![]() ![]() Notice that there are a lot of different options you can tweak and fiddle with, including notably the location of the saved scan, the filename, and the format. ![]() (I’ve obscured my home address from this document) This can take a while, btw, because 1) scanners tend to be rather slow, particularly in all-in-one devices and 2) it’s a lot of data.Įventually, though, you’ll see something like this: ![]() If you have something on the scanner plate or in the scanner feed, it should actually pull it in now and send a basic preview to the program via the network connection. It’ll show a big, empty window and look like something’s broken: Click on “Scan” to get into the scanning software. That should help out!īack to the printer / scanner window. If your Canon shows up as just a printer, delete and re-add the printer by clicking on the “+” button on the lower left below the list of known printers. On a printer that doesn’t have a scanning capability, those are missing, as you can see in the Canon printer driver window:įortunately, the Epson does have the scanner set up. Notice on the top, just above the printer’s name, the buttons “Print” and “Scan”. Tap on Return or click on the matching entry to launch the printer program: The fastest way to get to the scanner software turns out to be using Spotlight and searching for your scanner by name. Let me show you what I mean, using my Epson Artisan 837 all-in-one as a demonstration unit. Even on the Mac system, turns out that the standard Mac OS X scanner system is in the last place you’d think of looking: within the world of System Preferences. Way better!Īdd a networking scanning capability, however, and it’s not quite that simple to work with. Fortunately those days are past and most modern printers you just hook up to your Wi-Fi network and they just pop up on your Mac or PC systems. Years ago it was printing that was the roughest edge of the computing universe and getting a printer up and online with the proper configuration could take days of messing around and trying different settings. ![]()
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