[alt-photo] Re: scanner woes

[EJ Photo]

Dianna, I use Silverfast, Epson, VueScan and Nikon Scan with an Epson 3200,
V750, and Nikon 9000 in various combinations due to license fees. I work on
PCs but also have a Mac ( lowly little Macbook that I use for some support
running Lion).  The big advantage goes to flexibility of Vue Scan in that
the one but in lets you use it on ANY SUPPORTED scanner. The Silverfast
option is per scanner. So for folks like me, it is great to have one back up
answer , Vue Scan, that works. 

The sad reality of software is that old perfectly OK, I won't use the word
good here, fall out of support.  

Eric Neilsen
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
 
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Ryuji Suzuki
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 5:48 PM
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Subject: [alt-photo] Re: scanner woes

Mark,

Have you tried that?

My understanding is that, even the latest update version of Snow Leopard
lacks 
proper drivers and configuration profile for the latest hardware that was 
released after Lion came out. The current MacPro, iMac and Macbook Pro's
predate 
Lion, so external hard drive approach might work. Current Mac Mini and
Macbook 
Air were released with Lion, and they are known to be problematic to install

Snow Leopard (the installer packages are not the latest update, which is one

part of the problems) and to make work at full performance under Snow
Leopard 
(due to lack of proper hardware configuration data in the OS), even if the 
installation is done with another (slightly older) computer.

Tablet operation is wonderful when sitting in trains or on toilets, but I'd 
rather not bring it to my desktop environment (at least not as implemented
in 
Lion). I've been using MacOS only since Tiger but this is the first time I
felt 
they made it worse.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)




Nelson Mark wrote:

> One thing you might consider with your iMac is to set up a boot drive with
Snow Leopard.  I've done this with my Lion OS computer when I need to run
any Legacy software and it works just fine.  If you are doing 8 x 10 and get
a new Epson scanner, get the one where you can wet mount so you can avoid
Newton Rings in your scans.
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