Driver to Canon scanner Lide 80

It currently is not officially supported by Snow Leopard. Some unofficial methods may exist with SANE, Vuescan, or other open source solutions*:

http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#SCANNER

- * Links to my pages may give me compensation

Just sitting here now trying to figure this out. I've used this scanner since about 2004 with my powerbook and it always worked perfectly. Tonight I tried it on a new imac and a 3 year old imac running Leopard and neither will work. Checked for and installed drivers but nothing seems to help. It seems like on the powerbook I used a Scangear tool in Photoshop but this keeps pointing to the canonscan driver. Hope to resolve this as the scanner is rarely used and like new. I'll get back in a week when I bring home the powerbook and try it on there. I have been told that Snow Leopard is very picky about drivers and software installed in general. Best of luck with the problem

Goodwill.

I gave my Canon scanner to Goodwill when Canon decided they did not need/want to support their products in in system upgrades.

I bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap and they DO support the scanner in SL and they posted updates and work arounds while they were in the process of developing the new drivers.

Canon, Bah! Fujitsu, Yay! 😉

My Canon MX700 has worked in Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard with the drivers from Canon's website.