On 28/01/2005, at 11:19 AM, Martin Hill wrote:
SUMMARY (for everyone who just glances at WAMUG postings!):
Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about how well
multi-function
Printer/scanners work with Mac OS X?
I haven't has experience with a wide range of these units, but I have
sold quite a few HP 1210 units, which all work very well. I have also
seen an Epson device (can't remember the model) which was also very
smooth.
My main advice would be do to with the software supplied with these
devices rather than the hardware, which I would expect to be fairly
uniform in quality between brands. Be very careful with Canon when it
comes to MacOS X. While their printer drivers are OK, they supply only
OmniPage LE for OCR. This has been deformed finto a very nasty little
piece of work, which is not only very weak at OCR, but relies on a
Classic Photoshop plugin for scanning. Caere have never bothered
upgrading it for MacOS X.
HP, on the other had, provide a FULL VERSION of ReadIris Pro, which is
fully MacOS X compliant and a very capable OCR package to boot. Much
better value.
I'm not sure what Epson provides these days (I think it might be
TextBridge) but I do know it works fine with MacOS X. No mucking around
with Classic.
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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