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UMAX scanner driver and OSX
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Charlotte, NC
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how the heck am i supposed to scan anything in osx with a umax scanner. i know of that vuescan, but it don't work with my scanner. anyone know of an alternative?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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Originally posted by mattsliva:
how the heck am i supposed to scan anything in osx with a umax scanner. i know of that vuescan, but it don't work with my scanner. anyone know of an alternative?
No. UMAX sucks...I have to boot into OS 9 to use my Astra 2200.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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I called UMAX about this and they have no plans to support OS X on their older scanners or new consumer scanners. I will be buyng an Epson 1250 soon.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: London, UK
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I have a Umax 1220U and wrote to the author of VueScan who told me the early Umax USB scanners have internal parallel or serial to USB converters, and they use a very weird instruction set.
So no OS X support. Ever. Sigh.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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FWIW, I've actually been able to use my Astra 3450 with VistaScan 3.7.5 from within Classic. Also, despite what they'd said before, Hamrick Software did add support for some USB UMAX scanners. So maybe there is still hope.
I'm sure Epson and Canon are just happy as peas in a pod over UMAX's lousy support. Certainly UMAX has lost a customer in me.
tooki
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