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Primax Colorado Direct 9600/d600 Driver Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

george
Tested on Windows XP

26 Oct 2006

 

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"This is "probably" for the 600 series.

It is definetly NOT for the 9600 series."

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Ni

3 May 2005

 

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"Can't make this work."

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Cliff

31 Oct 2005

 

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"Despite listing as drivere for 9600 and 600, this does not work for 9600"

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

erforceone

12 Mar 2005

 

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"how made one to install the driver for primax 9600,xp,port parallele?

think you

PS:erforceone2005@yahoo.fr i am french!!"

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Tobbe

14 Sep 2004

 

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"It didn´t work at all the install never started. It´s useless dont download this crap."

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

JoJo
Tested on Windows XP

26 Nov 2006

 

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"Worked perfectly...

But it can't recognize all my hd space, so after some huge scans, it got unnable to scan more, because can't detect more disk space."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

gk^

25 Aug 2004

 

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"I got a PRiMAX COLORADO DiRECT 9600 LPT and WINDOWS XP SP1 and it didnt work at all!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Eric Commelin

17 Aug 2004

 

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"Doesn't work on a Windows 2003 server"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

michael

6 May 2004

 

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"I Can only view the read me file maybe i am doing something wrong it says installed correctly but does not detect the device tells me to check cables etc but my scanning equipment is perfect with win 98 but not with XP"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Primoz Krisper

16 Apr 2004

 

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"Driver D600 doesn't work with my Primax colorado 9600 scaner and now I don't knoow how I can get rid of it."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Trevor

23 Feb 2004

 

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"Doesnt work with xp whatsoever."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

shadowjake

11 Feb 2004

 

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"installed ok but didn't work at all"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Bruce

11 Feb 2004

 

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"I used it with W2K and it didn't work. If you have W2K get the driver named pismusbeng (from here or direct from www.primax.nl)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

rahul

15 Jan 2004

 

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"i need a task bridge for windows 2000 advanced server"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

steve

2 Jan 2004

 

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"the driver does not work with xp and xp cant find my scanner"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Chris

24 Dec 2003

 

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"This does not work for me. XP still wont recognise the scanner as there!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

anna

25 Nov 2003

 

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"works perfectly, may be the most doesn't know how to use it."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Peter Warner

8 Nov 2003

 

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"Bryan - Thanks mate this really works. Colorado Direct 9600 parallel connection + sony VAIO + Windows XP home edition. Download file to desktop.Install taskbridge from disk.click on driver icon.Reset computer. Bingo!!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Peter Hurdman

5 Nov 2003

 

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"As Alex Smith said, it does work if you reboot, I'm using a D600 and not the 9600 though. It does seem slightly slow and can be unstable, requiring a couple of attempts occasionally."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

robert

2 Nov 2003

 

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"it does not work..if anyone knows where to get this colorado direct 9600 for XP - LPT1 driver,help"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Mats Hogberg

26 Oct 2003

 

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"Doesn't work with XP. Anyone who knows how to get it work?"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Danny

4 Oct 2003

 

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"It doesn´t work for me.....if anyone knows where to get this colorado direct 9600 for XP - LPT1 #@~€#@@#!!! driver ..........please help me !!!!! Thanks"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Antonio

26 Sep 2003

 

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"Didn't work for my 9600 on Xp via LPT1"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Alex Smith MCP

9 Sep 2003

 

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"It *Does* work on XP. You install it from the EXE, Reboot With the scanner connected and launch a program with TWAIN support (PSP etc...) then Aquire the image - thats all there is to it! Need Help? Then Mail Me!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Paul

9 Jun 2003

 

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"Ce pilote est ok pour le primax colorado direct 9600. Il faut d'abord le décompresser avec "winrar". Bon amusement! This driver works very well.Don't forget! You have to unzip it with "Winrar".Enjoy it!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

mpw1

9 May 2003

 

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"this driver worked for me, D600 on XP. Just clicked on the file and it extracted and set up itself. Had to reboot for it to work. Cheers Bryan..."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Macric

12 Apr 2003

 

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"If someone knows how to get my Direct 9600 Lpt1 scanner work on XP prof. i would become the hapiest man in the world!!! write to me please !! The driver doesn't work and i don't know what to do."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

crazy_winz

1 Mar 2003

 

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"Does anyone has it in french version? Because I tried this one and it doesn't work!! Excuse my english I'm french!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Shaun Stokes

