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Old scanner keeps on ticking - ka jowct - 10-23-2012
I fired up my Polaroid (Sprintscan 4000+) 35mm film scanner tonight to see if it would function in Snow Leopard using my preferred SIlverfast software. Lasersoft's app is scanner-specific, and for understandable reasons, the version of Silverfast Studio AI (v6.x) that works with this Polaroid scanner is no longer being developed. IIRC I got this scanner in 2002: at any rate, the earliest scans I can find date from May 2002.
I tried installing the software on my main drive, but couldn't get it to launch. I didn't tinker, but instead booted the system I last used to scan, which has been cloned from my MDD to my G5 and from my G5 to my Mac Pro, launched Photoshop CS2, imported using the Silverfast plug-in, and it's working like a charm.
Pretty good for software and a scanner that I was using with Tiger until recently. Actually, in May 2002, I was still using OS 9…not the same version of Silverfast or Photoshop, obviously.
Another reason I'm happy to have Snow Leopard and Rosetta available to me on this Mac.
Re: Old scanner keeps on ticking - SteveO - 10-23-2012
Cool. I have a circa 2001 CanoScan that I think also still works on SL. Gotta love that. Not sure if I could get my SyJet and it's 1.5gb discs to work on SL, though! But I guess it is circa '97 or so, so a lot older. System 8 era, I believe.