Re: How to disassemble Epson 2580

On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:31:31 -0500, "CSM1" <nomoremail@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



Well, I'd much rather have a scanner that would hold up over
time, as opposed to one that will wear out because of plastic gears
and bearings. If that means spending $1,000 for a well built scanner
as opposed to $300 for one that uses a lot of plastic, I'll buy the
$1,000 scanner. There's nothing worse that having a scanner die on
you in the middle of a scan, over the weekend.<g>
My ScanMaker III is supposed to work with Win XP if I use WIN NT
drivers. I tried that but every so often I'd get a error message and
I had to shut down PhotoShop and restart the computer. After a while,
it got to be bothersome so I just bought another scanner.
I agree, they don't bother to update the drivers for the older
equipment. I still like my ScanMaker III, but it's relegated to the
shelf gathering dust.

Talker


Have you tried the Windows 2000 drivers?
Win 2000 drivers work better in XP than NT drivers.


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CSM1
http://www.carlmcmillan.com


No, MicroTek support said to use the NT drivers, so I did. As I
recall, they said to download a certain file that contained drivers
that could be used with XP, and I think the file was under the NT
heading.
Now that I've got the Canon scanner, I doubt that I'd go back and
use the MicroTek since it took so long to do a scan. I think this
Canon will do a preview scan in under 4 seconds. The Microtek took
about 30 seconds to do a preview scan. The ScanMaker III was a top
scanner in it's day, but at 600 dpi max resolution, SCSI connect, and
very slow scan times, it's pretty much outdated.<g>

Talker
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