El Capitan and Scanners

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Anyone nervous about upgrading to 10.11 might like to know that:

1. Flexcolor and a Flextight X1 scanner work just as normal, with an Apple FW400 to FW800 cable plugged into a FW to Thunderbolt adaptor.
2. Vuescan (which seems to have an update every time I open it; not sure if any are specific to El Capitan) continues to work fine with a Nikon 9000 and a Konica Minolta 5400 II. The Nikon uses a FW400 cable plugged into a FW400 to FW800 adaptor, itself plugged into a FW to Thunderbolt adaptor, and the KM5400 is a simple USB connection.
3. The Epson V850 did require a new software download from Epson, and it initially wouldn't open. It showed a dialog saying my scanner was linked to Image Capture (it never has been) and did I want to use it with TWAIN? The trick is to say yes to this - I had clicked on No the first few times thinking TWAIN was a plug-in for use with PS and the like. Well, Epson Scan must use it too. After saying Yes I have had no problems. Vuescan can also see and control the V850.

Chris
 
I use VueScan with Nikon Super Coolscan 9000, Coolscan V, and Epson 2450. Works fine with all of them.

I also use both VueScan and Image Capture with an HP E710n-z Multifunction printer/scanner. Again, no problems at all. The VueScan iOS app on iOS 9.1 drives the HP E710n-z just fine as well.

G
 
Has anyone upgraded who has an older Mac? Mine is from 2009 and it ran so poorly with Yosemite that I had to revert back to my previous OS. Wondering if El Capitan is an improvement or if I'm going to end up wasting another three days of my life by upgrading.
 
I'm on a mid 2010 27" imac. I was running lion and said what the hell. It's a little laggy at times. Thinking of bumping up to 32 gigs of ram and an SSD. Should pep things up to give me some more life out of the machine.
 
I'm still on Lion and had foolishly upgraded to Mountain Lion. When I installed Mountian Lion my Mac Pro would no longer hold its monitor profile and my Wacom tablet didn't work. After wasting a great deal of time I never got things to run right so I installed a SSD with Lion on it and haven't had a single problem. My Wacom tablet, Lacie monitor, Imacon 848 & V750 all run fine.

Unless forced to do so I have no plans to upgrade OS.
 
Tom, I have an older iMac and all I did was install more RAM to get Yosemite going. I'm of two minds about El Capitán because of what happened to me with Yosemite and my Epson scanner (they just wouldn't talk to one another), but I'll give it a couple of months or less (after checking for updates all the time), because, in the end, Epson had an update for my V500.

I don't know if your machine is a laptop or a desktop, but your main problem may be RAM. Take care!
 
x-ray said:
I'm still on Lion and had foolishly upgraded to Mountain Lion. When I installed Mountian Lion my Mac Pro would no longer hold its monitor profile and my Wacom tablet didn't work. After wasting a great deal of time I never got things to run right so I installed a SSD with Lion on it and haven't had a single problem. My Wacom tablet, Lacie monitor, Imacon 848 & V750 all run fine.

Unless forced to do so I have no plans to upgradOS.
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Smart man. And disconnect it from the internet.

Use something else for mail etc
 
On the subject of Epson Scan, there's also this crazy issue -- once you I managed to get the current version to run at all, I found that it couldn't scan a group of negatives without you having to switch focus to the Epson Scan app after each neg. Otherwise it just sits there, twiddling its thumbs.

Other people have seen it too, confirming that I'm hopefully not going nuts -- see this thread on the Apple forums.
 
Oh, I haven't even thought about that before upgrading to 10.11
I guess that's how much I trust Vuescan to drag my LS-8000 thru the future
 
Thanks for the suggestion Francisco. I'm afraid my Mac is a pretty basic MacBook, so there's no room for expansion. It's probably time to think about a new one. We've managed to get six years out of this one. We've never had a computer this long before.
 
Tom, my last laptop lasted eight years... with a hard-drive transplant and a bit of a RAM expansion (I purchased it in 2006). That was back before 2012 when they stopped making them with an accessible RAM compartment.

I'd take mine to a reputable computer repair place... or to the Apple store in Naperville, and find out whether they can do some surgery to add RAM to your MacBook. Otherwise, maybe it's time for a new toy! 🙂

As for me, I'll try El Capitan in a couple of months (like in late November) in my laptop. The iMac will have to wait until the Epson issues get cleared. My scanner gets a lot of non-photographic use and I need it more often than I imagined.
 
Remember that VueScan and Image Capture will drive scanners for more than just photographic use.

I only rarely bother to wait very much when OS X system updates come out. Partially because I participate in the beta programs so I know what to expect, and partially because I feel it's much better to keep software current and upgrade incrementally rather than wait for the necessity of upgrading and then have to deal with major failures of large bits of software all at the same time.

El Capitan is mostly an internals update: It improves on Yosemite's performance and compatibility in quite a number of subtle ways without changing the UI very much. I have it running on my oldest, least powerful computer (2011 MacBook Air, 1.7Ghz i3 processor with 4G RAM and 128G storage) and am not seeing any issues using it. It's snappier than Mavericks and Yosemite were on that system.

G
 
Justin Viiret said:
On the subject of Epson Scan, there's also this crazy issue -- once you I managed to get the current version to run at all, I found that it couldn't scan a group of negatives without you having to switch focus to the Epson Scan app after each neg. Otherwise it just sits there, twiddling its thumbs.

Other people have seen it too, confirming that I'm hopefully not going nuts -- see this thread on the Apple forums.
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I havent noticed this. Mostly because I was scanning plates.
 
TEZillman said:
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I'm afraid my Mac is a pretty basic MacBook, so there's no room for expansion. It's probably time to think about a new one. We've managed to get six years out of this one. We've never had a computer this long before.
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I have owned Macs since the the very first one.

All of them were still working fine 6 yrs out. I still have the first color Mac laptop stashed away someplace and it still works.

However I usually end up buying a new one every 4-5 years. The software (OS and Apps) seem to get more complex incrementally and then one day you realize life would be easier with a faster computer.

Execute for the major changes (Intel CPUs only) with Snow Leopard in 200o, upgrades have been routine. To be fair I do not use old peripherals. Practically all of the frustration comes from third-pary vendors who do not bother to make their SW compatible with the new OS. These companies just don't care about their OS X customers.
 
Godfrey said:
... I have it running on my oldest, least powerful computer (2011 MacBook Air, 1.7Ghz i3 processor with 4G RAM and 128G storage) and am not seeing any issues using it. It's snappier than Mavericks and Yosemite were on that system.

G
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OS X 10.11 improved the performance of my mid-2013 MB Air as well as my late-2012 MacMini.
 
Pacific Image PF 120 Pro film scanner wouldn't talk to OS 10.11.1. Contacted Scan Ace and was told they could confirm my problem. (Helpful) And had no idea when a patch would be coming. Happened with both CyberView and VueScan (latest rendition on both). Finally solved the problem by doing a Time Machine reset to before I installed El Capitan. Waiting with baited breath for patch before I try 10.11.1 again. Otherwise, seemed to work well.

Oh, on 27" iMac, late 2013
 
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