Re: Epson 1680: USB or Firewire

[Bill Boy <boy@cybertrails.com>]

both Firewire, USB 2.0 AND SCSI are faster then any scanner can scan but not
USB 1.1
here are there speeds

USB 1.1 OHCI: up to 12 Mbps
 
USB 2.0 EHCI: up to 480 Mbps
FireWire (IEEE 1394) OHCI: up to 400 Mbps
SCSI IS UP TO 160 MByte/sec

All are screaming speeds and the soft ware has a lot to do with how fast one
will
scan and the different ways a scanner works. I have a Microtek scanmaker X12
SCSI AND USB BUT NEVER EVEN CONCIDERED  USING THE USB and for a scanner that
only cost $275 I can scan
a n 8x10 at 1200 dpi into my computer in just over a min.. Amd I only did
that to see how fast it was, at 300 DPI 20-25 seconds.

   Firewire and USB are the easyest to install, by far
good luck
Bill Boy




> From: Mr645@aol.com
> Reply-To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 00:24:51 EDT
> To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Epson 1680: USB or Firewire
> 
> 
> In a message dated 5/28/02 5:31:39 PM, nickjahn@uswest.net writes:
> 
> << Will the SCSI card be better or worse than USB?
> Thanks for your advice. >>
> 
> Adding a SCSI card will speed things up by 2 to 4 times.  High res film scans
> take forever over USB.  The Adaptec 2906 works great for around $69 plus lets
> you use other SCSI devices such as CDRW's, film scanners, whatever.
> Firewire is just a tick slower then SCSI but the Firewire interface is
> expensive from Epson.
> 
> I think I saw a test that showed a 50MB scan
> 
> took 50 seconds over SCSI, 56 seconds w/ Firewire and 2:55 seconds with USB
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