From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jul 20 3:32:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C98E51532D for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 03:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA21742; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:05:42 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199907200805.KAA21742@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Opinions on HP ScanJet 5P, please To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:05:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: FreeBSD-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990720181759.D84734@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 20, 99 06:17:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 873 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've just been offered an HP ScanJet 5P second hand for about $150. > Is this a good deal? Any war stories? not 100% sure on the model, the one i had was a SCSI model @300dpi which i thik was the ScanJet 5P but i might be wrong. When it worked it worked nice, but after 200 or so scans and 6 months of life it started a "graceful degradation" -- first lost BW at 300dpi, then 200dpi, then no more grey, then no more output in any mode, and the carriage would not stop at the end of the scan (or returning) and hit the case. It seems a very cheap design at least in the mechanical part -- there is no end sensor so if the encoder goes out of sync you are screwed and you need mainteinance. No easily available NT drivers for what matters... To summarise, i am quite disappointed with the product. I paid it new about US$200+vat a couple of years ago. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message