How to run old Minolta scanners on Vista & 7

Also I have an old ME machine which I could use for this scanner.

rjerham wrote: Also, as you say this went under the Sony name as well, does that mean that I could theoretically install the Sony drivers and software and use it? These are easy to get hold of. Cheers Reiss

Only if you find recent drivers. The ones in the link I provided earlier are from 2002 and, as far as I can tell, those were old 16 bit drivers for XP, and will not work in newer Windows versions. There is also a TWAIN driver, but that too probably won't work in Windows 10 without some tweaks https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/twain-drivers/f45625ae-896b-431c-966e-574d27b9f9cf

I still think that your best bet is Vuescan's built-in scanner support

Also keep in mind that the scanner uses a halogen lamp as a light source, and almost surely the old lamp will not reproduce correct colors. And a quality replacement seems to cost many times the scanner price you paid. One of the reasons I chose the Dimage Elite 5400II is because it uses a LED as light source, much more durable than CFL or halogen lamps

Does anyone have any link to ImageFit. Its the only program I need and I cannot find it anywhere on the internet.

AudioDoc wrote: A little off topic, but perhaps of interest to some, I've been able to run my Minolta 5400 II on Windows 10 64 bit using Silverfast Ver. 6 by first installing the trial version of Viewscan. Previously I had been dual booting to Win XP to run my scanner with Silverfast. Regards, Kelly

That is because Vuescan has its own INF file (very similar to the one linked here), and once you install Vuescan, Windows has the generic USB scanner driver for the 5400 II. You would have achieved the same if you had used the modified Minolta.INF file in this thread

Incidentally, the original Minolta software for the 5400II works just fine in Windows 10, once you have the driver. In my tests (using slides), the original minolta software actually worked much better than Vuescan. I think I tried also a trial version of Silverfast, but the original Minolta software was still better for my needs

rjerham wrote: Okay, so I bought it, however I have to wait until next week to get hold of it. I have VueScan yes and I know it works with the Nikon, so I will reply next week after I plug it into scsi to see how it goes. Also I found this INF file with the RX-3 in it already. Will this work>?

I started looking further into how old SCSI scanners work and I think I might have been wrong before when I said that there was no standard way to define scanners for SCSI in Windows. It looks as if scsiscan.sys can perform a similar function to the equivalent USB set of functions. I'm not running Windows 10 on this PC, but if you see a scsiscan.sys somewhere in your Windows directory, it might work

So, assuming that there were no special aspects of the RX-3 that needed a driver, that inf file might work even for the RX-3. In any case, Vuescan installs its own version of a generic INF file, and at least when I tried for my Dimage Scan Elite 5400II, the Vuescan INF conflicted with the INF you just listed. So, unless you also have an original Minolta program, using the linked INF file won't help

For my Dimage scanner (USB), actually the original Minolta scanning software worked much better than Vuescan on Windows 10, especially for ICE with slides. The Vuescan images were lifeless and lower quality overall than the original Minolta software.

robca wrote: rjerham wrote: Ahhh so I just plug it in and if windows recognises it then VueScan should work? Well, it might. My reasoning is that you already have a working Vuescan with a working SCSI card and SCSI drivers, and a working Nikon scanner. That means that Vuescan can communicate with the Nikon over SCSI. Since Vuescan uses its own version of drivers and since it supports a lot of scanners, it's possible that if a RX-3 is on the SCSI bus, Vuescan will manage to talk to it Please make sure you understand how a SCSI bus works and how it should be properly terminated for multiple devices before connecting a new scanner. In theory you should be able to use both scanners at the same time on a single SCSI bus, but I would recommend to connect only one or the other (in that case both terminated). Fewer chanvces of problems that way https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/scsi/3940/aha-3940uwd/hw_install/scsi_termination.htm

Ahhh amazing thank you. Do you have any Konica software that you could link me to please?

Also can someone link my to ImageFit software, or any Minolta imaging program from around 2002 please.