> I have external Que!Fire CDRW, an HP 2100m Laserjet and a Umax Astra 1220s > Scanner. > > It seems that I can get driver upgrade support for all of my peripherals > except for the scanner. I use Omnipage Pro for my scanning work. > > I cannot find any serious support for any scanners nor any upgrade support > for any chaceter recognition. > > Does anyone know of any support sights or forums that could give me some > insight as far as support for the Mac OSX.
Mark- I have an older umax scanner also, and as far as I know they are still in utter limbo. :( Below is a list of macos x product compatibility (from 5 months ago) and they basically said they won't even DECIDE if they are going to make drivers until 30days after the release of macos x, but they basically have said nothing that I've seen. <http://www.macaddict.com/osx/mlist.html> There is a petition for getting umax to support their older scanners under macOS X, I believe they have 730 signatures: <http://www.petitiononline.com/umaxosx/petition.html> Some people have reported success as far as using vistascan within classic to access their scanners (3400 was the one he mentioned I believe). The last thing you can try is an excellent little app called vuescan, which is a 3rd party application (not free, but not expensive and tyou can test it with your scanner) that works under OS8-OSX. It supports different SCSI, film, firewire and USB scanners. You might lose some special features on your printer, but it really does do a great job and will take care of your scanning needs (besides OCR) via OS X. <http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html> As for omnipage pro, it doesn't look good. It may or may not work in classic... But it took them a long time just to support OS9, and even then it seemed like the felt as though they were doing the world a favor... I don't use it, just have some clients who do (lawyers) so I had to look a lot of this up for them. -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
