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Hey all:
I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge. I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and send to my pc -- Thankx in advance...Jim |
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In the Control Panel, under Admin Tools, Services, is the WIA Service set to
Automatic and started? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/Windows "Jim Hood" Jim wrote in message ... Hey all: I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge. I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and send to my pc -- Thankx in advance...Jim |
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Jim -- I was having problems with a Brother printer/scanner (DCP-7020) on
the parallel port. I gave up, deinstalled it, and reinstalled it using a USB port. No problems in the couple weeks since doing this. -- Mark Jim Hood wrote: Hey all: I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge. I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and send to my pc |
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Thankx Mark;
Unfortunatly this unit must me a little older, as it has no usb hookup, but maybe I can find a usp converter cable I'v pretty much given up on this one, but would have been nice to have that scanner option. -- Thankx in advance...Jim "Mark Jerde" wrote: Jim -- I was having problems with a Brother printer/scanner (DCP-7020) on the parallel port. I gave up, deinstalled it, and reinstalled it using a USB port. No problems in the couple weeks since doing this. -- Mark Jim Hood wrote: Hey all: I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge. I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and send to my pc |
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Jim -- You may not find this helpful but let me explain my viewpoint. ;-)
I suggest you buy a new scanner and/or scanner printer. IMO the cost is very low. If it helps your conscience find a charity who needs a printer and give it to them... ;-) My viewpoint: I started on my career in software development in 1976 as a high school senior. In my personal museum I have paper tape and punch cards as mementos of the era. I spent $214.48 on my first calculator, a HP-25C. (I have no idea why I recall the cost exactly nearly 30 years later but I do recall it.) In 1983 I bought my first PC. It was an Eagle 1610 with a 10 MB hard disk. It cost me over $4k in 1983 dollars. The question people asked me was, "Ten Megabytes? My god, what will you do with all that space?" I worked for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the early 1990's and when we needed to make CD-ROMs a person had to go to a factory in (IIRC) Virginia to have the CDs made. Over 11 years ago I bought a good personal printer, a HP-IIIP, for almost $1,000.00. I printed thousands of pages on it. It worked fine the whole time I had it and for the past 3 or 4 years it was connected to my wife's PC. She had a 1200x600 DPI USB scanner for her scanning needs. But she often sent print jobs over our home network to "my" Brother MFC-6800 because the 600DPI printing was so much better. This annoyed me as the Brother would come to life and start printing, DESTROYING my programming concentration. So when "her" HP-3P finally ran out of toner I got her the Brother DCP-7020. She uses it to print and scan and we're both happy. She gets the 600DPI resolution for scanning and printing, and "my" printer stays blissfully quiet unless I it to print. ;-) Surprisingly it didn't cost much more to get a new Brother DCP-7020 than to get another toner cartridge for the HP-3P. My experience is that when older equipment doesn't work right, it's usually cheaper and easier to get modern equipment. I hate that perfectly good, if obsolete, equipment I've owned is now in landfill, but that's the reality of the computer industry. -- Mark Jim Hood wrote: Thankx Mark; Unfortunatly this unit must me a little older, as it has no usb hookup, but maybe I can find a usp converter cable I'v pretty much given up on this one, but would have been nice to have that scanner option. Jim -- I was having problems with a Brother printer/scanner (DCP-7020) on the parallel port. I gave up, deinstalled it, and reinstalled it using a USB port. No problems in the couple weeks since doing this. -- Mark Jim Hood wrote: Hey all: I've had so much luck, solving problems on these discussion boards today, I thought I would give you all a real challenge. I have a brother 4550plus, printer, fax, scanner,copier, &pc fax machine. Its connected to my computer via a paralell port cable. I can get this machine to do everything exept scan. Brother has no add in drivers for this, and they say they are imbedded into the machine, abd xp should have no problem setting this up. I can't seem to use this function still. the machine is recognized and running on printer port LPT1. Any help opn this one would be greatly appreciated, as I have a document I would like to scan and send to my pc |
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