Re: FLUXLIST: How to work scanner

[alan bowman]

ah the joys of peripherals...pt2   the good bit is when you get your scanner finally working . you've found the light, it's on. you tried the 'test' program and the scanner made the appropriate whirring noises. you've heard the clever scanny bit inside moving. you've placed the thing to be scanned on the bit you're supposed to and you're about to take you first tentative steps into flatbed scanner territory.   then you notice a flashing light on your printer.. "but there's plenty of paper", you think to yourself you press the reset button the printer resets itself it beeps, there's a pause.     then that little light starts to flash again out of curiosity you decide to test the printer...   not a sausage just a beep and a flashing light   you then spend 1/2 an hour looking for the scanner manual you tossed so casually aside after believing that you knew it all simply by reading the first few pages whilst making a cup of coffee, changing the cd in the player and trying to catch up with the news on tv   after realising that there was in fact a reason for connecting the scanner, printer and zip drive attached to your parallel port, in the way described in the manual, and with heavy heart you begin to drag out all the furniture whilst trying to ignore that there is a dead cat behind your desk (further inspection, after a heavy bolt of static electricity has stuck it to your sweater, reveals this to only be dust and obviously someone else's hair)...   my scanner went on sick-leave recently, came back without warning, but now it doesn't whir, it makes a horrible rasping sound, creaks and groans and produces very warped 'pre-scan' images.  it scans ok, but it takes an age and the neighbours complain about the noise.   anyway, that killed a few minutes that where supposed to be dedicated to producing henry flynt's web site :-)     alan