At 6:36 am +1000 5/1/07, David Dowling wrote:
>> 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often providing updated drivers for long-out-of-date products.)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
The HP1220 is called a fax. Product information calls it a
fax/printer. Does it scan on PC??????
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