Is this a new, recent problem, or has the scanner always taken this long to
scan stuff?  I have an Epson at work that takes forever, though thankfully
not that long.  One thing you can try, sometimes works with HP scanners, is
to change the scanning contrast from automatic to normal.  That may chop the
time in half.  But some scanners are just plain slow, and it could have
something to do with your OS as well.  I'm not enough of a geek to know.  No
insult meant to the geeks out there, I'm just not cool enough to claim that
title.  Hope this helped somewhat.
Catherine armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doreen Yale" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: SCANNER QUESTION


> Evening everybody:
> I have an ongoing scanner problem whereby each page I scan is taking
> approximately four minutes to scan.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled
the
> scanning software on several occasions but this does not appear to make
any
> difference.
> I am using the Hewlett Packard 6200C scanner, running on windows 98 s.e
> platform and using Open Book 4 as my screen reader.
> Can anyone suggest anything I might try to determine whether the scanner
is
> worth using or not.  It is close to five years old, has a document feeder
> (which incidentally has always proved problematic).
> Any thoughts would be most helpful.
> Regards:
> DOREEN YALE.
>
>
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