Rogier
Rogier Willems
Today I received my new Canon Coolscan 8800F
Exited I unpacked the box downloaded the latest software from the mfg’s website and was soon the scanner was humming, presenting me some very nice first scans. Even batch scanning of my Holga negatives went without a glitch. Wonderful!
Since the supplied software is rather limited I wanted to use Hamrick’s Vuescan. Something I have been using with my friends Coolscan 9000.
Once again getting Vuescan to work is a painful experience.
At first it claimed there where no Canon drivers. Then I had to install Rosetta and check that Vuescan will use it to open the application in Mac 10.6.2.
Still it did not work. Via the release notes I had to find out that I needed to find, download and install a poorly rated old piece of Canon software that Vuescan obviously relies on to work….
Still it did not work. So I had to go down into the library and delete a .plist that conveniently was named “hamrick.xxx.plist” rather than something one could recognize as “vuescan.xxx.plist”….
Still it did not work.
Needless to say that I have rebooted my Macbook Pro Unibody various times times…
When booted from an other account it worked however Hamrick wanted me to buy it again??? Its on the same computer!!!
Returning back to my user account I was 2 hours later able to start scanning with Vuescan.
What was easy for the simple Canon Application is still a mayor task that I am still not able to master in Vuescan. Batch scan……
Vuescan desperately needs to be updated. Probably rewritten. And come with a decent set of instructions that are easy to read and follow. And up to date please. The lack of all this might be acceptable for some freeware but certainly not worth the money Hamrick asks for it.
Desperate I took a look at the Silverfast website. Just the design of the site and their strange pricing structure make me curl my toes just looking at it.
Exited I unpacked the box downloaded the latest software from the mfg’s website and was soon the scanner was humming, presenting me some very nice first scans. Even batch scanning of my Holga negatives went without a glitch. Wonderful!
Since the supplied software is rather limited I wanted to use Hamrick’s Vuescan. Something I have been using with my friends Coolscan 9000.
Once again getting Vuescan to work is a painful experience.
At first it claimed there where no Canon drivers. Then I had to install Rosetta and check that Vuescan will use it to open the application in Mac 10.6.2.
Still it did not work. Via the release notes I had to find out that I needed to find, download and install a poorly rated old piece of Canon software that Vuescan obviously relies on to work….
Still it did not work. So I had to go down into the library and delete a .plist that conveniently was named “hamrick.xxx.plist” rather than something one could recognize as “vuescan.xxx.plist”….
Still it did not work.
Needless to say that I have rebooted my Macbook Pro Unibody various times times…
When booted from an other account it worked however Hamrick wanted me to buy it again??? Its on the same computer!!!
Returning back to my user account I was 2 hours later able to start scanning with Vuescan.
What was easy for the simple Canon Application is still a mayor task that I am still not able to master in Vuescan. Batch scan……
Vuescan desperately needs to be updated. Probably rewritten. And come with a decent set of instructions that are easy to read and follow. And up to date please. The lack of all this might be acceptable for some freeware but certainly not worth the money Hamrick asks for it.
Desperate I took a look at the Silverfast website. Just the design of the site and their strange pricing structure make me curl my toes just looking at it.
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