Name of network scanner (colour)

[Laurel Papworth]

What is the brand name please of a scanner that can be put on a
coax/10baseT, ethernet, windows NT/95 please? And we really really want
it to be colour.

cheers
Laurel Papworth

[ro...@iname.com]

In article <352041CF...@switchboardmail.com>,

lau...@switchboardmail.com wrote:
>
> What is the brand name please of a scanner that can be put on a
> coax/10baseT, ethernet, windows NT/95 please? And we really really want
> it to be colour.

I can think of two "network scanner" solutions, neither of which
seems ideal:

1. HP makes network scanners. A current model is the
HP Network ScanJet 5; unfortunately, not in color.
http://www.hp.com/net_scanners/product_brief_main.html

2. UMAX includes NetBIOS-level Client/Server capability
in their scanner software. So you should be able to choose
from a wide variety of UMAX color scanners; get an old PC
that's not spiffy enough to be a real workstation any more;
dedicate it to serving the scanner to the network; and call
it a color network scanner. However, I haven't seen any
success stories about this approach in dejanews.

A third solution is to just set up networked PC with attached
scanner and hard drive to hold scans until they are transferred
to their final destination. Use conventional file sharing to
access the scans on the hard drive from the ethernet. Add a
removable media device for sneakernet.

Roy

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