Re: Has anyone used the Canon FS2710 film scanner with a Solaris box?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00

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In <37D845DA.1433D6C6@_.agd.nsw.gov.au> Anthony Mandic <am@_.agd.nsw.gov.au> writes:

>	I just recently bought a Nikon Coolscan 2000. Its got a 50 SCSI port
>	(Honda interface). I asked around in the newsgroups re using it with
>	Solaris but I never got a reply. Dunno about the specs but there is
>	a program called VueScan that can handle most scanners (check in
>	rec.photo.digital), so it can be done. Now all I need to do is find
>	a copy of Gerard Holzmann's book "Beyond Photograpy: The Digital Darkroom".

As long as it supports TWAIN you should be able to use the shareware 'PINT'
package (meaning Pint Is Not Twain) to scan and transfer image data from the
scanner to your computer. I've successfully used PINT with other
twain-complient SCSI scanners in the past...

Regards,

Craig.
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From: cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: Has anyone used the Canon FS2710 film scanner with a Solaris box?
Date: 1999/09/23
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