>> 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 often providing updated drivers for long-out-of-date products.)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)
>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.ht ml >Oh and Christmas is *next* week... > Andre. Thank you for the useful tips. I had been waiting for Christmas next week, which now has coincided well with the delay in supplying the memory for the iMac. I did suggest to the supplier yesterday to bundle iLife 07 with the order! I want to use the scanner for is the occasional scanning at my desk of multipage documents to PDF or TIFF files to import into the practice management software. At present I have a MacMini to 'play' with, and will try it over the weekend. The above links directed me to the HPLIP site and it does state the HP 1220 is supported, however on the installation page states Mac OS X is not! Does this mean I have to use Darwin Ports? SANE does not list Laserjet MFCs in its support page, but on searching their database it does direct me back to HPLIP. Is this TOO much for an old veteran Wintel boy :) Dave Dowling _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
