Sharing Scanner?

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Peter;

Sadly , with 99.99% of consumer scanners, you cannot share them on a
network I know that Xerox and Canon make network scanners, but they are
terribly expensive.
If you watch the Sunday ads, you can get a reasonably good scanner for
less than $50....cheap enough to have one for each machine. I recently got
an HP scanner on sale for $49.99 with a $30.00 mail in rebate...net cost was
$19.99 for an 8x10 flatbed.

Bobby

"Peter G" <peter@ducknospam.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Minolta SCSI film scanner working well through Twain/Photoshop on
> an XP machine - any ideas (or is possible?) on how to "share" a scanner on
> other XP machines on small network?
> Thanks
>
>

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Actually it makes no sense to do so, if you consider the process (walking to
the scanner to insert the originals, walking back to your computer to issue
the scan commands, returning to the scanner to pick up the originals, and
then walking back to your computer to complete the task or to start a new
task). It is just as efficient, and simpler, to have a computer dedicated to
the scanner - and use file sharing to allow other computers to have access
to the scanned images.

"Peter G" <peter@ducknospam.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Minolta SCSI film scanner working well through Twain/Photoshop on
> an XP machine - any ideas (or is possible?) on how to "share" a scanner on
> other XP machines on small network?
> Thanks
>
>

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>-----Original Message-----
>Actually it makes no sense to do so, if you consider the
process (walking to
>the scanner to insert the originals, walking back to your
computer to issue
>the scan commands, returning to the scanner to pick up
the originals, and
>then walking back to your computer to complete the task
or to start a new
>task). It is just as efficient, and simpler, to have a
computer dedicated to
>the scanner - and use file sharing to allow other
computers to have access
>to the scanned images.
>

Why not try something new and different, like thinking
before posting? A "small network" might consist of two
computers three feet and users three feet apart.

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"Wislu Plethora" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Why not try something new and different, like thinking
> before posting? A "small network" might consist of two
> computers three feet and users three feet apart.

In which case you can ask the other user to take your document, place it in
the scanner, scan it and you can then retrieve said scanned document's file
over the network!
--
Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com