Hello, I have a Konica Minolta laser printer and Epson 1260 scanner which were both purchased in the UK. Does anyone know whether it is possible to get a power cable/adapter which will enable these appliances to work in the US? Thanks, SS

Hello I have a Minolta ScanDual IV which I have previously used with a four years old computer with Windows 98SE and USB 1 without having any problems, except a too small hard drive, too little memory and a too small monitor :-). Now I have a new computer with lots of memory and hard drive space...

My CanoScan N1240U scanner, set to "Color(Documents)" and 300dpi, takes 3.5 minutes (210 seconds) to scan one page of PC World Magazine (actually page 175 of the July 2004 issue). The resulting image quality, a PDF file, is just fine, but the time to scan this images is more than I care to...

The Nikon coolscan 3 I'm trying to install has a scsi to parallel port cable. I'm running Windows XP Pro can't find the right driver to set this up. Any help will be appreciated.

There is a way to modify the strip film adapter sa-21 to behave like a sa-30 roll film adapter. You yust need to open up the SA-21 and join two soldering points. You can find an image of the soldering points at: http://nikonscanner.tripod.com/SA-21_to_SA-30.gif Be aware that opeining up the...

Just wondering if a cheap little handheld would accommodate something I would like to do at work... I have orders at work that have a handwritten five digit number in the top right hand corner of an A4 page. I'd like be able to automatically scan that number and possibly output it in a format that...

I have some films and slides that are very bad that I would like very much to fix. Looking for the name of a program or a plug-in to do it. Thanks

I am looking for a good quality scanner to scan old marked photos (and possibly slides and film as well) for final manipulation (if any) in Photoshop CS2. Because dollar values vary all over the world (I'm in Australia) it is best to say that the price of the Epson Perfection 4490 would be the...

Any ideas here - I have 2 scanners connected via a scsi card to my pc (xp pro) - the first in the chain is a film scanner - polaroid 120 and that works ok. The second scanner is an old flatbed Microtek Scanmaker III annd that has been working fine until very recently. It previews the images ok but...

I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that...

Has anyone cleaned the inside glass surface of a Canonscan D2400U? I there a writeup anywhere showing the correct way to open the case? Beemer

Not quite sure which newsgroups to post to, but here goes. I took lots of photos on an old 110 camera (Thats the only name I have for it) and have many negatives from it. What I'd like to know is what scanners available today would let me scan these negatives for printing out later? Most...

I have used Smart panel with my 89 PC but after I upgraded to XP and reinstalled my software including Epson 1260 I get the following message "Unable to access the scanner because it is not ready or another application is using it. Close all scanning applications." I used to use Prestol Page...

Hi all I have just unearthed about 600 slides taken by my late father about 50 years ago. Can anyone suggest a scanner that would allow me to put these slides (some of which are deteriorating) onto CD/DVD whilst at the same time 'touch up' the problems with these slides. I have little knowlege...

Omnipage Pro 14 won't update, anybody figured how to get it done??

Hi everyone, I have a Trust Imagery 4800SP scanner at home which used to be hooked up to an old Pentium PC of mine. It still is, but the Pentium is now running Windows 2000 instead of Windows '95. Recently I tried reinstalling the drivers for this scanner because I needed it again. After a few...

I am considering purchasing a Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED scanner and optional slide feeder. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions concerning this scanner? Thanks.

My mother (age 77) wants to scan about 30 years worth of 35mm slides to burn on CD and give to all the kids/grandkids. She needs somethine not very expensive, and easy to use. And the time it takes to scan each one is somewhat important as well. Any suggestions?

I've finally decided to look into buying a new scanner, since I finally gave up my darkroom. After doing some research I think I've settled on either the Canon LS4000 or the Nikon IV ED (ls 40). I was hoping someone could break this down for me. I have an HP Photosmart that I've been using...

I'm typing pages on a Brother typewriter and then scanning it into MS Word with my HP 750. The problem is that the HP scanning software adds gibberish characters and hard returns. Is this because I'm using a typewriter, or is there a better scanning software out there? Sky