primax: Specs for Primax scanner
Subject:
Re: Specs for Primax scanner
From:
CP Hennessy ####@####.####
Date:
10 May 1999 14:27:03 -0000
Message-Id: <3736EC77.FA27F0B4@alcatel.es>
Hi all,
If the choices Primax are going to give us are too restrictive, then we can
continue as Christian and Marco have been doing ( which is I understand quite
difficult ).
If this is too difficult/slow then there is another possibility for us to
"catch" the protocol used between the PC and the scanner - basically trying
to catch it after it has exited the parallel port :
by either setting up a parallel port on another PC to act as if it
were a peripheral - but I have been told that this is quite
difficult; or
putting another piece of hardware between the PC and the scanner
which captures messages. I have no experience in the electronics
needed to do this but I have come accross some web pages describing
a reasonably cheap way to do this ( about $20 ):
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/kheidens/lptcap/lptcap.htm
Any other suggestions ?
CP
