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This is a repost of a thread that got interrupted by the problems on the
clearnet newsgroup server, my replies were probably never seen because of
this, if they have shown up now then they would have been missed by the
relevant people.


"Dave Taylor" <> wrote in message
news:Xns977AB397DBC84daveytaynospamplshot@203.97.3 7.6...
> "old&new" <old@new> wrote in news:44061bfb$:
>
> >
> > What parallel port mode should I use when using a epson colour inkjet
> > printer or a colour scanner,
>
> Change the bios setting to ECP, it will use a DMA, and go faster, and use
> less CPU.
> You can always change back...
> Make sure the cable is good, old crap cables are crap.
> Once you have ECP going, go into device manager and tell the newly
detected
> ECP port to use an IRQ.
> You should see a dramatic performance increase.
>
> --
> Ciao, Dave

Thanks Dave, I changed to ecp+epp mode, would I be better off just choosing
ecp mode? As
for the cable I don't know how good or bad it is. I think the scan is faster
now but I am not sure and still can't do anything else on the computer while
the scan is going on.

A high quality(not 48 bit), 300dpi colour scan of a colour a4 page takes 65
seconds on my acer 310p scanner which was made in 1998 and only goes to
300dpi. I am pretty sure now that it is faster than before I
changed the port mode, thanks.