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Good on Windows 98 but less good on Windows 2000.
Review of HP ScanJet 4200C by dvdlcs

Advantages: Quick (on Windows 98 at least). Good quality scans.
Disadvantages: Windows 2000 (lack of) support. No power switch.

...it (or at least a HP device) when they wanted to purchase a scanner some years before that. First thing I noticed was that the driver CD contained Windows 98 drivers only. This was fine when I initially acquired the scanner as I had a Win98 machine to attach it to and everything integrated well and it worked without any problems. Then I updated to Windows 2000. The ’98 drivers were no good so I assumed it would be a simple case of finding the Win2K ...
...Look for sj452en.exe on the HP site (en = English, different versions are available for other languages) as that contains the drivers that are required. However, at over 30 MB it is very large archive for a device driver, particularly as it contains only English language drivers. This is because there is at least one scanning application included as well – why isn’t there a file available with just the device driver? You also need to install the ... Read review

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17.05.2007


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