Canon LIDE 60 Scanner and Leopard - Can't Scan

I feel your frustration, but you probably have a driver that needs to be updated. I have a Canon MP780 all in one that could be used only when I used individual scan task driver to scan. Canon has since updated the MP Navigation to be compatible with Leopard and now works great. However if you are in the same boat make sure the scanner default is for your scanner. I got agitated when after down loading the new driver it kept telling me that it didn't recognize my 780 before I realized that the MP navigator was for several different models and I did check to make sure I had selected the 780. I think it was set for a 760 but when I check the right box, it worked like a champ.

As frustrating as it is, Apple says they are not responsible for third party compatibility up front. Sooner or later Canon will solve the issue.

You might do some net surfing because I think there are a couple of free down loadable universal drivers out there.

Anybody knows what I should do to be able to use my LiDE 50 scanner under Leopard 10.5.2?

I recently did an upgrade to Leopard, and updated to 5.2 . I tried my Canon LIDE 80 scanner with trepidation, and it has worked perfectly. I have Canonscan Toolbox X 4.1.3.0. (same as I used in Tiger)

I have always used VueScan. Canon wants you to buy the LiDE 90 probably. Vista x64 drivers for my LiDE 70 (which I bought assuming it was current and that they would upgrade drivers) even requires modifying the Twain name for VueScan to work. And the developer (Hamrick) is very good at keeping his software updated. Canon uses its own proprietary protocols. So I don't even think it is industry standard enough for Apple to support "natively."

Vista. Yes, Canon brought out a driver for the LiDE in fall '06. SP1 is being held from full release and DVD mastering while some vendors have more time to add driver support for new hardware and systems, logicboards. Vista SP1 has been in beta since August, a public RC1 came out and two non-public updates, giving developers time to work with the new release.

But vendors aren't happy. Drivers don't make money, cost time to develop and test (it can take 1-4 months for a driver and firmware), so they don't get much thanks. Thankfully, a scanner like the LiDE series are under $100 and perform well.

I had a nice $400 laser printer for doing envelopes and a few letters, Lexmark doesn't have drivers, and neither does Vista, and my 'new' laser doesn't do envelopes as easy, but at least it was only $180 and can print 3x faster (but I waste a lot of envelopes to get one good one).

The cost of any new OS is to make older hardware and software obsolete. New software to require ever more powerful hardware. This was something IBM learned 40 yrs ago. All in the name of progress and commerce.

A new scanner vs VueScan Pro (lifetime support). And your VueScan license works with Vista and OS X.

I have the Canon LIDE 60 scanner and it works great with Leopard since downloading "CanoScan Toolbox Ver. 4.9.3.4X" from the Canon site.

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=119&mo delid=11446#DownloadDetailAct

If you haven't tried this give it a shot.

The latest drivers are here:
http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/canoscan/lide-series.html

For the utility click こちら at the bottom of the page.

This page shows a list of Leopard compatible scanners:
http://cweb.canon.jp/e-support/qa/1055/app/servlet/qadoc?qa=049702

My LIDE 60 seems to be working fine under Leopard, and on a PPC Mac. I may be using it differently than most people though. I just run the ScanGear Starter app directly and scan through that.

for my LIDE 80 I click on the Canoscan Toolbox X-

PJB wrote:
The latest drivers are here:
http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/canoscan/lide-series.html

For the utility click こちら at the bottom of the page.

This page shows a list of Leopard compatible scanners:
http://cweb.canon.jp/e-support/qa/1055/app/servlet/qadoc?qa=049702

Not sure if I understand anything here. So the LIDE 50 is not working with Leopard?

I have a N670U which I think is the same as a LIDE 20.

While I somehow got it to work under Leopard, it was pretty ugly due to powerpc, etc. and consumed a ton of cpu..

What I have gone with instead, is twain-sane. The preview doesn't work, but the scanning works just fine! I noticed that the Canon driver is incompatible with the twain-sane driver, but I don't care. With Twain-sane I can use 'import' inside Photoshop.. with the canon driver I would have had to run Photoshop in rosetta mode to get that plugin to work. Pass.

http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/

That's right. The '50 is one of the scanners not working with Leopard.