8Notices

Check this chapter for system requirements, safety instructions, and other important information about your EPSON Stylus Scan 2500.

caution:

Using an improperly shielded USB cable— especially a cable more than 6.5 feet (2 meters) long—may cause the EPSON Stylus Scan to malfunction.

The EPSON Stylus Scan cannot be used with a switch box or a parallel pass-through port (for example, on a Zip drive).

Windows System Requirements

■An IBM® compatible PC with at least a 486/66 MHz processor (Pentium® processor recommended)

■Microsoft Windows 95 or 98

■At least 16MB of RAM (32MB or more recommended)

■At least 50MB of free hard disk space (100MB recommended)

■VGA or better display adapter and monitor (24-bit color recommended)

■Double-speed (2x) CD-ROM drive for installing the software (quad-speed [4x] or faster recommended)

Your system should have one of the following interfaces (USB recommended):

■An available USB port or hub connection on a computer running Windows 98 with a Windows 98 compliant USB port and a shielded USB “AB” interface cable up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) long

■An available parallel port with a high-speed, bidirectional, IEEE-1284-compliant parallel cable up to 10 feet

(3 meters) long. The cable must have a D-SUB, 25-pin, male connector for your computer and a 36-pin, Centronics® compatible connector for the EPSON Stylus Scan

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