Is it possible to network a scanner 1

[treestump]

Hi All
Does anyone know whether it is possible to network a scanner?
Thanks in Advance
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[SESaskDFC]

No.. To the best of my knowledge, scanner networking is not an option at the moment !!

Murray

 

[chaosinc]

why would you want to network a scanner?
especialy since the remote user would have to goto the scanner to use it anyhow...
you can always scan and send the scan to the other machine over a network. but not network the scanner itself. knoweldge is power, spread the power

 

[treestump]

I didn't think that it was possible. However, our company created a super IT boss position and it was his idea. Suffice it to say that we disagree a lot but it's hard to do anything when he's the older brother of the Executive VP
Thanks
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[John Lewis]

It is possible . . . but expensive (at least on my budget). Generally, the applications that can use the scanner are limited, and it really is more of a PITA than it is worth. HP used to have one . . . (Scanjet 5 something something), might still have something, haven't looked for a while.

Xerox still has something that they push with their document imaging, but I'm not sure if it will do anything else. Plan on getting at least half way to six figures that direction (software, scanner, doc server).

Actually, you might want to price the Xerox deal . . . might calm Exec VP Brother.

 

[KLewisBPM]

The only way you can network a scanner is if you purchase one that has the necessary software. I tried this before and ending phoning HP they told me the price of their network scanner. (no thanks LOL)

Kind Regards

Kelley Lewis

 

[pelsish]

I believe there are scanners that advertise LAN connectivity as part of their software capability. I seem to recall that the Microtek 6700 (or thereabouts) claims this performance.

 

[orejas]

I just bought an HP 6200C scanner for $15 used that has software for network connectivity. All you have to do is hook it up to a host and install the software on the clients. Haven't tried networking it.
This scanner is scsi and usb

 

[achief]

I spotted a page on networking scanners on UMAX support site (URL may be word-wrapped):

http://www.umax.com/support/knowled...rea01=MN&compare01=C&SRCHkeywords=Astra+2000P

Haven't tried it myself. Good luck.

 

[chaosinc]

i am still curious as to the purpose of networking a scanner? knoweldge is power, spread the power

 

[mudskipper]

Actually, chaosinc, there are times when this would be nice. Let's just imagine for a minute that two people who sit next to each other both want to use the scanner at any given time. Rather than buy 2 scanners, you just set it up on the network. Now, you have the added bonus of not having to have one person stop thier work just to scan something in for the other guy.... Let your mind wander, and I'm sure you could come up with other scenarios that would warrant this kind of setup.

Of course, it could just be that using the copy machine to moon somebody has lost the appeal. Now you can call up that annoying guy from marketing and say, "yeah--I just recieved something that you should take a look at. Just hit the scan button on your desktop."

;-) Mudskipper
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[BFOJ]

We use HP's OfficeJet G95 which has network scanning capabilities. This allows us to share this resource and you can scan at the OfficeJet and select which PC you want to send the output to. Of course, the receiving PC's need to have the software installed. I've just been disappointed that high-end Scanning software, such as OmniPage doesn't work with networked scanners. We have to use the OfficeJet software which doesn't provide as high as resolution.