Visual scanning jammed

[mikailborg]

I'm trying to remember when I bought my Umax 1200 SCSI scanner. It's gotta be at least 12 years old... maybe 15 or more.

It's certainly old enough for the adhesive holding the glass platen to the upper casing to fail, dropping the platen down into the mechanism and jamming it.

I think the old thing's trying to tell me to replace it. I've been having to run hacked Linux software to use the scanner with OS X 10.4 as it is. Wonder if I can find a legal-size hi-res USB scanner for a decent price. Anyone got any suggestions?

Comments

[phred1973.livejournal.com]

I was halfway through replying with a glowing review of the Canon LiDE 35 I bought a few years ago until my brain parsed the 'legal-size' caveat.

Bummer.

I dunno that they make a legal size variant of that machine or not, but I really like it. Hope that's worth something to you.

[phred1973.livejournal.com]

Also - there is a portable scanner we used in USAREC that ran documents through with rollers that would probably scan any length document, provided it would fit 8.5 in or narrower.

It had pretty darned good resolution too, especially for it's size.

[jlfranklin.livejournal.com]

There are some sheet-fed models you can get for under $150. I don't know which support Mac OS, but I imagine some must. What do you consider a "decent price?"

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

That's pretty reasonable, I expect. I user to prefer flatbed to sheet-fed, but if the sheet-fed tech is good these days I'd give it a whirl.