Digital BW, The Print

Antonis, George,

The clunker for me with the Linoscan is that I am on Windows. I have 
heard good things about the Elite software but for Windows 98 they 
shipped Newcolor 4000 which has a pretty face but gives you very 
little clue as to what is going on. (There is now Newcolor 5000 but I 
am not eligible for an upgrade as I bought over 4 months ago.)

It gets worse. I upgraded to Windows 2000 to get arround the Win98 
memory barrier and the Newcolor doesn't run under Win2000. A 
complaint to Linoscan got a response that they do not support 
Win2000, and have no plans to do so. A kind techsupport guy sent me a 
copy of ColorFactory Pro which was probably good when it was last 
updated in 1998 but I quite frankly am not eager to learn the program.

So I need to see if I can run it with Vuescan or spend $699 for 
Silverfast. But if I can't get a 16-bit file out of the scanner I 
don't want to throw anymore money in that direction. So I may try 
that new Canon.

I don't think I need to tell you my opinon of Linoscan.

And this is drifting off topic badly.

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., antonisphoto@y... wrote:
> George,
> 
> have you had a chance to see the current Lino flatbed offerings in 
scanners? 
> If they ship with Lino Elite, that's pretty powerful software 
(except it doesn't do 
> 16bit or have profiles for color negs). Does the Epson  beat them 
for specs or 
> interface?
> 
> 
> Antonis
> 
(snip)