How to connect my umax scanner Super Speedy 1200 to usb port

Should be a standard USB device cable. Any half decent home electronics store sells them. The same cable is used to connect most USB printers.

That scanner is quite old now, and will require drivers for vista.. i wouldn't imagine that you could get vista drivers for it now unfortunately, which is a shame because that was a great scanner.

just out of interest, you could try googling "umax astra 2100u vista drivers" and see what comes up... i dont hold much hope though :-(

umax power look2100xl scanner printer

Mustek 1200 is an old scanner so it's normal that it hasn't usb connection. You have to buy a USB to parallel port adaptor (about 10Euros) in order to connect the scanner with your laptop. Of course you 're gonna use the power supply that you 've got with the scanner in order to power up the scanner.

Stelios.

uninstall the all scanner driver have you installed then connect the scanner to your pc and switch on the scanner and check it detecting the scanner or what ..... if its detecting install the scanner driver ( or go to control panel ..>scanner and cameras open it then click i add device and fallow the steps ) ..... if its not detecting the scanner its may have the problem with the scanner connector or may with your pc usb port ...............

you did not mention the name and model of your scanner... I hope the below link might help you...
http://en.kioskea.net/s/vista-driver-1200-ub-plus-usb-port-scanner

The 1220P (P = Parallel) does not have a USB port and Windows XP does not support it.

I believe that the HP 3200C is a very similar scanner, and the
HP parallel driver will work, try the following links:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/hp-3200c.html
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&softwareitem=sj-1436-3&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN


I think you will find that the old UMAX scanner is extremely
slow over the parallel port, and the image quality is nowhere
nearly as good as modern USB-2 scanners.

USB-2 is orders of magnitude faster than the parallel port,
and a really good scanner costs around $60 these days.

You may want to try the Canon LiDE 80: It scans pictures
and film, it's good, it's fast, it's dirt cheap and I love it.

Martin

Try a different USB port. Check if the cable works with other systems. Have you installed drivers for the USB ports?

S. Mohan

try resetting your nvram file (requires restart into command line mode) Follow the instructions on this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

I had a hellacious problem with my firewire on my previous mac with a powerlook 1100 - and NOTHING I did seemed to fix it... but this worked in a snap!