I recently bought a Howtek HR8000 scanner with Trident on Mac OS 9. The output TIFF from Trident seems only 8-bit per channel, and the HR8000 suppose to scan at 16-bit, I assume. It doesn't seems an option in Trident to set the bits. Can anyone used Trident help me?

The scanner get around 8700 scan cycles on it when I bought it. Does that number mean anything about previous usage?

Thanks