[filmscanners] RE: Scanning Software Quality

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

I concur with your advice and wonder if Vuescan even supports Firewire
connections (and if it does, does it support them with the scanner in
question).  I have to admit that I do not use the latest version of Vuescan
and that all my scanners are SCSI scanners used with a Windows platform.  I
know that in my case, Vuescan does not use the twain driver under Windows
but uses a proprietary driver developed by Hemrick and often does not work
well with Windows XP using Adaptec cards and ASPI layers with scanners that
Windows XP does not support with its own ASPI layer factsimile.

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Andreas Siegert
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:44 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanning Software Quality


Subject: [filmscanners] Scanning Software Quality
Date: Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:25:27PM -0400

Hi,

Quoting HMSDOC@aol.com:
> scanner and am generally happy with it.  In an effort to see if better
quality
> can be achieved I have tried Vuescan, however every time and version I
> download crashes my computer in various ways when I use my scanner on
Firewire
> (seems OK on USB but the scans are much slower and it seems crazy to use
the
> scanner on USB when Firewire is available...and I paid for it). So Vuescan
was a
> bust.  I had briefly tried Silverfast, which came packaged with the
scanner, but
> the documentation is very poor (at least the version I have) and at times
it
> also seemed to crash my computer, though not as consistently as Vuescan.

I strongly suggest diagnosing the hardware. Your system is probably broken
in
some subtle way.
I suspect your firewire drivers or the firewire hardware is faulty.

Some programs exercies interfaces more than others and then you get crashes.

cheers
afx

--
Andreas Siegert
afx@muc.de
www.crash.muc.de

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