I am trying to resurrect an old Umax 1220P scanner on W2000 and/or
WXP.

No drivers for W2000 or WXP that I downloaded from driverguide would
work.

Does anyone happen to be using this scanner in either scenario? If
so, where did you get the drivers?

Thanks

"geezer" <wee@willy.com> wrote in message
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I had one of those scanners
and tried everything i could to get it working in XP...
but to no avail...
you might as well just get a new scanner

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:17:44 -0600, "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote:


Oh - I do have a newer scanner. Its just that this old scanner was
sitting in the closet and I thought I might pass it on to someone.
Don't think so.

Thanks for response.

"geezer" <wee@willy.com> wrote in message
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oh just give it to someone using windows98 ( or win95 or winME)
plently of people still use those operating systems...
that's what i did with mine!

"geezer" <wee@willy.com> wrote in message
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Windows 2000 and XPs much improved security and robustness over earlier OSs,
using parallel ports as input connectors doesn't work hence parallel port
scanners are generally unreliable under these OSs at best and at worst they
just wont work at all. The best bet is as someone else suggested - give it
to someone using an older OS.

Paul