I bought it as a complete refurb from Michael at Genesis and had it delivered to a friend's business because there's no way a freight truck could possibly make it up my driveway - some drivers can't get their cars up here either and my wife has to go get them at the street and drive them up and down. I had someone available to help me move it yesterday afternoon so I went and picked it up and a couple of hours later it was in its new home. Putting it in place was uneventful and with two people it was only a 20 minute job.
I'd done a lot of homework re the physical size and weight and while i waited for it to ship I built a cabinet to hold it along with my 4880. The shelves for both printer and scanner pull out almost 30 inches - actually about two inches clear of the cabinet. I used drawer slides rated for 150 - 175 pounds per pair and built a rotating platform on top of each shelf - you always need to get to the back of these things for something - be it attaching cables or clearing a printer jam or looking up a serial number or whatever, so designing the shelves to rotate was a priority. In order to be sure everything would operate as planned, I modeled the cabinet and the machines in Rhinocerous and animated the model in Cinema 4D to be sure there'd be no interference.
And guess what - it all operates as planned. Must be dumb luck (not!) I use an old MacBook to drive the scanner and it seems to run the latest oXYgen quite well and the nice part is that the computer sits on top of the scanner when everything is pushed into the cabinet, and I can drop the computer onto my desk top to operate the scanner from my office chair.
A few photos
Software installation seemed to go OK, but oXYgen reported errors at startup, so I contacted Michael and discovered that I needed to run the installation utility that would scan the calibration target and run diagnostics and build a series of control tables. So I ran the utility and it failed on the optical test. I noticed that a web browser was running so I terminated it and shut sown networking and reran the utilities successfully. It took about 40 minutes or so to complete the control table build.
OK, time to try a scan. A bit confusing going through the menus the first time (heck it's still confusing on the 7th or 8th try) but after a bit of trial and error I got a rather nice scan of a 4 x 5. I have a lot more work ahead of me to get fully up the learning curve, but I sent a copy of the scan to a friend who knows nothing about scanners etc. I had previously sent him an Epson 750 scan of the same negative. He immediately saw an improvement in the handling of details, particularly in the shadows. jpeg to follow as soon as I shrink it enough to fit the forum requirements. Scan was at 4300dpi.
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