Heil scanner help....urgent

[Allen in Montreal]

A tenant in the building where I have my studio skipped out and did a midnight move,
they left behind a Linotype Heil scanner, a Topaz.

Anybody know these old units, is it worth trying to patch it together and getting it operational??

[ASRafferty]

Allen, I don't know if this will be any help at all... just ignore if not... but here's something Ted wrote in email to someone who was asking his advice about scanners back in 2006... it's not the Topaz, it's the Saphir, but the point may be useful:

"...when you think about digital equipment you need to determine the quality level that is satisfactory for your needs.... As an example, I spent this afternoon working with the scanner operator at a large printing house... For his personal work at home,when he can't scan it at the office, he uses a Linotype Heil Saphir. The Saphir is a 6 year old ... read many generations back ... scanner that only does 1200 spi but it delivers an honest 1200 spi and has reasonable dMax so it still works fine ... point is he is not going to replace it soon."

Now...whether the guy would get it fixed if it broke down, I don't know, but that was the mention of Heil I found (typos and all, so you know it's really Ted's!) and pass on FWIW.

[erie patsellis]

Allen, the Topaz is a beast of a scanner, but can do some amazing scans.

[Allen in Montreal]

Thank you,
I went down and picked it up, it is huge! The connection is scsi, so I will try it out on my old OS 9 Mac first and see if it powers up etc then look into software from there.

[JW Dewdney]

yeah - it should be good. But you'll need the software to run it. Try Linocolor 4 5 or 6 if you have it... If you don't -write me and I'll see what I can do.

[JW Dewdney]

The saphir someone mentioned earlier is actually about TEN years old - as is the topaz. They're both superior even to new epsons, etc... in my humble opinion. Well - I'm just saying I'd pick even a saphir over alot of newer choices.

[Allen in Montreal]

The saphir someone mentioned earlier is actually about TEN years old - as is the topaz. They're both superior even to new epsons, etc... in my humble opinion. Well - I'm just saying I'd pick even a saphir over alot of newer choices.

Any assistance getting this up running would be greatly appreciated!
It seems to power up well and the scanner lamp works.
I searched for an online instruction manual, no luck so far.



I checked the link to your web site, wow!

[ASRafferty]

Allen, did you already find this thread?

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=23428

A local printer may be your best resource....?

[erie patsellis]

Allen, I purchased an Opal Ultra a few years ago and Heidelberg USA was very accomadating, they sent me a Color Factory Pro CD gratis. It can't hurt to give them a call


erie

[seawolf66]

Only run that scanner on Mac O/S or windows XP Pro : Windows vista will give you problems: also I had found a Heil scanner parts dealer on the famous web site [ebay] when I locate it will email it to you