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Summary: Not built for speed on Macs.
Review: I really like this scanner. It makes pretty scans, its small and convenient, requires only one cable, and looks great. A great little home scanner for the non-professional photographer. One caveat - USB 2.0 is not supported on Macs. Sure, you can connect this scanner to your Mac via USB 2.0, but you will get no more than the 12 Mb/second that USB 1.1 is limited to. I bought this for my Mac, upgraded via a USB 2.0 PCI card, then tested the scanner at various resolutions on both ports only to find that the scan speeds were identical, to the second. Then I found the fine print. Hopefully Canon will get their act together and release a driver update that supports Mac USB 2.0. So, great little scanner for the money, but they lose a couple of points for the lack of Mac USB 2.0 support.
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Summary: Great Scanner - NOT for Mac OS X
Review: I recently bought this scanner. Its a great device. Small, light, produces good scans. The drivers and software provided for Mac OS X are pathetic. I have had many other Canon products before (printers & cameras) and they have always had good software. So, I am really astonished.
This scanner is less than 10 days old and I am strongly considering returning it for one with better Mac OS X support.
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Summary: high-pitched squealing
Review: I returned this scanner after trying one scan. The high-pitched squealing it makes while scanning is very irritating. Installing the software added many megabytes of junk to my hard drive. Cheap but no bargain. Spend over $100 for a decent scanner.
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Summary: Not worth the frustration for a mac user!
Review: I spent 5 hours on the phone with tech support. They finally admitted without classic there is no real way to get this to work. This is not acceptable!!! The scanner scans great for my PC, but is dead on my mac.
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Summary: The most amazing piece of equipment I've ever owned
Review: I'd give it 10 stars if that were possible. It does everything you ask it to do without any backtalk and it has a wonderful price tag. From now on, everything I buy will be Canon-made.
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Summary: Works great with Mac OS X
Review: I'm not sure why the other reviewer is having so much trouble with Mac OS X (or why Canon support would tell him he had to use Classic). I've been using the LiDE with Mac OS X for a few months now using the CanoScan Toolbox X application. It was a bit of a hassle to find the software downloads from Canon's site, but once they were installed, the scanner works great with OS X.
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Summary: Works great so far and at a great price
Review: Nice compact size, and has offered all I've needed in scanning so far. The resolution could be better, but is working for me so far and I'm a picky descriminating person. It comes with good scanning software and is overall about as good as more expensive scanners that I've had that haven't held up for very long.
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Summary: Great and Easy to use.
Review: Old scanner(4yrs. and it died) was a general HP not for pic's or slides. Decided I want to copy my pic's & slides onto CD. This scanner works great with a great price. And it has a nice software package. Cannot compare to a high price scanner but I am very pleased the the results that I am getting from my pic's, old negatives and slides. I am using the software with W98SE and I have the scanner plugged into a Belkin hup. I also have the Canon printer i860 which does very nice pic's.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: Pros: Small and compact. Powered through USB. Does great with 35mm negatives.
Cons: Poor scan quality.
I bought this scanner along with the Epson 2480 to test. Although tedious with scanning 35mm film, the color and scan quality is great. But for scanning pictures and other items, the scan and weak, and the color washed out (greens come out too yellow, blues much lighter in comparison with the 2480 which I would give 5 stars for scan quality). There is also a horizontal banding in the scans which is very noticable when the image is printed.
I would recommend this only if you wanted to scan film and didn't really care to have a high quality scan of anything else.
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Summary: Despite USB2.0, this scanner is really really really slow!!!
Review: SCANNER IS SLOW: Since it's a USB2.0 device, I didn't really think much about how long it would take to transfer an image to my computer. The answer is: A really long time. The scan itself happens quite quickly, but the actual transfer takes about 100 seconds per 3x5 photo at 300dpi.
SUPPORT SUCKS: I thought something was wrong so I sent a note off to their email support. I explained that my USB port was functioning perfectly, but I got some stupid canned response back that, more than anything, demonstrated that they just didn't read the email. I replied asking for a more thorough readthru of my note and they simply never wrote back.
SCANNING NEGATIVES IS DIFFICULT: I won't bore you with the details, but basically, somebody important left the room when they were designing the software for scanning negatives. The fundamentals are all there, but you're forced to preview each frame, even though the negative frame holder is held in a fixed area. It makes bulk scanning cumbersome for no reason. I've heard others complain about this little gaff.
OVERALL: The image quality is good. If you're scanning the odd photo or negative, it's a good choice. If you want to scan a lots of images, this thing is just going to frustrate you to death.
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