On Feb 26, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote:
I downloaded the "latest" software from HP, for this scanner.
PrecisionScan 3.3. Seems to work well, very fast, etc. BUT the
daemon that watches the buttons on scanner's front panel has a BAD
memory leak. It sits there chewing up memory until the VM size
grows to about 1.5 GB, then it takes the Mac to its knees, then the
whole system freezes.
Googled around, saw this is a known problem - soln is to kill that
daemon. But that leaves the scanner's front panel unusable.
I also have other HP scanners, different models but mostly of the
same time frame, that I need to get working.
Is there a version of PrecisionScan, newer than 3.3, that supports
these older scanners, but doesn't come with the handy dandy
hemorrhage? Been googling around, and perusing hp's site, but so
far found nada.
I've looked and looked without result too.
In my case they just went and bought a newer scanner for the Macs
and relegated the HP to a PeeCee, but my next choice was to write a
little daemon myself that 'kill -HUP' ed the HP daemon on a regular
basis.
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
After having numerous problems with an HP Photosmart 2610 /scan/copy/
fax/print with photo card plug in's, and some 4 months spent searching
the HP website, found these rules buried deep in literature. (computer
is a DPG5 1.8, jun 04, 4gigs ram, with a 4 person family having thier
own log ins)
1. Must be plugged to a computer to do more than print. no network
multifunction.
2. Doesn't work well a family (shared) printer on a family computer,
except for printing. (This seems to be solved on upgrade to 10.4-now
works across everyone log ins)
3. Have an "hp monitor trap" on the login page that seems to help.
4. HP Device Manager on my dock seems to handle the work.
5. Still using READ IRIS 9 for OCR work.
Bequette Jeff
[email protected]
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