Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

[moneybags]

Hello,

First of all, I hope I have not put a post in the wrong forum area (this is my post on here) as I could not see a Microfilm Scanner area on the forum.

At our offices we have a Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 with a SCSI connection and it works beautifully on Windows XP.  We are moving to Windows 7 and have successfully managed to get SCSI drivers sorted BUT when we run the installation CD Windows 7 does not want to know (this is what we expected, but you have to hope).

The original CD states that it contains: -

ISIS & Twain Driver for Microfilm Scanner 300/350 v.1.1

Capture Perfect 1.0 Ver 1.053

Is anyone aware of any Windows 7 software for this device as our reseller tells us that it is not possible to get our device to work on Windows 7 and they want us to buy a replacement for about £5,000 which is more than we paid for the MS 350.

Thank you for any replies, even if they contain bad news.

[btlbre]

A physical SCSI card is not required if you are using a SCSI to USB converter.

You said that you uninstalled the old version of ScanPerfect. Did you save the needed .dll file before doing so?

[rauwitt]

There shouldn' be any problems to get CANON MS 300II running under Windows 7,

because this OS is totally supported by CANON. You can find the suitable drivers

and manuals here.

[rollingwave]

Hi:

Finding this post and the following thread has given us some hope!!

Instead of the MS350, we have a used MS400. In every other way, we have the identical problem and wonder if these workarounds will help us configure the MS400 to work with Win 7.

I am the volunteer tech with a non-profit group known as the Quebec Family History Society (QFHS). We are a genealogical society based in Pointe Claire, Quebec. We have 7 desktops in our library; one of which is currently dedicated to the MS400. We depend on it to view and scan microfilm and fiche. Currently though we are having trouble configuring it to work with Win XP and are not sure whether it might work with Win 7. It has worked with XP in the past, but we just reformatted the hard disk and are in some difficulty.

Like this original post, we can't even consider purchasing a new scanner as it is way beyond our means. I have just subscribed to the Forum and will be making every effort to use your suggestions as well as contact Canon directly to see if they have anything helpful.

I plan to follow up with a little better technical detail letting you know the specific SCSI card/board we currently have installed. I believe that it is the first on the list provided here; the Adaptec AHA-2930 U. It is over 5 years old.

Do you think that we have any chance of migrating to Win 7 with our MS400?

I noticed that contributor "rauwitt" introduced a list of the 4 compatible SCSI boards as well as a list of the steps to configure the MS350 under Windows 7. There appears to be some confusion as to the board as described in the two posts. Is it the AHA-2940 AU or the AHA-2940 UW?

Thanks so much for sharing this thread. I look forward to any advice you can send our way.

[rauwitt]

Hello rollingwave,

The list of SCSi boards in my first post derives from the manual of the Canon MS 350.

Indeed the SCSI board I used under WinXP and use under Win7 is the Adaptec-AHA 2940UW -

without any problems so far.

I couldn't find any similar list in the instructions for the Canon MS 400.

But as contributor btlbre said the choice of the SCSI board isn't so important.

In your place I would use the SCSI Board from your WinXP installation:

Adaptec AHA 2930U. You find the suitable Win7 driver here.

The OS must be Win 7 32 bit.

Good luck!

[rollingwave]

Thank you both very much!

We are grateful for your responses and feel more confident about what we have to do. I have found the drivers for our card: AHA-2930CU and downloaded them. I will keep you posted as to our progress. We are also looking for a good image acquisition software as we do not have a licence to CapturePerfect. We have been using Irfanview for years and wonder if you have any suggestions.

Glad we joined this thread.

RollingWave

[rauwitt]

Hello rollingwave,

another image acquisition software is XnView which is free for private use and non-commercial

companies.

[maryslibrary]

This forum has been useful to me and I wanted to share my results.  I was able to get MS400 working on Windows 7 32-bit at a small public library in Western PA.  I'm pretty sure MS400 won't work on 64 bit Windows 7 as I haven't been able to find any drivers for MS400 that the 64-bit OS will recognize.  If anyone has any information otherwise, I'd be glad to hear about.

My setup uses Adaptec 2940U PCI SCSI card (thanks to the win 7 driver mentioned above by contributor rauwitt)

We are using eCopy Desktop v7.1 for image aquisition that our library purchased awhile back and is what we've always used.  It still works fine on Windows 7 32-bit.  The software seems like it would also work fine on Windows 64 bit, but it doesn't matter without corresponding functional 64 bit drivers for MS400.

The specific drivers for the MS400 I am using actually came as part of the eCopy software package.  I am assuming these are the same as what is available online from Canon, but can't confirm.  I haven't tried using any other image aquisition software.

[btlbre]

Allo rollingwave! I don't believe the model of SCSI card matters, as long as it has drivers for Vista or newer. My client was using an obscure USB to SCSI adapter, and since the scanner was the only SCSI device they had, it was difficult to confirm whether the adapter itself was working.

The main thing seems to be the library file that the Vista+ version of ScanPerfect is lacking. As long as you copy that file to the correct folder and the scanner's drivers are correctly installed, you should be OK. Of course, there is a possibility that the MS400 uses a different method to communicate that cannot be enabled as easily - but chances are good that is not the case.