On 21/01/2017 10:19, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
jbm wrote:
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Canon 8000F Flat-bed and Photo Scanner will not work under a Win 7
64-bit environment.
Canon have never issued the drivers for it, neither has anyone else,
including Microsoft,
not even generic drivers. 32-bit drivers are available to allow use
of the flat-bed, but
nothing is offered for the photo scanning side of it. And there is no
support at all for
Win 10.

Is this two scanners in one - a normal A4 (or legal) flatbed, and a
smaller one for prints? Or is the "photo scanning" aspect just a way of
using the main scanner but at a higher resolution (or something, though
if only software that can presumably be done afterwards)?

In outward appearances, it is a standard flat-bed scanner. However, it
is possible to remove the white back plate above the scanning window,
which reveals a built in light source that will shine through any
negatives or transparencies placed on the platen. Canon provide film
holders to place on the platen, so that a strip of six 35mm negatives or
four 35mm transparencies can be held in place. Special software,
ScanGear, is required to activate the light source, and the scanning
resolution is raised to a maximum of 9,600 dpi for this operation.
Maximum resolution for ordinary scanning is 4,800 x 2,400 dpi. The
ScanGear software is also needed to achieve these resolutions. In the
past I have successfully scanned in 126 sized negatives (made my own
holder), and managed to print A4 copies of them with pretty good
results. I used the JASC Paint Shop Pro 9 imaging software, though very
little, if any, touching up was necessary. The 8000F, although not cheap
at the time, is a fantastic standard page/photo scanner, and offers more
than acceptable results for negatives and transparencies, at a fraction
of the cost of a dedicated machine. It's a pity all support for it was
removed after Windows XP.


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VueScan says it works with 8000F Canon.
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/canon_8000f.html.

32-bit maybe, but not 64-bit.


But... It's $40 for the home version. Almost as much as a new scanner.
I use v.9.4.32 with my old XP3 HP 7400c on W7/64.

This is one of the many things that makes me cross: there obviously _is_
some sort of standard, or semi-standard, scanner interface that _does_
work under both OSs, but either the scanner manufacturers, or Microsoft,
or both, are very loth to "support" (release details of) it. So the
small company behind VueScan (IIRR, they're .au or .nz) have to work
hard at digging it out, for each model of scanner they support. (I don't
begrudge them the cost of their software; I just wish it wasn't, as Paul
in Houston says, about the same as a replacement scanner for all but the
most demanding applications. But they've got to make a living.)



I have never found a 64-bit generic scanner driver, at least not one
that would run the 8000F in basic flat-bed mode. And I've looked all
over the place.

jim