hp would give me a a compatible scanner.
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Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 14, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
To clarify, who would upgrade your scanner. I will probably upgrade
mine to a 5590 and give my father my Epson since he can't get drivers
for his old Epson under xp. I only spent $100 for the scanner and
mostly got it to see if I could make a go of things, but I think
getting a scanner that would do what I need would be a better option.
Scott
On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:57 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Scott and all,
I've broken out the read iris part of your message into a separate
thread both for the sake of this discussion and because it's good
info for anyone looking in the archives for read iris stuff since
we can only find info by subject there.
To ad my two bits, I ordered from the site I think or maybe picked
it up from apple but didn't find that site impossible to deal with
using my Mac but they may have changed it in the months since I
looked at it. I've got an hp usb 6250 here and they told me they
could upgrade my scanner with one that would work on the mac for
100 dollars but it is probably one where the interface would come
up so this is valuabble info. I'll go ahead and order the 5590 or
whatever because the money is not of greater concern for me than
the anoyance or possibility of anoyance.
Thanks!
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Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 14, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
on Read Iris, I had a chat with them regarding the issue of the
scanner driver interface coming up, they said that is a function of
the scanner manufacturer's software and there's nothing that can be
done, but the scanner does have to be twain complient. I spoke to
Epson and they informed me that this is how all the scanners
behave. I then spoke to HP and was told that only scanners like the
5590 and higher-end stuff behaves by not bringing up an interface
and that scanner is $299. Not sure I want to spend $299 on a
scanner at this point so guess I'll have to live with it. Also the
Iris site when you order the pkg is a real drag to work with and I
was forced to use ie on the windows platform. Hey they US rep
agreed the site sucked at least. I did get it for $59 instead of
$129 so I do not know if this was some special or anyone who tries
it gets the special deal, but that deal came to me in an e-mail.
