Thought I'd share this with you all, again, and hope it helps. (It's been years, but heed, these Canon's work very well (scanning/printing/etc..) With Apple's Mac. In all fairness, Apple has (still) needs to come a long way way with PnP with printers. I'm a professional geek-oid, and it's still not for the faint at heart. But...here goes again, and I hope my example was worded well enough. (We ALL have different environments, please keep that in mind, too.) Like many of you (us) I too spent a ton of time researching this particular situation, but... in Canon's defense this is actually a GOOD security practice. I will explain why following what I say is the "fix?" (not really a fix) work-around to make this happen. While AT the scanner, press the "SCAN" button. You _HAVE_ to be AT the scanner, select the scanner menu, and begin scanning "To Computer." (It's a setting where you wish to scan-to inside that 'scan menu.') Once you set it to "computer" and begin scanning, you'll see it (magically) appear in your scanner software of choice. (Of course, your Mac needs to be prepared for the remote scan - the Canon software will be waiting on your Mac you've already setup and told to wait for your scan, right?) I TOO recall I USED to be able to sit back (across the room for example) - go to printers, then select 'scan' and if I recall, it would just 'scan' and all would be fine. ...BUT, think about this: In a small office environment, if payroll (for example) were scanning employees checks (to copy them for what ever reason) this PREVENTs someone at/in a remote office (even inside your same bldg) from 'running the scanner capture on THEIR machine while the checks are on the glass' and by accident scans those checks AR/AP had on the scanning glass. Makes sense? Sorry, that's my quick reasoning and I hope I typed it well enough to easily understand/understand why. Help any?
