Digital BW, The Print

Epson's response to my question was 6 pin to 4 pin. While the Firewire 
interfact may not impact the scanning speed it will impact the 
performance of other devices using the USB - including my local network 
at home. My laptop has a firewire and it seems to make sense to put the 
scanner on there and get it off my server's USB.

That was the reason for the question.

Loris Medici wrote:

>
> You may be completely right. I know nothing about Firewire. Let me
> clear it: if the six wire cable's plug has 5 corners ( like: ##> ) and
> four wire cable's plug has 4 ( like: ## ) then the plug on my scanner
> is definitely the six wire version - that's a fact (but the scanner has
> it's own power cable which is another fact). The computer side may
> differ according to one's configuration (my interface card has 3 very
> same plugs on the scanner). I think the original poster of the question
> may choose the appropiate cable inspecting his/hers computer's Firewire
> interface and using the information provided until now (if like ## then
> a 4p-6p cable else 6p-6p cable). BTW I'm using the 6p-6p cable - with
> success - for my configuration (which is another fact too).
>
> P.S. Using the Firewire interface does not affect the speed of scanning.
>
> Regards,
> Loris.