I have used this scanner for a vast quantity of 35mm Colour Slides,Black and White Negatives and also forcoloured prints on Calendars which I wanted to preserve.Although it has a SCSI output this is easily dealt with via an Interface Card in a small form factor desktop running on Windows XP. There are two software discs that come with the Scanner; Newcolor 4000 and 5000.The former is used in conjunction with Photoshop or other TWAIN software and the latter is a stand alone system; although I have always used Newcolor 4000.