What is this?? & ?s re: scanners

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The EFI drivers are for printers only, not scanners. The best you can hope for is to check out the drivers that are provided by the manufacturer to find out if they are compatible with Tiger and Leopard (and Intel if you need that as well.) There are third-party scanner drivers for some scanner models such as VueScan and Silverfast but they may only work with standalone scanners.
OS X comes with only printer drivers, so if the printer is supported then you may only need scanning software from the manufacturer or third-party developer. HP, Epson, Canon, Brother, Lexmark, and Xerox are the major manufacturers with supported printer drivers included with OS X. You can check which models are supported here.
Hope this helps. I know it's a hassle searching for something that will work.

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