application for scanner using on ibook G4

dolphin01 · dolphin01 #1 (**permalink**)

06-29-2011, 12:30 PM

My sister in law gave me her Canon N670U scanner. I have an ibook G4 10.4.1. I cannot get it to work. It asks for an application. The only app I have is iphoto which is not working properly. It's the old version. I think it's version 5 and I see in order to upgrade it to at least 9, I need to have Leopard.
Is there anyway to get this scanner to work with what I have now? I tried image capture and it says, no device found.

EvenStranger · EvenStranger #2 (**permalink**)

06-29-2011, 12:39 PM

You may want to consider trying VueScan. It's $39 for the standard edition, $79 for professional, so it's not "cheap" but it is pretty powerful. The current version is supposed to be compatible with 10.3.9 or later. It does have a free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee.

dolphin01 · dolphin01 #3 (**permalink**)

06-29-2011, 12:57 PM

thanks, I'll look into that....

That didn't work. I went back to the canon website for downloads and it says no driver is compatible or one may not be needed - sounds like they don't know.
any other ideas??
Any other scanner that would work with this computer?

dolphin01 · dolphin01 #4 (**permalink**)

07-02-2011, 05:29 PM

got it working now. I not only had to download toolbox but the driver as well. And if you try getting the driver for "mac os x 10.4" it says it's not available. You have to just use Mac os x. And it works.

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dolphin01 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 11, 2006 Location: California Posts: 172	06-29-2011, 12:30 PM My sister in law gave me her Canon N670U scanner. I have an ibook G4 10.4.1. I cannot get it to work. It asks for an application. The only app I have is iphoto which is not working properly. It's the old version. I think it's version 5 and I see in order to upgrade it to at least 9, I need to have Leopard. Is there anyway to get this scanner to work with what I have now? I tried image capture and it says, no device found.
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EvenStranger #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 09, 2010 Location: Virginia Posts: 845 Mac Specs: Currently 13" Late 2010 MBA, 4GB/128GB; Early 2011 13" MBP, dual core i7 2.7ghz, 4gb ram, 500gb hd	06-29-2011, 12:39 PM You may want to consider trying VueScan. It's $39 for the standard edition, $79 for professional, so it's not "cheap" but it is pretty powerful. The current version is supposed to be compatible with 10.3.9 or later. It does have a free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee.
	QUOTE Thanks

dolphin01 #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 11, 2006 Location: California Posts: 172	07-02-2011, 05:29 PM got it working now. I not only had to download toolbox but the driver as well. And if you try getting the driver for "mac os x 10.4" it says it's not available. You have to just use Mac os x. And it works.
	QUOTE Thanks

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