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nemanirc · Dec 5, 2001, 12:29 PM

Mac OS X has been out for close to nine months now, and I have seen no scanner manufacturer say that they are anywhere close to releasing scanning software for OS X. This is getting ridiculous. I have a Canoscan 650 and a UMAX MX3, neither of which can be used natively in OS X. If Microsoft can rewrite the entire Office suite, why can no scanner manufacturer get OS X native drivers out the door?

zac4mac · Dec 5, 2001, 01:03 PM

try this...
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html

Z

drjoe · Dec 5, 2001, 01:53 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nemanirc:
[QB]Mac OS X has been out for close to nine months now, and I have seen no scanner manufacturer say that they are anywhere close to releasing scanning software for OS X. This is getting ridiculous.

I bought a Lexmark X83 all-in-one. Particularly with the 1.1 driver scanning works fine. Alas it disconnects if you start classic but it IS a native OSX scanner. The real question is why a nonscanner specialty vendor can solve all of the behind-the-scene problems and the umax's, et al can't seem to. But yes, the X83 scans just fine, TWAIN compliant and all.

SirCastor · Dec 9, 2001, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by nemanirc:
<STRONG>Mac OS X has been out for close to nine months now, and I have seen no scanner manufacturer say that they are anywhere close to releasing scanning software for OS X. This is getting ridiculous. I have a Canoscan 650 and a UMAX MX3, neither of which can be used natively in OS X. If Microsoft can rewrite the entire Office suite, why can no scanner manufacturer get OS X native drivers out the door?

</STRONG>

Y'know, as much as you or I don't like it, not every company is a fan of Mac OS X. I think the reason some companies are waiting around is because they either are worrisome about OS X's success, or they simply have other priorities. As well, it's apparent that There are some larger differences between 10.0 and 10.1 . So much of a difference that Office (among others) needs 10.1 to run properly. 10.1 has only been out for 2 months (yes I know developers have ealier access to beta builds) and not all manufacturers are as excited about OS X.

I know these aren't great excuses, but it's my bet that they are the most realistic ones.

Eug · Dec 9, 2001, 01:05 PM

Our Agfa has X drivers. They don't work properly though.

My Epson has drivers that work great in Classic.

oranjdisc · Dec 10, 2001, 12:29 PM

I could be wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me if most scanner manufactures were keeping an eye on Photoshop for X as their "must release drivers by..." date. Sure, you can use a scanner obviously w/out Photoshop, but scanning in Photoshop under classic works fine right now, so they aren't in too big of a hurry to get them out.

Besides, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if pre-press / printers didn't upgrade to X for a long, long time. Most I've seen still run Quark 3 with Illustrator 6 and Photoshop 5.

Mr. Blur · Dec 11, 2001, 11:31 PM

Microtek is supposedly working on drivers for native X support....
http://www.microtekusa.com/macosx.html

bluehz · Dec 12, 2001, 06:57 AM

I also highly recommend the VueScan software. Unfortunately it does not work with my old SCSI HP scanner. Funny thing is works native in OS 9.x The software is FAST and stable! I really like this scanner software - just wish I could use it in X.