----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurenz Bobke" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 11:45 PM Subject: Trying to resucitate old scanner : I'm trying to make Windows Vista (64 Bit!) cooperate with my Minolta Dimage : Scan Dual IV scanner. : All attempts to do this with the driver CD failed. Updating to a newer : driver is no option: Minolta has sold the complete photo business and Sony : obviously is not interested in supporting old Minolta products. : I succeded in getting a few test scans done using the trial version of : Vuescan, but the programme crashed a couple of times, so I'm somewhat : reluctant to actually buy it. : The trial version watermarks all scans, so it's not real fun to do scans : that I'll have to throw away anyway. : What are other people's experiences here? Is Vuescan worth the money, are : there any known problems (or even better: solutions) with Vista? : Do you know of any good alternatives (apart from buying a new scanner, of : course). best bet is write to Hamrick himself, explain your problems and ask for his suggestions - he's very a very helpful person.. Vuescan is the ultimate scanning software and has been well worth the money for a lot of people alternatively you may dedicate an old computer to scanning as many do and use a KVM to minimise its footprint on your desktop karl
