Digital BW, The Print

Thursday, November 28, 2002, 8:59:11 AM, Jerry Olson wrote:

JO> Keith, quick question,,,

JO> Do you HAVE to remove the old scanner software before installing
JO> VUEscan?  I have an Agfa T2500, and am not even sure vuescan supports
JO> it.  It would be a MAJOR hassle if it didn't work, or if I didn't like
JO> it, as I had to download about 4 different versions of the agfa software
JO> to get the scanner to work, and it was a major headache to get it
JO> running properly. I would never want to go through that again. There's
JO> at least 200 different agfa folders, and they are spread out all over
JO> the place on my hard drive.

JO> Thanks,

JO> jerry


Hi Jerry,

I'm not Keith but I can help perhaps. According to the Vuescan website
it supports Agfa flatbed SCSI scanners which I believe the Agfa T2500
is. But you never know until you try. You should not have to
un-install any of your existing scanner software to run and use
Vuescan, at least this has been the situation with my Epson 1200U
flatbed, Minolta Dual Scan II and Nikon LS-4000, all of which I have
used with Vuescan through the years, but then again none of those were
SCSI either.

Vuescan, while a wonderful software, is not for everyone as it's GUI
is not as user friendly or as intuitive as many vendor's softwares.
But time spent getting familiar is well worth it. Some just want to be
hand-held through the scanning steps, or are too lazy to take a few
minutes to learn the ins and outs of Vuescan's less "tutorial-style"
interface, and perhaps Vendor software is better for them. On the
other hand I find many vendor softwares, while "prettier" to be mostly
crap and I use Vuescan almost exclusively. I suggest you visit the
Vuescan site, download a trial version (identical to a registered
version but the scans have watermarks) and also take 20-30 minutes or
so to read through the online users guide and learn the interface a
bit. It's really not hard at all just needs a walk-through first to
see where everything is and what it all does. It will go a long way
towards your success and minimize frustrations from unfamiliarity.
Vuescan really is a great product, just needs a few minutes in the
beginning to get the lay of the land.

As others have mentioned the site is here: http://www.hamrick.com

Hopes this helped.

Best regards,
 Richard  

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