If I remember correctly, with a USB scanner Viewscan required that you
have a working USB driver for the scanner. That's usually why the
"native" scanning software fails.
The driver model was changed by Microsoft several times from Win2000, to
WinXP and Vista and support for the old model was completely dropped
with the release of Windows 8. Sometimes you can get older drivers to
work with Windows 7, in compatibility mode, though that's not guaranteed
as those compatibility modes are sometimes not all that compatible.
On 1/19/2018 11:30 PM, David Mann wrote:
On Jan 20, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
Also, all software & drivers... which unfortunately won't work with
modern operating systems (at least in the Microsoft world - don't know
about Mac). I've been using it with VueScan with great results.
IIRC Minolta got out of the scanner business before Apple went to Intel.
As it's USB you should be able to use it with an old OS in a virtual machine on
modern hardware. My experience with USB devices on Virtualbox is that it was a
bit fiddly to set up but it worked very well.
Your other choices are Vuescan, or an old machine (PPC Mac or Windows). I had
to keep old hardware as my scanner is Firewire.
Cheers,
Dave
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