So as my faithful reader will remember on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 I started the process of updating to Snow Leopard
Let me explain a little. I was thinking of posting a humorous post about the magnet that was distributed during the health screening at work. I understand that they are trying to have some fun and to make sure that we have all the pertinent numbers. I wanted to scan the fun part of it. I placed it on the scanner section of my Canon MP600, and pressed the buttons on the control panel as, nothing happened. I tried a few different things; nothing worked. I figured I had Windows XP SP 3 running under VMWare Fusion already, I will try it in there. Connected the printer/scanner to the Windows OS and it popped up asking if I wanted to install the new driver; it did that three times: printer, scanner, and card reader. After that was complete I simply clicked on the scanner in Explorer and started scanning. It cropped to the proper area, asked me where to save the scan and that was it.
I still wanted to get the drivers installed into Snow Leopard, I figured that perhaps I did not update the drivers when I did the installation. Sure enough when I went to the Canon website I found that the drivers I had installed were out of date. Wait, I had to manually go there and look, Windows prompted and asked me about drivers. Then the Canon website navigation approach was more complex than needed. One could see on the download page that there were four things to download; they were not available as one download. When one clicked on the link, it actually spawned a new window via Java so that one could accept the user agreement, then download it. However it also navigated you aware from the page, so I had to keep going back to it. Not very fast, not an Apple issue, a Canon issue.
After that I figured I would read through the documentation for the things I downloaded to see what I needed and what was superfluous. So I opened up the read me files. The one for Easy-PhotoPrint EX was not very helpful or even worth including. Here it is in its entirety:
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Canon Utilities
Easy-PhotoPrint EX Version 3.0.5 for Mac OS Instructions
Copyright CANON INC. 2007-2009
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CONTENTSBefore You Get Started
Introduction
About Trademarks
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Before You Get Started
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Thank you for using Canon Utilities Easy-PhotoPrint EX.
This product is a handy application program that allows you to create and print your own album, calendar, and stickers using the images you recorded with your digital camera. And furthermore, you can easily print borderless photos and so on.About Trademarks ——————————————————–
- Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in
the U.S. and other countries.
- All brand names and product names mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.Product Contents ———————————————————
This product includes the following items.
- Canon Utilities Easy-PhotoPrint EX
(hereafter called Easy-PhotoPrint EX)
Easy-PhotoPrint EX is an application program that allows you to create and print your own album or calendar, etc. using photos and other images.- ReadMe
This file. It provides important information about Easy-PhotoPrint EX.
I am still looking for the important information. I also had to do two restarts of the Mac as part of the process of installing the Canon drivers. Did I mention yet that doing it under the Windows XP environment under VMWare Fusion it simply connected and worked? The buttons still don’t function under either OS, but I can now scan under both environments. To make things even more fun, the auto cropping and color is different between the two.
Macintosh Scan (Click for full size):
Macintosh Scan - Click for Larger
Windows Scan (Click for full size):
Windows Scan - Click for larger