In conducting my scanning tests, I left the other four tabs (Crop, Filter, Color, and Prefs) at their default settings. The Input menu is also where you perform the Preview and Scan operations.įrom the Output menu, you configure the program to save your scanned files in PDF, TIF, or JPG format (or any combination of those three). The Input menu is where you enter a majority of your image customizations, such as the Media type, Media size, Bits per pixel, and Scan resolution. The Input and Output tabs are where you will invariably focus most of your attention when using the software.
The VueScan application is designed around several menu tabs where you enter your setting preferences. As a test, I tried a number of different scanning operations using VueScan 9 that produced satisfactory results in some cases, but not in others. The alternative to using the native Canon driver under Windows XP is to buy and install the VueScan application from Hamrick Software that can run under OS X, including Sierra 10.12. An annoying aspect about using the Canon scanner under Windows XP is that I will invariably encounter a ScanGear release lock error message that can take several minutes or more to resolve. I have a Canon LiDE 80 scanner that I bought in 2004 that still works when run under Windows XP but is unsupported on the most recent releases of Mac OS X.
As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