20 Feb 2003

 

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"The driver works perfectly, but you will need an application to run the driver (i.e. word 2000). If you have word then try to insert a picture from the scanner, using word's toolbar."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

DID

18 Feb 2003

 

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"ill try to make it work but after all these comments.....non lo so"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

david

17 Feb 2003

 

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"ca marche pas sur xp peut on le telecharger en francais mon scan j en suis content sur 98 mais sur xp galere HELP HELP"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

POIOS ALLOS

16 Feb 2003

 

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"MALAKIES ANYONE FOUND A SOLUTION FOR PARALEL COLORADO DIRECT AND XP? HELLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

POIOS ALLOS

16 Feb 2003

 

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"MALAKIES ANYONE FOUND A SOLUTION FOR PARALEL COLORADO DIRECT AND XP? HELLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

walla

23 Jan 2003

 

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"very nice driver! changes the primax into a microwave-oven. very tasty bacon awaits you!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Eduardo Fencz

15 Jan 2003

 

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"Não funcionou! Doesn't work!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

David

12 Jan 2003

 

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"Same as most people, did not work - AVOID IT"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Alan

8 Jan 2003

 

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"Worked for me. If you have D600 load her up from the original disk and then download the driver. MGI photo suite needed RUN auto setup. Defaulted to ADOBE so used MGI get photo's. Check DPI is low. 1MB files are enough."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Peter Bernard

5 Jan 2003

 

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"Didn't work for me, and I followed all of the advice earlier on this thread. If anyone has any luck, please email me too. Many thanks"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Geo

15 Dec 2002

 

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"I just installed the driver under Win XP Pro and it works a treat! I am using the Parrallel Port version of the scanner. My suggestion is that you try it again. If it works for me, why not you?! Cheers."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Ezzie

13 Dec 2002

 

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"It doesn't bloody work. Its a pile of crap. If anyone has a way to get my scanner colorado 9600 going, tell me asap on hitmonez@hotmail.com"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

kinaton

11 Dec 2002

 

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"There is 2 versions of scanner. the USB version and the parallel version.. This isn't the correct driver for either XP or the parellel version. Anyone?"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

morpheus

7 Dec 2002

 

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"your driver sucks REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

klaas

3 Dec 2002

 

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"if I see the list below, I'm not sure wether it will work or not. But hey, why not give it a try? Wish me luck!!!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

ivan

26 Nov 2002

 

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"Now, I try to use my scanner, but I don't found www.primax.nl"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

ivan

26 Nov 2002

 

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"Now, I try to use my scanner, but I don't faund www.primax.nl"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

matthias fiegl

25 Nov 2002

 

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"Do not work with XP - any news on that?"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

general_boy

24 Nov 2002

 

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"Works very well.... For those who can not run it properly - "Right click on the p30_ennt.exe file then unzip it to a new folder", note you must have winzip. Then from that new folder double-click the setup.exe file. Be sure to restart your machine after restart install the program such as task bridge to test, be sure that your lpt1 is in normal mode. If it doesn't work

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

brett

24 Nov 2002

 

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"your driver sucks, and dont work....."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Ak666

21 Nov 2002

 

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"Could someone tell me the right way of installing this driver under XP ? I Couldn't Install it (Perhaps Lack Of Knowlage) Help ME PPL D"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Skwand

19 Nov 2002

 

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"First off, everybody can stop thanking this "Bryan" guy... all he did was post the Primax NT driver to this site like many before him. www.primax.nl Second of all, it would be much more helpful if those people who claimed it worked could offer a little more insight as to how. "Thanx Bryan!" is no help to anybody, and is not even appropriate given that he didn't actually

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do anything."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Mr password

16 Nov 2002

 

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"This driver works fine, I have WXP PRO and the drivers run well. Thank's"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Pawel

15 Nov 2002

 

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"Skaner wypierdziele te sterowniki takze nie dzialaja sa do dupy"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Andras Varga

10 Nov 2002

 

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"It is working on XP Home, after installing the Twain driver!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

john young

5 Nov 2002

 

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"uh uh, but having read all the other comments, I never thought it would."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Shep

20 Oct 2002

 

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"If anybody out there has found a working sloution to get a Primax Colorado Direct D600 scanner to work on windows xp professional through parallel port please contact me at c1x2@hotmail.com. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! P.s. The driver above did not work, surprise surprise!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Mark

