<div dir="ltr"><div>Okay, try this:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Uninstall Canon's official "driver"</div><div>2. Unplug and plug back in your scanner.</div><div>3. Try this line in Terminal:<br><br></div><div>scanimage -v --format=png -o ~/Desktop/test.png</div><div><br></div><div>Let us know the output. We're basically gathering info here to help you out.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM Joe Zeff <<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 6/25/26 3:38 PM, Kelly Price wrote:<br>
> ...I think things are just going to work. If you have a printed photo <br>
> of your pet available to use as a test scan, put it in the scanner now. <br>
> Then from the Terminal:<br>
> <br>
> scanimage --format=png -o ~/Desktop/test.png<br>
> <br>
> If things work out, your scanner will scan the pic and then put the <br>
> result on your desktop as a PNG file.<br>
<br>
I don't have a printed picture of my cat, but I took a picture I had, <br>
printed it out and used that. Here's the output:<br>
<br>
scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O<br>
<br>
I did get a file on my desktop, but it was zero bytes, and went away <br>
when scanimage was done.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price<br><a href="http://redwolf.ws" target="_blank">http://redwolf.ws</a></div>