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From: Dr Geoff Hone on 23 Feb 2010 05:09 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:42:33 +0100, nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote: SNIP >> It's an Epson Perfection 1200U. >> >> You tell me - is it `good enough'? > >No. It's obsolete junk from the stone age. > SNIP So I suppose that this makes my Epson Perfection 610 a product from the Jurassic Period? Yes, I know it's old, but it is my spare one. And, it does have one nice feature in its Windoze Driver Set: I can pop three old photos in, go for a scan, and get three files out. Saves a lot of faffing about in Photoshop. Good enough for me. As for Canon scanners, when I got a nice new LIDE 200, I only installed it on a Windoze machine. Nice scanner, shame about the software, but when you get used to it, it works. However, when *Importing* direct into Photoshop, I find I have a choice of two - yes two - Twain channels in. Trial and error established that if I picked the bottom one on the list, everything worked OK. Good enough for me (again). Geoff
From: Martin S Taylor on 23 Feb 2010 06:18 J. J. Lodder wrote >> Image Capture with my scanner doesn't seem to have all the options - for >> controlling the scanner - that the Canon software does. >> >> The Canon software is truly horrible to use, but at least it can do >> things usefully, like save each negative as a separate file. > > That's what the reviews say: a great scanner, > hampered by awful software. I haven't used any Canon software for scanning. I don't even think any was supplied. Image Capture does it all for me, and perfectly well. MST
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 07:02 Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > >I've STFW and it's bewildering - anyone got any suggestions on a scanner > >with half-decent scanning software included, 4800 dpi (ish), and a USB 2 > >and/or FW/FW800 interface? All to connect to an Intel Core2Duo Mac > >running 10.6.2 (and above, as and when it arrives)? > > I have a Canon multifunction that I'm quite happy with. It's > surprising how handy it is to be able to photocopy things. Righto - ta. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 07:02 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: [snip] > I'm also rather impressed that the Airport Extreme wakes up the Mac > the printer is plugged into in order to queue up prints (and > advertises the printer's existence over bonjour on behalf of the > sleepy Mac) - it's a pity there's no mechanism to power on the printer > too! My printer wakes up when anything wants to print to it. The thing uses less than 1W in standby mode, and wakes up when the Ethernet bell rings. Ditto what I had in the System 7 days, but hanging off the home LocalTalk network. Networked printers, that's the way to do it. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Feb 2010 07:02
Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam(a)talktalk.net> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Well, no it doesn't. No UI, no nothing. The only response I've ever > > > had from GraphicConverter when trying to TWAIN acquire - is crashing. > > > > Any TWAIN-compatible one, which they all are nowadays. > > Yes, but there may not be a TWAIN driver (is that the right word?) that > works with 10.6.2. It didn't work with 10.4.anything on my PPC Macs. Nor with 10.6.anything on my Intel Macs. Just no bloody use, this TWAIN lark. I've tried it with other scanners and Macs - not mine. Never worked reliably - not once. > Graphic Converter worked fine with my Epson Perfection 2450 up to 10.5, > but not with 10.6 for that reason. Not here, it didn't. > Since Rowland has a scanner, and also has GC, first thing to try might > be TWAIN-SANE, as this is free. I had a lot of trouble with its earlier > versions, but the latest seems to work. TWAIN-SANE? I think I'll not bother, actually - the scanner I've got works with the Epson scanning software, but no longer even works with Image Capture (as it did yesterday). TWAIN's useless. The MacOS X Help instructions for doing a scan involve looking at the System Prefs->Print/fax pane. There's nothing there about scanners. And it's not even possible - as far as I can tell - to set up Colorsync so that it is using a profile for my input and output devices. Not that I can see - the instructions seem to be `just select the right profile for each device', but there's no obvious way actually to set profiles for devices that I can see. <shrug> None of this `image' stuff seems to work at all. It all sounds fine in the adverts, but it's all entirely non-functional in reality as far as my experience goes. But I can capture scans using the Epson software. I've no idea if I could get better scans, no idea how to get decent colour reproduction (it always fucks up the colours), but at least I can scan images. > Otherwise there is VueScan. I don't think that'd be sensible. I can't even use the basic Epson scanning software intelligently, so I don't think I'd stand a cat in hell's chance of being able to make use of my investment if I were daft enough to buy `pro' scanning software. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |