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SilverFast for MacOS X - Hooray!
Authored by: Chas on May 04, '02 06:22:47AM
I am extremely pleased with the performance and quality of Silverfast. I was dissatisfied with the quality of scans from Vuescan on my old SCSI Epson Expression 636, it lacked even basic controls for quality scans like eyedropper picking of black and white points, and the color and levels were always wrong, and difficult to adjust. I evaluated it, I never sent in the shareware fee and abandoned it. And I badly missed my favorite Photoshop 6 Classic plugin, SilverFast.

But one day I decided to phone up Lasersoft and ask them if they had an OS X version of SilverFast in the works. They said, "why of course we do, but since it's mostly a PS plugin, it will ship right after PS 7 ships." And indeed it did. And it's excellent. You can get a basic Silverfast SE for $50 purchased online, more advanced (and expensive) versions have incredible features like de-moire (the best I've ever seen) and the ability to generate custom ICC profiles. I've used about every type of scanner, from the 1-bit Thunderscan to a $500k drum scanner, and I've seen about every type of scanner software, and SilverFast is the best I've seen. I don't see how it could be improved. And it's cheap, and I'm cheap, I could buy a new USB scanner $100 but it wouldn't have this good a driver. So check it out at http://www.silverfast.com/ and support the developers that make truly great MacOS X software and keep our legacy hardware running!

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SilverFast for MacOS X - Hooray!
Authored by: Chas on May 04, '02 06:35:10AM

Oh.. I should say that SilverFast supports a wide variety of Epson SCSI scanners, as well as other manufacturers models, including a lot of fancy film scanners. Check their site for supported models. And if anyone knows where I can get an inexpensive document feeder or transparency adapter for an Expression 636, please let me know. Epson wants $500 for a document feeder, they are still available but I could buy a whole new scanner with feeder for that money. I sure hope the TWAIN driver supports my model, Acrobat supports TWAIN, maybe I could get get bulk scanning with a doc feeder to work. Paper documents scanned at 300DPI are at laser printer rez, they come out looking like perfect xerox copies. And Acrobat is incredibly efficient at compressing and storing these scans.



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SilverFast for MacOS X - Hooray!
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on May 05, '02 12:27:22PM


This is great news! I also bought a copy of SilverFastSE a while back to replace that poor excuse for scanner software that came with my UMAX Astra 1220S.

I have been using VueScanX, but I missed the features in SFSE, plus I prefer to scan in Photoshop.



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SilverFast for MacOS X - Hooray!
Authored by: douglasclements on May 27, '02 01:50:27PM

Hi,

Does not work for me...didn't recognize my scanner (TWAIN or Silver).

Hmmm...SilverFast SAYS 1650 PHOTO, but that's not listed on Epson's selections...I chose 1650. Am I out of the running?



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