From: Terry McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chas, you have given me hope. I have a UMAX scanner sitting beside me that I was about to give up on because it didn't work in 10.1 which is what is installed on the machine I am using to write this. (Rev D iMac - came with dual boot capability). Ironically, I got the educator's free deal on Jaguar, but didn't install it. I'll have to get it back from my son and give it a whirl.
Mine is a UMAX Astra 2200 (USB of course), which works perfectly with the UMAX VistaScan 3.7.6 plugin under Photoshop 4 in Classic under 10.2.8-10.3.x (would probably work in PS 5 and 6 for all I know ... I went straight from 4 to 7 and now to CS!).
Many "old" scanners are support natively in OS X thanks to Hamrick Software's $40 VueScan software. My particular model is not supported, but check out hamrick.com and see if yours is. Native scanning is COOL.
Recently an open-source project called TWAIN-SANE found a way to make my scanner work natively in OS X (cool!) but the software is still in far too primitive a state (compared to VistaScan) to be really useful at this point. TWAIN-SANE supports loads of old scanners. Google them for a link.
I haven't tried faxing for eons because it always seemed like such a crap shoot. That is one area where technology development seems to be stalled.
Before faxing became built-in (as of Panther), I used and paid $10 for a shareware program called Fax Center that worked perfectly for me. It's probably still around, look it up on versiontracker.com or macupdate.com.
I echo your sentiments about UMAX.
I really wonder if they realise how much BAD will they built up the way they treated their Mac customers like that. I've stopped plenty of people (using both platforms) from buying UMAX products by showing them that the company is willing to dump users without notice (I hear they've done much the same thing to Win9x users too). Believe me, I've cost UMAX some VERY pretty pennies.
_Chas_
"If you want to encourage your kids to color outside the lines, think creatively and zig when the other kids zag, get the Mac. On the other hand, if you want to teach your kid that life is full of frustration and that anything worth getting takes plenty of patience and hard work, a Windows machine should do quite nicely."
-- D. Plotnikoff
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