драйвер для canoscan lide25

Price: € 50.85 (incl. VAT) = ca. US$65

In the age of digital photography it is hard to imagine that some folk would stick to a standard film-based snapshot camera. I have a friend, who just loves her camera and asks me to scan images for her to put them up on . So far this meant a trip to my parent s house, where I would use a “windows only” scanner attached to an old Windows 98 machine. A pain. Since I also have a fair number of photos, which I wanted to digitize I decided to go off and buy a scanner.

Requirements? Reasonable quality, low price. Thus I went to my favorite Online Retailer for Mac and Mac-related hardware in Germany – Gravis ( ) and had a good look around. What I found was the CanoScan LiDE 25 – I am happy with my Canon Digital Camera, thus I figured I should be happy with their scanner and the price was right as well.

For this review I will look at the Scanner and the Scanner Driver, plus the free software that came as part of the package. Please remember this is an entry level product.

The scanner is compact, at 38.5cm (long) x 25.5cm (wide) x 3.4cm (high) it fits nicely on my desk. It attaches to my MacMini via a USB cable, which also delivers the power to the scanner. Thus the USB interface is good and bad news. The good news no power-brick. The bad news – it is USB 1.1 only, which makes for slightly slower data transfers than might be possible.

The scanner has an optical resolution of 1200 2400 dpi and 48 bits of color depth. LiDE stands for LED Indirect Exposure and I am not even going to pretend that I know why that might be good or bad.

On the front of the unit there are three buttons, which will start pre-defined actions.

And a last mention goes to the “Advanced Z-Lid”, which is supposed to help you scan items like books better. The lid works, but it requires a bit of pressure to be applied, before the “Z-Action” jumps in. I am not quite decided on whether this is a feature or a problem. In a way the heavy going prevents the lid from being a bit wobbly, on the other hand unless you read the box or manual, you might not know it is there. To be honest, I had the scanner for a few weeks now and just found out about this feature today

Canon supplied two CD-ROMs with the scanner software, both for Windows and Macintosh and in lots and lots of languages. The installation process is simple, but rather “windows-esque” (if you allow me to make up a word). You get a splash screen, which dumps the software Canon deems of importance on your machine.

While the installation couldn t have been easier, Adobe Reader 5.0 failed to install properly on my machine, but since that version is well out of date, it wasn t a loss. However the installation manager didn t realize that it failed, so later when I tried to scan to PDF I got an error, giving the impression the conversion failed, while it was only unable to display the file with Adobe Reader 5.

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