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I have an older Cannon scanner that connects through a printer port.
No matter what I do, XP will not recognize it in the
Camera/Scanners section in Control Panel. Is XP simply not looking for
or expecting a scanner to be connected in this manner? The scanner does
work, but it will not allow the printer(also parallel) to be connected
via the "pass through" connection on the scanner. I think it odd that I
can't even get scanner drivers to SHOW in the "add hardware" under
Cameras/Scanners. Am I reading this limitation correctly, or is there a
way to get the scanner fully recognized in XP? ;-Deano
I have an older Cannon scanner that connects through a printer port.
No matter what I do, XP will not recognize it in the
Camera/Scanners section in Control Panel. Is XP simply not looking for
or expecting a scanner to be connected in this manner? The scanner does
work, but it will not allow the printer(also parallel) to be connected
via the "pass through" connection on the scanner. I think it odd that I
can't even get scanner drivers to SHOW in the "add hardware" under
Cameras/Scanners. Am I reading this limitation correctly, or is there a
way to get the scanner fully recognized in XP? ;-Deano