I also think it is a software problem.  What operating system do you have
and what software are you using to scan?   Both of these are critical to
determining if a scanner will work.  Windows 95 OSR2 will not work reliably
with most USB scanners.  I would try another scanning program first to see
if the scanner will work in other applications.  You can download and
install Irfanview for free since it has scanning capabilities.

I think that you will have even more problems trying to use a parallel port
scanner and most SCSI scanners are generally more expensive.

Doug

At 4/5/2002 11:25 AM, Peter Shkabara wrote:

>This sounds like a software problem to me. If the scanner works
>initially but you can't run the software a second time, it would seem
>that the software did not unload when you were through. What operating
>system are you running?

>-----Original Message-----
>The scanner works until I exit the program but then I can't reopen the
>program and get messages like:  "Scanwiz5 is already running", "can't
>find scanner...use SCSI probe".  If I reboot, then I can get back into
>the scanning program until I exit again.

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