi) resolution. The software is not all that bad maybe a > bit too Windows 3.1-ish. The PC the scanner is connected to is a 1GHz AMD > Thunderbird with 512mb of memory, so thats is not the one which slows it > down. >
Some years ago I had the chance to try one of these scanners and it didn't scan so slowly. Perhaps you should check the configuration of your computer BIOS, and see if you have configured your parallel port as "compatible" (i.e. slow unidirectional mode). In that case, you should change the PC parallel port mode to "ECP", this is the bidirectional mode, much faster, which uses a DMA (direct memory access) channel, usually DMA channel 3 or 1, to speed up the access to the devices you connect to such port. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zaragoza (Aragon) - Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
