Vuescan Win 7 64bit and Polaroid Sprintscan 45 Ultra

[Worker 11811]

... it has existed from day one with Vuescan and the Sprintscan 45 Ultra. If he wasn't motivated to address the issue in the previous 8 years...

VueScan is compatible with more than 1,800 different scanners. Assuming that Ed Hamrick spent one day testing each one, he would have spent over five years just testing scanners and doing no other work. There are a lot of different scanners and there are a lot of different problems that can occur with any given scanner. It would take several people working full-time for decades to solve every possible problem that could occur with every scanner.

While you have the right to expect the software to work the way you need it to work, I think you're being a bit rigid. You need to look at the bigger picture.

Send Ed Hamrick an e-mail. Explain the problem. He will fix it if he can.

Go here to see the FAQ page: http://www.hamrick.com/sup.html#q

There you will find suggestions on what he wants to know when you report a problem. Follow those suggestions. (Be sure to attach the log file.)
If you do, Ed will answer you in a short time. If there is a bug in the software he will push out an update.

The last time I had a problem, he fixed the problem in less than two days.

[cabbiinc]

Try pressing Scanner> Calibrate and see if that gives you anything better.
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/...annercalibrate

Another thing I'd try if that didn't work.
Press Preview, set the crop box to smaller than maximum, just big enough to cover your negative.
Go to the Crop tab, set the Preview Area to crop box. Press Preview again.
Click Image> Release Memory, press Preview again.
Does this still show the stripes?

That's about the only thing I can think of. When you email ed be sure to include the Vuescan log.

[roscolo]

Try pressing Scanner> Calibrate and see if that gives you anything better.
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/...annercalibrate

Another thing I'd try if that didn't work.
Press Preview, set the crop box to smaller than maximum, just big enough to cover your negative.
Go to the Crop tab, set the Preview Area to crop box. Press Preview again.
Click Image> Release Memory, press Preview again.
Does this still show the stripes?

Still shows the stripes, and Vuescan Calibrate doesn't work with this scanner model. That seems to be the source of the problem that renders Vuescan incompatible with Polaroid Sprintscan 45 Ultra. Thanks for the suggestions, though.