I think I've probably gone through 3 cheap scanners in my time as an OS X user. Not so much that I use a scanner a lot (the one next to me hasn't been turned on in over a year)...but because the fact that many of the previous scanners would only work up until a certain version of OS X.
So tonight I desperately needed to scan something. The drivers would only run in 10.3 and below...so the answer? Boot into Windows, where the drivers for this old scanner continue to be maintained and are available for XP. Phew!
And yes, the other way to look at it is that I basically had to go back to an old OS (XP) to run an old program.
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That's one of the reasons I only use Epson gear. Epson has always had a good relationship with Macs and I've had no problems with them since day dot of me getting a Mac (around 2001). The problems I have at work with HP and Xerox are unbelievable although we got the Xerox working by installing a generic H driver. What would be nice is if there was one language for scanners that was used by everything instead of the TWAIN system that seems to be differently implemented on every scanner out there. That way you could get away with a generic driver. |
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