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Destroying UMAX Scanners
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That was a waste of bandwidth.
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Well, I enjoyed the brief glimpse of the "media" person. 
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Why won't UMAX stick a guy in a room, pay him some money, and port the drivers for these scanners to Mac OS X?
Is it still so difficult to create drivers for Mac OS X?
And can Mac OS X interface with SCSI devices? Or is my UMAX Astra 1200s totally out of luck?
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tell me someone lost an eye 
tell "media girl" to make her own movie
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wow. im sure a school somewhere couldnt have used that scanner.
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Does Cliff Yablonski accept movies too? I want to recommend him this one  I hate nerds.
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I thought it was pretty funny. I have to laugh too because the graphics job that fired me a few months ago only had UMAX scanners. Very expensive ones also. They were "looking into" going to OSX full-time when I got the can.
But seriously, how hard is it to make drivers for OSX? Any company that manufactures scanners has to realize that the Mac is still the platform of choice for most graphics pro's. A high-end scanner is generally a graphics tool. The low end crap is for scanning pics of your dog or whatever.
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Originally posted by scaught:
wow. im sure a school somewhere couldnt have used that scanner.
Schools don't want your old crap. They need new hardware and up to date software.
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I own three old UMAX scanners. They have all died of natural causes long before they should have. None of them even lasted 2 years. I haven't put them in the dupster yet, because I'm lazy, but that movie is giving me ideas...
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Originally posted by scaught:
wow. im sure a school somewhere couldnt have used that scanner.
what I was thinking
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Well look at the dudes in that movie, their appearances all suck, because of their geekiness . Why not a countermovie of starving or football sewing children mirroring the wasting of a petty UMAX scanner that didn't have the appropriate drivers
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I HATE UMAX SCANNERS!!!!!
Burn them, yeah!
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Read the sig... EPSON = scanners ! Umax = pain in the a$$
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Originally posted by Timo:
what I was thinking
Believe it or not, quite a few schools (both of my kid's schools for sure) have their Mac labs running OS X now.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Originally posted by funkboy:
Why won't UMAX stick a guy in a room, pay him some money, and port the drivers for these scanners to Mac OS X?
Is it still so difficult to create drivers for Mac OS X?
And can Mac OS X interface with SCSI devices? Or is my UMAX Astra 1200s totally out of luck?
i wish Canon would do the same, they seem to have a very strange view on driver support for X. They either do, or they don't.
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A Jew with a view.
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Originally posted by RAzaRazor:
That was a waste of bandwidth.
Ditto! And can we all please band together and stop the use of Comic Sans!
�Shhesh
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Originally posted by chris v:
Believe it or not, quite a few schools (both of my kid's schools for sure) have their Mac labs running OS X now.
CV
Sure. Fine. But the point is that the scanners could have gone to use somewhere, even in a (gasp) non OS X installation.
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Originally posted by funkboy:
Why won't UMAX stick a guy in a room, pay him some money, and port the drivers for these scanners to Mac OS X?
Is it still so difficult to create drivers for Mac OS X?
And can Mac OS X interface with SCSI devices? Or is my UMAX Astra 1200s totally out of luck?
My 1200s is working fine on OSX. I'm using VueScan. No problems at all. Plus VueScan is updated quite often.
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Originally posted by mydog8mymac:
Ditto! And can we all please band together and stop the use of Comic Sans!
�Shhesh
Oh God, YES! Comic Sans is the font of the devil. It's only used by people who have no business usng fonts in the first place. Mistral needs to die a painful death as well.
And did they really need a 4 second pause every 6 seconds so they could fade their text in and out?
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Originally posted by Timo:
Sure. Fine. But the point is that the scanners could have gone to use somewhere, even in a (gasp) non OS X installation.
Had Umax told me my scanner was going to be a very expensive paperweight with OSX, I would have gladly donated all that money to charity.
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Umax does have OSX drivers, try the GB site.
Not to mention SilverFast will run them just fine.
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Ewwww, don't touch it. Here,
poke at it with this stick.
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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Umax does have OSX drivers, try the GB site.
Not to mention SilverFast will run them just fine.
Last I saw the drivers they have are only for the high end scanners...?
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Originally posted by Timo:
Sure. Fine. But the point is that the scanners could have gone to use somewhere, even in a (gasp) non OS X installation.
ya. we could have sent it to cipher13.
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Originally posted by mydog8mymac:
Ditto! And can we all please band together and stop the use of Comic Sans!
�Shhesh
Can't help you there-- I'm still busy rooting out the last pockets of Remedy Double Extras users. After that, I've got to get straightaway on destroying all traces of Brush Script.
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u kno i'd be interested if anyone woud post inks to any kind of driver/vuescan site that dealt w/ compatibility w/ my 1220u.
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Originally posted by Timo:
Sure. Fine. But the point is that the scanners could have gone to use somewhere, even in a (gasp) non OS X installation.
How is this any different than making a Macquarium? If you purchase something, you have the right to do whatever the hell you want with it (barring anything illegal of course).
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You wanna know how to actually break a UMAX scanner? Just use it more than three times...
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Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
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