Another duff scanner!

[srichards]

Viewscan is doing my head in. The other day my 4870 stopped working. It was stopping during the preview & scan. I tried a different usb port and it was the same. It just starts off then stops and then does nothing.

I stuck on my old 3490 and that was fine so I naturally assumed that the 4870 was bust.

I got a canon 9000F ii to replace it so I could scan the medium format and the F$*(£(£ thing is doing the same as the 4870! WTF?! Tried another usb port.

I do not understand why a scanner would start doing a preview and just stop for no reason at all. It's doing my head in. I have just coughed up for a new scanner to find that it is no better.

Is there any way of telling whether the usb ports are duff on an imac? I have the same sparking issue when plugging something in as Will had... Really P'd off. I have to get this scanned and I can't!

 

[srichards]

It's vuescan. It can't tell you if there is an issue with the transparency adaptor so it just goes into a loop. Apple image capture can tell you which is how I discovered that's was what was wrong!

Fiddled with the adaptor so now it works but you wouldn't have any idea if you just used vuescan.

 

[joxby]

So you had "issues" with the tranny adapter on both the 4870 and 9000f ?

Tbf, it was unlikely to be a USB port, 99 times out of 100 its software or operator error......ehem..

 

[srichards]

So you had "issues" with the tranny adapter on both the 4870 and 9000f ?

Tbf, it was unlikely to be a USB port, 99 times out of 100 its software or operator error......ehem..

Odd thing is I don't have the film holders for the 4870 and it was set to flatbed mode anyway as it barfed on a normal document. The 3470 I plugged in and changed nothing and it just worked. That also has a transparency hood. Makes no sense.

9000 has blitzed through 60 odd transparencies and a load of prints without hiccups once I worked out what vuescan was trying to tell me through the medium of mime....