13 Oct 2002

 

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"No Good on XP waste of time"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

sebastian

2 Oct 2002

 

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"Argh, doesnt work for me! Again!! I just tested the NT-Drivers and thought this one would be different, dammit! ("

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Fèlix

5 Sep 2002

 

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"My Primax Colorado Direct 9600/D600 36-bit, runs perfectly in Windows XP, with the driver from www.primax.nl for windows 2000! TRY IT!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

MOMOTARO

26 Aug 2002

 

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"This driver is useless... even u go on primax official web site u cannot find anything workin' under Xp... must find something else I suppose.."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

phill

20 Aug 2002

 

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"well im another sucker who tried this driver under XP, and you guessed it. its a waste of time."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Seb

19 Aug 2002

 

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"Doesnt work with Windows XP. I just get messages saying the scanner's not connected... and I've already changed the BIOS settings! This driver is completely useless."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Marty West

19 Aug 2002

 

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"Nothing works!!! I have downloaded all the installers and drivers, from this site, I can find that has anything remotley to do with either "Primax" or Colorado direct". But, nothing happens. The best result I got was at the first try. Then it installed the TWAIN32 source. But when I opened Photoshop to choose that source it said that there were something wrong with the LPT

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1-port! I just can't get it to work - and I work at a IT-related Customer support for crying out loud!! Some of the files posted here must have been done so by very lame people. I will take my search elsewhere."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

vennessa

17 Aug 2002

 

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"did nothing at all - as dead as a dodo!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

john

16 Aug 2002

 

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"Did not work for me."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

sam

15 Aug 2002

 

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"it doesnt have any effect with my XP professional.. it seems that they r fooling us"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

bally johal

10 Aug 2002

 

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"unfortunately, it detects the scanner but scans only black space...back to the drawing board..."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rob

9 Aug 2002

 

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"No virus, but it doesn't work!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

sampa

23 Jul 2002

 

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"its nott working in win xp proffessional !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

João Meneses

22 Jul 2002

 

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"Thanks the drive run under my windows Xp, but it just made the computer detect my 9600, When i try to scan it gives me a clean page ("

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Avinash

7 Jul 2002

 

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"Thanks a lot Bryan. It worked beautifully."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

irshad

4 Jul 2002

 

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"this softwear not working in win 2000"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

jose

30 Jun 2002

 

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"funciona pero solo escanea hasta mitad de escaner"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Janne

27 Jun 2002

 

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"My Colorado Direct 9600 wont work with this in XP. It wont scan at all.. o/"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Ali

15 Jun 2002

 

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"Didn't work for me - back to the drawing board"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rob Scully

10 Jun 2002

 

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"Didn't work for my d600 on Xp o/s via LPT1"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Lord Fakhret

9 Jun 2002

 

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"Unfortunately it didn't work... sigh!"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

diana

26 May 2002

 

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"it did not work for me it says it is for 9600 but it appears to be only for d600"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

safiya

25 May 2002

 

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"Does not want to detect the scanner, I think I will give up and buy another scanner that is compatible with windows xp ! unless anyone has any ideas as to how i can get it to work"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Jenny

22 May 2002

 

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"unfortunately my machine still cannot detect the scanner!!! any ideas?? (please!!!!)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Robert Frandevi

15 May 2002

 

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"Great driver. Works fine! Thank´s"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Adrian

10 May 2002

 

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"Displays "error. cannot find setup.lid file." error 105"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Bahadir

6 May 2002

 

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"Thanks for colorado driver. it is working well under xp."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Ove

28 Apr 2002

 

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"It does not work"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Pk

24 Apr 2002

 

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"It does not work for me... (Win XP)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Marcelo

5 Apr 2002

 

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"I'll test. Thanks."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

pat murphy

22 Mar 2002

 

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"Unfortunatly it dont work for me. i have tried everything. for some reason my machine wont detect the scanner. it is all connected right and power is supplied. any ideas???"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Michael Raven

5 Mar 2002

 

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"great driver works like a dream"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Hilton browne

16 Feb 2002

 

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"to date , works like a dream! Congratulations!"

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

NIghtFlier
Tested on Windows XP

23 Feb 2005

 

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"I've tried with my colorado D600 scanner but it doesn't work!"

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Ehlke, Rodolfo

8 Oct 2004

 

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"Don´t loose your time."

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