6 sep 2008 kl. 17.45 skrev Laurenz Bobke:
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).
Well, I´ve used Vuescan with 3 different scanners (a Microtek, an Epson, and a Minolta), and in all 3 cases it was so vastly superior to the proprietary sw that came with the scanners that I quickly uninstalled these and used Vuescan exclusively. It does crash at times (one sure way of crashing it is to turn off the scanner before quitting Vuescan), but not unduly often.
I should add that I´m using Macs (always have and probably always will), except for the forced acquaintance with Windoze when still at work (loved to get home to a real machine at night....), so my Vuescan experience is with the Mac versions. One of my sons is a Linux fan, however, and he has Vuescan on his box afaik.
