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From: aflundi@sargon.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP Scanner
Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:20:48 GMT
Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM
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Message-ID: <526nug$ba4@news.sandia.gov>
References: <Dy5CwM.8Go@sapphire.alisa.org> <525fq1$1b8@klemm.gtn.com>
Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
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In article <525fq1$1b8@klemm.gtn.com>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> wrote:
>In article <Dy5CwM.8Go@sapphire.alisa.org>,
>	wjjr@sapphire.alisa.org (John J. Rushford) writes:
>> 
>> I've got an HP 4P scanner, SCSI interface, that I'd like to use on a FreeBSD
>> system.  Is there a package/driver for FreeBSD?
>
>Look into the ports collection.
>graphics/hpscan
>
>DESCR:
>This is a HP SCSI scanner driver which uses the FreeBSD 'pt' (Processor
>Type) driver.  It has been tested on the HP ScanJet 3C and 4A, and was
>written for the HP ScanJet IIcx, so I suspect it will work with all newer
>HP scanners without modifications.
>[...]

If you try this, would you please post your
results?  I'll bet many would be interested
to know how the 4P stacks up. (I certainly
would!)










--alan
-- 
Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>