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If you're trying to run an old scanner on a Mac, look into Vuescan scanning software. My wife is still running a very old Canoscan scanner on her iMac with it.
by Finnucane 11y ago
If you're trying to run an old scanner on a Mac, look into Vuescan scanning software. My wife is still running a very old Canoscan scanner on her iMac with it. Vuescan supports almost everything that's not a drum scanner.
- cptskippy 11y agoThis is what really irks me about Apple and OSX. Things work fine until they don't at which point you need to pay a third party $40-90 so that your hardware will work again. If I were sitting on some professional multi-thousand dollar hardware this might be acceptable, but I'm not pay that much for a cheap USB scanner I spent less than $100.
- Finnucane 11y agoIs it Apple's fault if the manufacturers discontinue the drivers?
- cptskippy 11y agoThe problem isn't manufacturers discontinuing drivers, it's that Apple changes the requirements for a driver to operate with each release of it's OS making it necessary for driver manufacturers to produce new or updated drivers. For a company like HP or Canon with 10s of thousands of products in it's portfolio that's untenable, and with OSX only being a minuscule portion of their user base it becomes a huge waste of time and money.