• Canoscan 9000f Drivers Windows 10
• Canon Canoscan 9950f Flatbed Scanner
• Canon 9950f Driver Windows 10

The CanoScan 9950F is an update to the winner of our recent scanner roundup, the CanoScan 9900F (, August 2004), and it tops its predecessor in just about every respect—resolution, color.

Canon CanoScan 9950F

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• Pros

  • Slide-scanning features are far ahead of most flatbed scanners.
  • Color-restore feature.
  • Good OCR accuracy.
  • Scans directly to PDF format.

• Cons

  • No ADF.
  • Dust and scratch removal feature doesn't do much.

• Bottom Line

  The Canon CanoScan 9950F is an all-purpose scanner with good OCR accuracy, one-button scanning to PDF format, and a bundled document-management program. But the emphasis is on film, with scans of reasonably good quality and a design that lets you easily scan film in a range of sizes.

The Canon CanoScan 9950F ($399.99 direct) flatbed scanner encroaches on territory usually reserved for film scanners. With a claimed 4,800 pixel-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution and 9,600-ppi mechanical resolution, plus the ability to scan film at sizes from 35-mm to 4-by-5 inch format, it's one of the few flatbeds to succeed at film scanning. In addition, the 9950F offers a solid all-purpose package for document management, OCR, scanning to e-mail, and scanning photos.

Scanners' actual resolution is limited more often by their optics than by the number of pixels. That's not a problem with the 9950F. At any given resolution setting, its scans show more detail than scans from any other flatbed model we've tested, including our other Editors' Choice in the field, the CanoScan 8400F. Just as important, the 9950F (like the 8400F) does far better than most flatbeds on dynamic range (the ability to retain detail across the range from black to white). With one hard-to-scan slide in particular, it did a remarkably good job with details in both a dark tree line and clouds in a bright sky. The scan quality isn't a match for the best film scanners, but it's better than some.

The 9950F also offers some touches that make film scanning easier. The transparency adapter in the scanner top covers the entire platen, and the unit comes with a variety of templates to match. The template for slides, for example, holds up to 12 slides at once, instead of the usual two to four. That speeds up the mechanics of setting up a scan, and it makes the process easier than with other flatbeds or even many dedicated film scanners. The 9950F also scored well for photographic prints, with good scan quality and a color-restore feature for faded prints.

More surprising, it's also relatively strong on such business-oriented applications as OCR and document management. For OCR, it comes with OmniPage SE 2.0, and was able to read text as small as 8 points in both Times New Roman and Arial fonts without a mistake. For document management, it comes with Presto! PageManager 6.11. We also like the front-panel buttons for scanning to PDF format and to e-mail.

We'd like the 9950F even better if it had an automatic document feeder, but even without one, it's one of the better all-purpose scanners we've seen.

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Slides:
Business cards: N/A
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VueScan is compatible with the Canon 9950F on Windows x86, Windows x64 and Mac OS X.

If VueScan isn't working with the Firewire cable, try a USB cable, try a different Firewire port or a different Firewire cable.

This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter | Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms.

It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass.

Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light.

Canoscan 9000f Drivers Windows 10

You need to install the Canon driver to use this scanner on Windows x86, Windows x64 and Mac OS X. On Windows x64, you need to use VueScan x64 to use this scanner's transparency adapter.

Canon Canoscan 9950f Flatbed Scanner

This scanner is supported on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later if you first install the Canon drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later (these will work on newer versions of Mac OS X). Also, run the x32 (not x64) version of VueScan with these drivers.

Canon 9950f Driver Windows 10

Note that Canon drivers for Windows Vista or later will usually work on Windows 10. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later will also usually work on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra).