[DeathMan]

Vuescan sees my scanner just fine. So does the apple system profiler.

I cannot scan from the photoshop plugin, i get a message saying "Cannot communicate with scanner. Cable may be disconnected. Check status. Scanner driver will be closed"

I get the same error when I try to scan from the toolbox. Anyone have this experience, or have any ideas on how to fix this?

I'd use Vuescan, but I don't have it registered, and I don't really want to spend $40 to scan a freaking napkin for my wife's wedding video.

[Peter]

What scanner is it?

[DeathMan]

Sorry, its a Cannon Lide 30. (I thought I had put that in the title, but omitted the model num. :/


And I'm running 10.2.4 on a dual 500 Mhz g4 tower AGP (sawtooth?)

Edit:
Also thought I could add some info. I've got my home dir on a different partition from my Applications dir. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it. this caused some problems with iPhoto, and a couple other apps, but deleting the prefs fixed those. I deleted photoshop prefs, but that didn't help.

[DeathMan]

So I've tried everything I can think of (throwing away preferences, reinstalling the drivers, vuescan, etc.) and it seems my best solution is to just register vuescan. It seems to be a better scanner software anyway.

I'm having a hard time accepting defeat on this one, cause usually I can get this stuff to work. I got a scsi zip drive to work with a generic scsi driver I downloaded somewhere really obscure. (that later died, so I don't use zip, which I actually prefer).

The main thing that bugs me is that this has worked before, though when I first used it, I remember it not being really easy to get it working, for some reason. I've never read that people had trouble with these scanners. Am I cursed?

Anyone have much experience using vuescan? Is it worth the money?

[aaanorton]

Originally posted by DeathMan:
Anyone have much experience using vuescan? Is it worth the money?

Yup. And yup.

[davidflas]

vuescan is worth every penny