I first ran PE and it came up with the same familiar error message. I opened the lid of the scanner and tried again and it started to go and then hung as if the lock was on (it wasn’t). I put an A4 paper on the glass without closing the cover and it started to calibrate. I was then able to scan as normal.

I then tried Omnipage OCR which works via OSX but in OS9 and it worked too. I forget whther it wanted to calibrate or not.

So there is something funny about this whole calibration process.
I may add that I have had this scanner for 6+ years and have been using it continually for OCR and making jpeg/pdf via PE. This problem
began last week when I tried to test an Epson V300 I was thinking of buying from a friend. That was not a pleasant experience and gave rise to this problem. The quality of the scans on the Canon are far superior to the Epson on my computer. PE is great bundled software as is Omnipage for OCR.

The reason I was contemplating the Epson was because it does 4 slides at once without demounting them whereas the LIDE80 does one at a time and you have to demount it. So, I’m now thinking about the 8800F which does the same (4 at once) but what I’d really like to know is: does the OCR software (listed as Omniopage SE1) work uniquely through OSX?

http://www.canon.ca/english/index-customersupport.asp?pid=415

Note that there are TWO files needed – the driver, and CanoScan Toolbox. The link to download the driver is on the 2nd page of search results, when you select scanner, LiDE 70, Software & Drivers, and search. The driver file is named “lide70osx1213ej4.dmg”.

I’m having same problem.

I thought that it was not compatible with my iMac and i was about
to send it back! Then i found your instructions! :)

Thank you again

The scans looked terrible, but after that first successful calibration, I was able to calibrate it properly, with a full sheet of printed text on paper, and the cover closed. Then I saved the calibration settings in a new profile.

To answer someone’s earlier question about how to start ScanGear, where the calibration settings are: start the CanoScan Toolbox, click the “Save” button, check-off the “Display the Scanner Driver” option, then click the “Scan” button. ScanGear will open.

In ScanGear, click the Advanced Tab to see the calibration controls. Click the drop-down list (“Custom”) to add and save new calibration profiles.

I cannot recalibrate my scanner…

Please. thank you.

I am very grateful for all the help I get from people so generous in there time to share the problems they come across. It makes the small things that take a lot of time to sole so much easier and simpler

Thank you

When you say ScanGear, you mean the right box in the canoscan toolbox so, seattings box?¿?

I can not find in it the recalibrate options…

If not, i didn’t see anywhere the ScanGerar, and spotlight didn’t find it.

I am going crazy with it!!!!!

Thank you!!!

A little update: I recently formatted my computer and installed the new Mac OS X 10.5, “Leopard”. I just got my scanner working again, but it was a little different than last time. I could not get the thing to calibrate with the document cover closed. Open, with nothing on the scanner bed, it would calibrate, but then of course the images are totally overexposed and washed out.

However, with an 8.5″ wide document on the bed (as per Lynn’s suggestion), and with the document cover open, it calibrated, and looks OK. One can make manual adjustments to the calibration in the Advanced tab of ScanGear.

Cheers,
Brent