Scanner for the Amiga

[DrDekker]

The only scanner I've ever used on an Amiga is a Power Hand Scanner (B/W) which connects to the  parallel port.  It's been mothballed for over 15 years, but I remember having to scan images in strips and join them using Power's scanning software package.  Scanning and editing the images was a slow and painstaking experience, yet the results produced, gave a great sense of achievement and it was (perversely) great fun too!

Nowadays (on a PC) it's all too easy!

[DrDekker]

@T3000

Ouch - something definitely amiss there.  I'm using an ancient scsi Epson1200 (that I bought for £4 from a carboot) on my WinXP system - takes a couple of seconds to warm up and about 10-60 secs to do a full colour A4 scan (depending upon resolution) with perfect results every time.

I do remember having similar problems with a parallel port Plustek which worked flawlessly on Win98, but was totally unreliable on WinXP.  It was basically a driver issue as there was no official XP driver support for it.