So, I should put on the driver that came with it, eh? I didn't put presto back on and don't want to (had crash, fresh install winxphomesp3) ...thanks to all who answered!!
-----Original Message----- From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:00 PM Subject: Re: scanner There are two components to making a scanner work. First there are the drivers that communicate with the software and the scanner. Then there is the software that will do it. Unisntall Presto and download for free Irfanview. I am not sure if Gimp does it but you can try that also. Both are free. Stewart At 06:46 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: >I have a swell little scanner ...travelscan 464 ...it comes, of course, >with a cd...well, it includes presto image manager which is >slow/cumbersome; on my laptop the scanner shows up with microsoft image >manager software and works like a champ (winxpprosp3) ...I have no idea >how it got that way. After crash, my desktop (winxphomesp3) is redone >fresh (a parallel xp install got me everything back ...cool). I don't >want Presto and I wonder how to get it to work like on my laptop? Do I >need to just install the driver without Presto? Or what? Before, I >had to run a black and white sheet through the scanner with the presto >thing to get it initialized. I don't think my laptop ever required >that and it works fine & scans fine. How should I approach this? >...TIA!! Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
