Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

[Hansoon]

Before we tell the customer to bring his very good working BH-C-360 with only little on its clock to the junkyard, anyone has a solution to let it scan to Apple PC's with the latest Apple operating system? Any workaround?

Hans

[bsm2]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

Scan using Ftp may work but it's a maybe

[Ziggy]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

set up scan to email

[copier tech]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

Before we tell the customer to bring his very good working BH-C-360 with only little on its clock to the junkyard, anyone has a solution to let it scan to Apple PC's with the latest Apple operating system? Any workaround?

Hans

If they really won't upgrade a simple work around is tell them to get a NAS drive or even an old Windows PC (gasp) & use that as a file server, either works a treat.

[Hansoon]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

set up scan to email

That's exactly the problem. They were doing that since long, but their provider changed the security level and this old machine is not able of that anymore.

Hans

[techsxge]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

That's exactly the problem. They were doing that since long, but their provider changed the security level and this old machine is not able of that anymore.

Hans

Well you could get a email provider who does not have this yet, forward all emails to this provider and cross all fingers on your hand that the provider does not change it either.

[Gift]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

Scan using Ftp may work but it's a maybe

Yes this seems they only way if you don't want to put a NAS drive but you must install a FTP server tool since there is no onboard FTP server in MacOS since many years.
I wouldnt bother with set up scan to mail since this MFP generation doesn't meet the security requirements for most mail services anymore and the few services that might
work will probably close their support for any workaounds too during this or next year.

[copyman]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

If they really won't upgrade a simple work around is tell them to get a NAS drive or even an old Windows PC (gasp) & use that as a file server, either works a treat.

My IT guy has had to use an old PC a few times as file server with older models and Apple. Think he has also used a separate drive once on a Biz C220. Probably a NAS drive as posted.

[kirin]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

I usually use weddav with macos, there is an free app in the store ,webdavNav server.(easier than ftp)
Ea

[Synthohol]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

i take it you cant scan to USB on that series? i havent checked the manual so im just guessing. if you can then there is the simple solution.

[Gift]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

i take it you cant scan to USB on that series? i havent checked the manual so im just guessing. if you can then there is the simple solution.

I think C220 can do scan to USB

[Hansoon]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

Yes, it's possible, but that is for this customer no option since it cannot do scans of an Office file. Only PDF it seems.

Hans

[Hansoon]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

I will talk them into an upgrade. For the moment I plan to o ffer them a BH-C-284e with only 60K on the clock. If they start asking about the age of the machine, perhaps a BH-C-258.

Thanks all of you guys for your input.

Hans

[Synthohol]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

well fuck'em then

time to upgrade to a machine from this century or accept the alternate scanning methods. its not your fault the technology of today has surpassed the capabilities of that poor stegosaurus.
sorry, i just never let customers hold me hostage to things out of my control like security standards or OS upgrades when no driver had been certified for use.
thats some bullshit, i try to be as creative as possible with solutions but there is a line between what you want and what is possible and you will not hold me hostage because they are too lazy to use any of the alternate suggestions.

[Synthohol]

Re: Dinosaur is asking for a solution to scan to Apple.......

i think it scans to a TIFF file which can be imported into word.

Is A TIFF file editable?




. You'll need the original TIFF file to open and edit any text data.

just another suggestion.