I just realised I never thanked Rob Findlay and Robert Howells for their suggestions regarding this problem - I forwarded the Vuescan suggestion to our friend but haven't heard back from her yet.
So thanks Rob and Bob for your recommendation of Vuescan. (I must admit I use Vuescan all the time with our own scanners so should have realised it would have been a good solution for this problem - sigh) :-) -Mart > From: Rob Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:15:13 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ScanWizard problem > > From what I read on the net you are not alone in experiencing aggravation > with Microtek. Seems there support for Tiger and Mac OS is pretty lame. > The majority of satisfied punters have switched to Vuescan which is a > commercial ($50US) software package to replace most scanner drivers. > Receives nothing but raves from the industry mags and most users. > A shame to have to purchase additional software to run something you have > already paid for but sounds like it does the business. > http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html > Hope that helps. > Rob > > On 25/10/05 9:01 AM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does anyone have any suggestions for a friend of ours who is having problems >> with ScanWizard under Mac OS X 10.4? I haven't used this software myself. >> Details below. >> >> -Mart >> >> ------------------ >> >> "I recently up-grading to Adobe Creative Suite CS 2 Premium. In doing >> this, to get the best out of it, I also upgrading from Jaguar to >> Tiger. This then meant I needed a new driver for my scanner. I use >> ScanWizard Pro (now 7.21.3). >> >> The problem is that it doesn't seem to give me a good a colour >> reproduction result as the old version of ScanWizard that I used with >> Jaguar. >> >> I've have tried and tried to fiddle with the files in Photoshop but I >> cannot pull the colour into an acceptable reproduction of my original >> artwork. I had written a quite acceptable action script in Photoshop >> for the old ScanWizard files but cannot do this for this one - the >> colours are too far off - or perhaps it's my lack of knowledge) >> >> I've complained to Team Digital where I bought my software .... They >> suggested perhaps I could partition my hard drive and run the old Jaguar >> with the old ScanWizard, but said this was drastic and they would look >> into better scanner settings in the new ScanWizard to fix the >> problem. I don't think this will prove successful so I am >> considering my other options." >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
