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Hewlett-Packard (HP) developed the first ScanJet in the mid-1980s at their printer division in Boise, Idaho. [4] [5] The ScanJet was released in March 1987, [6] as a compliment to their LaserJet series, which was the first commercially successful line of laser printers ever released, [7] introduced in 1984 and also developed at Boise.
As of 2021 the supplied printer-drivers support a total of 3,088 HP printer models; [3] many of these for low-end models are free and open-source (FOSS), licensed under MIT, BSD, and GPL licenses, but others (including all color laser MFC printers on the market for years) require proprietary binary blobs ("plug-ins").
A flatbed scanner (HP ScanJet IIC) with its lid closed. A flatbed scanner is a type of scanner that provides a glass bed on which the object to be scanned lies motionless. The scanning element moves vertically from under the glass, scanning either the entirety of the platen or a predetermined portion.
PaperPort is commercial document management software published by Tungsten Automation, used for working with scanned documents.It uses a built-in optical character recognition to create files in searchable Portable Document Format (PDF); text in these files is indexed and can be searched for with appropriate software, such as Microsoft's Windows Search.
The embedded firmware of a printer could thus eliminate the need to install any driver on a computer, by accepting print data in a general purpose format (e.g. PDF) via a networking protocol. Despite some efforts to standardize various stages of the printing pipeline, printer interfaces are largely still very proprietary and manufacturer-specific.
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In Traditional Mode, HP UPD is bound to a print queue and behaves like a normal printer driver with the addition of bi-directional communications for device queries and real time print job status. This mode can be chosen during driver installation, or on the dynamic mode universal printing dialog box.
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