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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2007Scanners for Mac
I am looking for a Mac OS X compatible scanner, duplex, with sheet feeder, and as compact as possible. It is going to be in an office with three secretaries, and used almost exclusively for B&W administrative archiving. I found a suitable candidate in the Canon DR-2580C, but the brochure is not very explicit about Mac support or compatibility (a contact with the local Canon representatives was answered with "due to recent changes in organisation we are unable to deal with your request", and some general Canon's URLs). Agfa does not make scanners anymore, Microtek appears to have been swallowed by Taiwan's Avision, with no local support, and Epson and HP have not answered. (We have a Canon flatbed, a CanoScan 3200F, and it has been a nightmare to install correctly in a multiuser environment. In the end, only the user that has installed the driver can use it; I assume it has to do with some file permissions, but Canon was of no help at all.) Good experiences, anybody? _x. -- Only one "o" in my e-mail address > I am looking for a Mac OS X compatible scanner, duplex, with sheet > feeder, and as compact as possible. It is going to be in an office with [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > _x. Be sure that any scanner you get will run with VueScan <http://www.hamrick.com> without having to install any software from the scanner maker. Often, if there is a change in OSX that require a fix to scanner software, the scanner maker only provides updates for scanner they are currently selling. They already have the money from owners of older scanners, so don't bother to support them. If your scanner will work with VueScan, it will still be usable since VueScan updates make all its supported scanners work with the latest OSX. The software from some scanner makers seems to break with even minor OSX update, and if they decide not to update that particular scanner's software, the scanner becomes useless if it won't work with other software. My scanner is an Agfa SnapScan e42. There have been no software updates since OSX 10.1, since Agfa abandoned the low cost scanner market, but it still works with OSX 10.4.10. If some future OSX update breaks it, I have the option of VueScan. > > I am looking for a Mac OS X compatible scanner, duplex, with sheet > > feeder, and as compact as possible. It is going to be in an office with [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > market, but it still works with OSX 10.4.10. If some future OSX update > breaks it, I have the option of VueScan. Thanks for the answer. I might get VueScan for the flatbed quite soon, as the Mac OS X 10.5 release is bound to create havoc... But VueScan is supposed to work with "flatbed and film scanners", not with the high-speed document "feed-through" scanners. And I cannot see the Canon DR-2580C mentioned for example, neither in their supported nor unsupported models list. _x. -- Only one "o" in my e-mail address >>> I am looking for a Mac OS X compatible scanner, duplex, with sheet >>> feeder, and as compact as possible. It is going to be in an office with [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > _x. VueScan will work with the Epson GT-2500 and GT-30000 scanners <http://www.epson.co.uk/products/product_hub/Product_Listing_Scanners.htm> which can handle up to 30 pages per minute. > >>> I am looking for a Mac OS X compatible scanner, duplex, with sheet > >>> feeder, and as compact as possible. It is going to be in an office with > >>> three secretaries, and used almost exclusively for B&W administrative > >>> archiving. [...] > >> Be sure that any scanner you get will run with VueScan > >> <http://www.hamrick.com> without having to install any software from > >> the scanner maker. [...] > > Thanks for the answer. I might get VueScan for the flatbed quite soon, > > as the Mac OS X 10.5 release is bound to create havoc... [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > <http://www.epson.co.uk/products/product_hub/Product_Listing_Scanners.htm> > which can handle up to 30 pages per minute. Thanks again!. I'll take a look at the GT-2500 model. _x. -- Only one "o" in my e-mail address |
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