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Need flatbed scanner advice
I'm replacing my HP 7400c and need a good flatbed. It's needed for
family photo scanning plus document scanning. I bought an Epson V200 but I find the software is a bit too cumbersome to use compared to my old HP. I'm willing to spend a few bucks if there is anything out there that is a good general-use scanner (I can still return the Epson.) Or should I just keep my HP if I can find a way to operate it with a Mac in the future? |
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Need flatbed scanner advice
Gridley wrote:
I'm replacing my HP 7400c and need a good flatbed. It's needed for family photo scanning plus document scanning. I bought an Epson V200 but I find the software is a bit too cumbersome to use compared to my old HP. I'm willing to spend a few bucks if there is anything out there that is a good general-use scanner (I can still return the Epson.) Or should I just keep my HP if I can find a way to operate it with a Mac in the future? take a look at the trial version of VueScan at http://www.hamrick.com/ |
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Need flatbed scanner advice
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:55:44 -0500, "
wrote: Gridley wrote: I'm replacing my HP 7400c and need a good flatbed. It's needed for family photo scanning plus document scanning. I bought an Epson V200 but I find the software is a bit too cumbersome to use compared to my old HP. I'm willing to spend a few bucks if there is anything out there that is a good general-use scanner (I can still return the Epson.) Or should I just keep my HP if I can find a way to operate it with a Mac in the future? take a look at the trial version of VueScan at http://www.hamrick.com/ I use Vuescan Pro (Windows) but generally with my film scanner. Will Vuescan for Mac enable any scanner with that OS? Apparently there is no Mac driver for my HP 74000c 0r my Canon FS4000, or does that matter? |
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Need flatbed scanner advice
Gridley wrote:
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:55:44 -0500, " wrote: Gridley wrote: I'm replacing my HP 7400c and need a good flatbed. It's needed for family photo scanning plus document scanning. I bought an Epson V200 but I find the software is a bit too cumbersome to use compared to my old HP. I'm willing to spend a few bucks if there is anything out there that is a good general-use scanner (I can still return the Epson.) Or should I just keep my HP if I can find a way to operate it with a Mac in the future? take a look at the trial version of VueScan at http://www.hamrick.com/ I use Vuescan Pro (Windows) but generally with my film scanner. Will Vuescan for Mac enable any scanner with that OS? Apparently there is no Mac driver for my HP 74000c 0r my Canon FS4000, or does that matter? I believe it will also work in a similar manner with a variety of scanners under mac OS - but I don't have a mac, so can't say for sure. Download the mac trial - try it out - see what happens. Should only take 10 minutes at the most to reach a conclusion. |
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Need flatbed scanner advice
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:10:33 -0500, Gridley wrote:
I'm replacing my HP 7400c and need a good flatbed. It's needed for family photo scanning plus document scanning. I bought an Epson V200 but I find the software is a bit too cumbersome to use compared to my old HP. I'm willing to spend a few bucks if there is anything out there that is a good general-use scanner (I can still return the Epson.) Thank you to those who tried to give me advice. As is usual in these cases I found my own answer but you did contribute to the thought process that went into my decision. In the end I am keeping the Epson V200 as I found it did a slightly sharper photo scan than my ancient HP 7400c which originally cost quite a bit more than the Epson. The other consideration was useability. I have become used to the extra steps involved in doing a scan and found ways to get around having to change so many settings for different types of originals. I was also concerned about my Canon FS4000US being compatible with Macs, but there is a driver available in case I need it. Now it would be nice if the SCSI port could be changed to Firewire, but alas it can't. Or so I've been advised by Canon. |
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