Hi John,

If you have control over what scanner/platforms your users will use, then I'd adapt my choice to that.

If not, you have two choices:

1. Use wia in xp and kodak in the rest. The problem with this option is that twain drivers still work on xp, but I don't think you can access them via wia automation. I think you have to go with a 3rd party ocx for this.

2. Use a commercial ocx or library, which will guarantee that you can access the scanner regardless of the platform used.

I've never played with something like eztwain, so I don't know if it would work on an XP + wia-compliant scanner. Ah, the hoops we have to jump through just because Microsoft doesn't like things "not invented there".

Good luck!

Alex


>I guess USB Epson 1660 is partly supported. When I go into Paint and select color it scans OK. But if I use black and white the scanner light blinks and paint reports an error.
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>I have been playing with eztwain.dll and it appears to be a solution for all the 32bit windows platforms. But as you would expect it is not easy. So far I have been just creating the header file - where I have "declare" statements. I'm really not sure it's going to work because I have only got the program to access the scanner. I have not saved a file or processed the file in anyway.
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>So, my thinking is this will be a better overall solution than writing something that calls kodak drivers if win98,win2K and WIA drivers if win ME or XP.
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>If I'm going the wrong way please let me know. What are you thoughts?
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>John