On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
I aquired HPscanjet 9190A.
I have the flatbed scanner and the cable but, I do not know if there is
an additional interface needed for PC or? use. the cable looks like
parallel printer cable. Any info may help.
Allison, from an earlier Usenet post:
I have a Hewlett Packard Scanjet Plus without any
docs, etc.. I was able
to get very little info from the "hp" ftp site on this unit. It has what
looks like a standard parallel port 36-pin connector on it, but from what
I can tell, it is a "special" interface - NOT SCSI. I guess hp carries
It's a custom duplex centronics interface, developed by HP, and used (in
slightly different versions) only on the 9190A ScanJet and 9195A ScanJet
Plus. The ScanJet version was product number 88290A, which presumably
works only on the 9190A. The Plus card was 88295A or 88296A, and
reportedly works on both. They were developed years before
ECP/EPP/IEEE-1284, so a normal PC parallel port is no substitute. The
later ScanJets (IIc, IIcx, 2p, 3p) have a McSCSI interface.
- don