Quoting Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 7:57 pm +1000 2/1/07, David Dowling wrote: > >Hi all > > > >I have been lurking for sometime but here is my first post to the group - > > > >I am moving from a Wintel workstation to an iMac in the next week or so. > >I have been using a 5 year old HP 1220 MFC at work to do occasional > >scans of multipage documents at my desk, and surprisingly has work > >extremely well for that time. The main surgery scanning is performed > >on a Fujitsu mentioned previously on the mailing list. > > > >In Mac OS X, I can get the printer to work using Foomatic-hpijs > >drivers, but the scanner can't be recognized. Since HP has not > >supported this MFC for sometime, I am after a monochrome desktop MFC > >which is Apple Mac OSX - 10.4.8 and 10.5 :) - and Windows > >compatible. Linux compatibility would be a bonus - but not necessary > >at this stage. I have read some reviews that the Samsung and the > >Xerox MFC's, even though they are Mac OS X compatible in their > >specifications, require extra software to scan, eg Photoshop. Is > >this correct? Is the Mac OS X scanning not well supported? > > > > > >Regards > > > >Dr David Dowling > >Capalaba Medical Centre > > > > Depends on what exactly you want to do with the scanner - in > particular exactly which software you want to be supported. > > I have been using Acrobat and Sibelius with an unsupported on OSX > (10.2.4-10.4.8) and Adobe PhotoDeluxe unsupported on OS9 in classic > mode Epson scanner using TwainSANE. The odd bug still in the > TwainSANE package, but generally works fine when buggy parts are > avoided. Image capture (OSX bundled) also works fine. All these apps > work in plug and play mode after drivers installed. > > You may well be able to get the HP to work - if its scanner is > compatible with some other HP scanner > > SANE drivers: > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html > http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ > > > (I thought HP has done a great job with Mac drivers in the past - > often providing updated drivers for long-out-of-date products.) > > > -- > Dr Ian R Cheong, BMedSc, FRACGP, GradDipCompSc, MBA(Exec) > Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (for urgent matters, please send a copy to my practice email as well: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > PRIVACY NOTE > I am happy for others to forward on email sent by me to public email lists. > Please ask my permission first if you wish to forward private email > to other parties. > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > ---------
Have you by chance tried the Apple installed Image Capture app by chance. Found by accident that an Epson AIO/MFC worked natively under OS X for scanning purposes - nice suprise... A few other links to explore re HP and Mac State of the Scanning Union: http://homepage.mac.com/simx/technonova/C486203617/E20060613032714/index.html Oh and Christmas is *next* week... Andre. ------------------------- Andre Duszynski Research Officer Discipline of General Practice University of Adelaide Adelaide SA 5005 P: 08 8303 6269 F: 08 8303 3511 W: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/health/gp/ ------------------------- Think before you print !! ------------------------- CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
