Preview won't open tiff file

The scanner part of our Xerox printer/copier/scanner produces a tiff file that can not be opened by Preview (it does on Windows); does someone know a work-around for this, preferably a free and small conversion program (GraphicConverter does the job but isn't free) or even better: a CMM solution.

Here's several freeware graphics apps that you might want to try.
Seashore @ http://seashore.sourceforge.net/
ImageJ @ http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
Goldberg @ http://www.topdownloads.net/index/mac/view/graphics/goldberg/1867_00.html?hl=&id=1867
Gimp @ http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
 Cheers, Tom

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