Canoscan 8800F casualty of ElCapitan

That's a drag, Peter. Do you mean it wouldn't open at all, wouldn't communicate with the scanner, or what?

I think it just did not communicate with the scanner. It is a while ago, so I don't recall exactly why it did not work. I did test Vuescan and Silverfast Demos with El Cap and that worked fine.

My main tools are PS CS5 and Lightroom 6 and my workflow is just fine on Yosemite right now. They seemed to work fine under El Cap too, but you never know until you use it on a daily basis. And I did not want to have to get the Adobe PS subscription to CC, if something would not work right.

Thanks for the very useful info.

I faffed about with my CanoScan 8800f on El Capitan and experimented with similar procedures which you've outlined on here and got the scanner and Silverlight up and running - eventually!!!!.

Your instructions confirmed what I'd done to get it working and yes these instructions do work even on El Capitan.

I downloaded Navigator 1.0.8 but when I try to launch it, i get a box that says the driver is not installed. How do I get to the point where I can check that box?

lark18 wrote:

I downloaded Navigator 1.0.8 but when I try to launch it, i get a box that says the driver is not installed.

Sounds like you did not install the 8800F scanner driver. I have a link to it on the first page.

Thank you so much for this! After much deliberation and annoyance I was able to scan in what I needed - too many wonderful things needed regularly but not daily have been made inoperable due to my 10 year old Mac being too old and having to be replaced 😟 So glad to still be able to use my scanner 😁

I also have CanoScan 8600F which would not work on my OSX 10.11.2

After reading a number of community contributions, I downloaded CanoScan 8600F Scanner Driver Ver. 12.13.3 which is said, by Canon, to be for OSX 10.2 - 10.7 and with this driver on my OSX 10.11.2 my old CanoScan 8600F now works.

Thank you so much for your advise. Works perfectly now and my hair has started to grow back again!!

Thank you, Lorenzo - you have saved me hours of hair-pulling, not to mention my beloved 8800F 🙂

Success in using not one, but two, Canon scanners: 8600f and an all-in-one as well, on El Capitan 10.11.3.

I downloaded 8600f Scanner Driver 12.13.3 (I have the 8600f) and downloaded MP Navigator EX 1.0.8.

I can now use BOTH my scanners, using respectively:

-- Cancan Toolbox 5.0 for my 8600f, which now works as it did on Yosemite. AND

-- Canon IJ Scan Utility 2 for the scanner on my all-in-one Canon MG 7520 scanner/printer, which is a less good scanner but seems clever enough to make multipage pdf's for more than one page scans.

I seem to have my cake and eat it too.🙂 Thank you, Lorenzo!

I'm still not sure what MP Navigator is doing for my setup, if anything at all. I am not able to use it When I try to launch it it says "The scanner driver supported by this software is not installed. Install it and retry". BUT I don't need to use MP Navigator.

I have the same problem as you had, with my new MacBook Air OS X 10.11.2 and the scanner 8600F.

I downloaded MP Navigator and 8600F Canonscan driver Ver.12.13.3. MP Navigator says also " driver not installed ".

Can I use " Canon Toolbox 5.0 " ? How find it for Mac ?

I tried all that , but the driver does not start my scanner.

I have observed that the scanner suddenly no more works with my foregoing MacBook OS X 10.4.11 ( from 10 years ago ! )

I'm afraid I have to give up with my dear scanner .

Thank you for help

Is Scanner ScanoScan 8600F foreseen to be automatically " out " when it is 10 years old ?

In french : " obsolescence programmée "

Alas, as of today, 5/23/2016, nothing appears to work. A system report does not even show that it is connected to the usb bus. Unfortunately, I had to wipe my disk and reinstall OS X, so nothing Cannon related is there. I tried using an older time machine backup, but no joy. I am hoping that one of the family's laptops have an earlier OS so we can give it a try. The cannon website for the 8800f "sees" what OS is installed on the box, and says nothing is available for download.

It just sounds like a FERENGI Latinum making scheme to me.