It took me a while to get my canon scanner working under leopard. The trick is that there are two programs that you need to install – the scanner program and the driver. You need to install the canon toolbox which is the general canon scanning program called “CanoScan Toolbox Ver. 4.9.3.4X (Mac OS X)” but you also need to install the ‘driver’ for your particular printer (for my printer it was called “LiDE 60 Scanner Driver Ver. 11.1.3.0X (Mac OS X)”. There’s no where I could see on the canon page that tells you you need to download BOTH these files.
I found both these by going to the canon page here, and typing in ‘LIDE 60′ Then I got a list of options, and I chose the link under my printer ‘CanoScan LiDE 60′ which took me here. I clicked drivers and downloads which took me here. Both the files were there in the list. Install the toolbox first, then the driver, then you’ll need to restart.
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Follow these instructions and you canon scanner will work. Thanks
Thanks so much for this. After struggling for a LONG time, found this post. Did as you suggested (although I installed driver first, toolbox second) using Toolbox version 4.9 (even though 5.0 is available). Made sure to choose an image viewer (I used Acrobat, but you could use Photoshop or Preview) in OCR and scanning tabs. Worked like a charm.
Thanks so much. This solved the “no driver” problem perfectly.
It worked, thanks!
Thanks so much for the advice, although regrettably it didn’t work for me – I still get an error message asking me to reinstall the driver, even though I’m sure I followed the instructions exactly as above. Any other ideas? Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
You rock I was about to give this scanner away.
Thank you so much.
How can i add canonscan lide20 to mac osx
is it the same as above
cheers
Rod
Thanks, worked for me
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Does not work. Naturally. It’s a Mac!
Two months with a MacBook Pro – two months of sheer hell. Slick commercials, questionable product.
Is actually designed to work on a Mac??
Thanks so much it worked! I was wondering if there is a way to get it into Photoshop. ie. in the import thingie. Anyways you saved me TONES of time! Thanks!
Got a nice shiny new MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard recently. My Canon Lide 500 F had been sitting unused in the closet for awhile.
Downloaded the drivers and the Canoscan Toolbox, plugged in Scanner and tried it. After about 4 tries Mac gave me a nice polite message that perhaps I should unplug the scanner, open the lock and then plug it back in. LOL! Not one of my swifter moments!
Then I went to the CanoScan Toolbox, clicked the Settings icon. In the Settings Window there is a field for Save Scanned Image To. I set that as the default Scanner Output folder (which shows up in Finder under each users My Pictures folder). I also selected Photoshop as the program to use for opening the picture after scanning.
Voila everything works perfect!
PS Thanks for the tip. I went on line and searched for info before trying setup. Might have been fighting with it for quite a while had you not posted your tip.
I did download and installed both files, but when I start the “scan” in the toolbox it says “failed to open a driver”??? I have loaded the driver 5 times and it still cannot find it?
I had the same problem, but much earlier. My flatbed scanner would not work with Leopard and Canon said there was no work around. They offered me 10% off of a new scanner, but I didn’t see any advantage to that. I tried almost everything and finally caved in and purchased VueScan. My only regret was that I didn’t do so earlier. Check with their website for compatibility. Since installing it I have talked to several folks who have been using it for years, new scanner or not. I just checked and they do offer a free trial and claim to support over 1500 models. If you buy it will set you back $39.99. It says this includes one year of updates, but I am sure that I have been receiving them longer. Good luck.
their website is http://www.hamrick.com/
Thanks – worked for me with Mac OS 10.6.3
You have saved me lots of frustration
Agree with earlier posting – upgrading to a MacBook Pro has been a lot or work! Come on Mac
I was getting the software driver missing or corrupt, reinstall driver message as well on a Powerbook G4 10.5.2. I’ve always had the scanner connected to a USB hub along with a USB keyboard and mouse with no problems but recently it stopped working. After getting frustrated reinstalling the drivers with no success i just connected the scanner directly to the laptop instead of the hub and problem solved. I guess the canon lide 60 wasn´t getting enough power anymore. maybe because it’s been a lot hotter here lately and the internal cooling fan has been working a lot harder lately…so don´t forget the simple stuff like i did and thanks for the great post.