Two scanners

[neil40]

Hi

I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.

I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
in one replacement (print/scan etc)

Thanks for your help

Neil

[John John (MVP)]

Of course you can, as long as you have available ports to plug the extra
printer/scanner in you can have as many of them as you want.

John

neil40 wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
> you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.
>
> I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
> in one replacement (print/scan etc)
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Neil

[Sam spade]

Good Luck with that all in one. Hope you don't have an xp media center 2005
and the all in one is an hp because it is a resource hog and the hp digital
imaging monitor is a dog. Woof foof..
"neil40" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
> you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.
>
> I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
> in one replacement (print/scan etc)
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Neil

[Lil' Dave]

"neil40" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
> you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.
>
> I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
> in one replacement (print/scan etc)
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Neil

Did it, but not in the typical way you would suspect.
HP all-in-one 750 connected to a USB 2.0 port. Second scanner is a fullbed
Mcrotek Scanmaker X12 USL connected to an external scsi port. The Microtek
also has option for USB connection. There's no conflict of scanners as each
one has specfic software for access.

--
Dave

If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.

[neil40]

On 6 Nov, 12:49, "John John (MVP)" > wrote:
> Of course you can, as long as you have available ports to plug the extra
> printer/scanner in you can have as many of them as you want.
>
> John
>
> neil40 wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
> > you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.
>
> > I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
> > in one replacement (print/scan etc)
>
> > Thanks for your help
>
> > Neil

OK, thanks
I read some articles that said XP couldn't handle 2 scanners. The
articles were quite old, so maybe this was fixed at some point?
Maybe the article got it wrong even!

[John John (MVP)]

neil40 wrote:

> On 6 Nov, 12:49, "John John (MVP)" > wrote:
>
>>Of course you can, as long as you have available ports to plug the extra
>>printer/scanner in you can have as many of them as you want.
>>
>>John
>>
>>neil40 wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>
>>>I am getting the feeling I can't do this, but can anyone confirm that
>>>you can't install 2 scanners on one PC.
>>
>>>I had a flatbed HP Scanner, and then my printer died, and got an All
>>>in one replacement (print/scan etc)
>>
>>>Thanks for your help
>>
>>>Neil
>
>
> OK, thanks
> I read some articles that said XP couldn't handle 2 scanners. The
> articles were quite old, so maybe this was fixed at some point?
> Maybe the article got it wrong even!

I think that there was an issue with the Usbscan.sys driver when XP was
first released but I do believe that the issue has been fixed since. At
that time the fix was to only plug in one USB scanner at a time, but you
could still install more than one scanner, you only had to make sure
that you booted with only one of them plugged in.

John