> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sangohn Christian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 September 1998 18:07
> To: Linux Config Mailing List
> Subject: Printer and scanner on onre ParPort
>
> Hello fellow Linuxers!
>
> I apologize if this isn't the right place for this question. I don't
> know a more suitable list.
>
> I intend to buy a scanner with a parallel port interface but I already
> have a HP DJ690C+
> printer which needs a bidirectional connection to the host computer)
> connected to the only
> parallel port on my machine. The reseller told most of these scanner
> equipped with an input
> and an output port so the printer can be connected to the scanner and
> the scanner to the
> host computer.
>
> My questions are:
> Do anyone have some experienced with this kind of "construction"?
> Can this disturb the bidirectional connection to the printer somehow?
> What about drivers aso? Do they still work fine?
>
> ANY help will be apreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
Hi,
About a month ago I installed a parallel port Zip drive and
using the pass through to connect to my HP DJ690C, which uses the
bi-directional parallel port. This works fine in linux and Win95, also
the diagnostics software for the printer say that the bi-directional
functionality is still working. I think that your scanner and printer
will work quite happily together as long as you do not use both at the
same time
