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    Product: 
  Photocopier Protm v1.09

 

    Category: 
  photocopier program

 

    Manufacturer: 
  Nico Cuppen Software

 

    Vendor Website: 
  
       http://www.nico2000.com/
              

 

    Rating: 
   superior; priced right

 

    Reviewer: 
  E. Nicholas Cupery

 

    Review Date: 
  06 October 2000




 
 




Introduction

Photocopier Pro is a copier program used to make copies in black & white or
gray-scale or full color, from any TWAIN compliant scanner to your printer.



 
 




Pros



 
 




Cons



 
 




Discussion

I've been looking for a better photocopier program for a long time, and
Photocopier Pro v1.09 is it. This is the only copier program I've found that
will remember which TWAIN device you want it to use for input.  This became
important to me right after I bought a slide scanner.  Now I have two TWAIN
input devices which are used for entirely different purposes, and I don't
ever want to make photocopies from the slide scanner.  Now I can
keep my photocopier program pointed at my flatbed scanner permanently, without
having to worry about selecting the correct TWAIN device every time I want to
make a photocopy. 


Another nice thing about Photocopier Pro is its support for a physical "Copy"
pushbutton on the flatbed scanner.  I have Photocopier Pro registered as the
program to handle this event, so now all I have to do is press my "Copy" button
and up pops Photocopier Pro.  Very convenient!  (Note that this works fine in
Windows 98 SE, but not at all in Windows 95 OSR1, and I don't know about newer
versions of Windows 95 or the original Windows 98 version.  This, of course,
has nothing to do with Photocopier Pro, and everything to do with Windows 
itself.) 


Photocopier Pro has a very nice set of options that you can select, and that
will be remembered from one copy to the next.  I'm talking about options such 
as whether you want to maintain the size of the original image or expand it
to fit the printed page.  Another option I'm particularly fond of is the option
to show a printer setup dialog box just before printing. (I keep this turned
OFF, so that Photocopier Pro will always print to my default printer, yet I
can easily see that others may prefer to select a printer each time. I just
love options!)

I am not going to discuss each of the many options and features of Photocopier
Pro here, because the program is available as shareware.  You can download a
fully functional version (with the usual unregistered version nag screen, of 
course) from the vendor's website. I suggest you do so, even if you are happy 
with your current photocopier program.  You may just find that you like this 
one a lot better.

 
 




Conclusion

Try this program.  This is the best deal on a photocopier program I've
come across. 


 
 






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