Using Canon Scanner with Windows Fax and Scan - is it possible?

[Peter R. Fletcher]

I have a Canoscan 5000S scanner, which worked fine under WinXP. I have
installed the latest Vista drivers and software from Canon's website.
The device is listed as a scanner under "Scanners and Cameras" and it
continues to work fine when accessed via Canon's Toolbox Application
or by third-party applications that use the TWAIN interface. However,
neither Microsoft's Fax and Scan application not the Photo Gallery
application (which I care much less about) recognise that the scanner
exists! This appears to be because the Microsoft applications want to
see a scanner with a WIA driver. Canon have produced WIA drivers for
their scanners in the past (though these have tended to be less
functional than their TWAIN drivers) but it is not clear from the
documentation on their website whether they think that the latest
Vista drivers include WIA support.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers (in the right order and
with the scanner disconnected!) and spent a lot of time Googling for
enlightenment. Unfortunately, VueScan, which looks as if it might
provide a solution for this problem for some Canon Scanners, does not
directly support or include a WIA convertor driver for the 5000S,
even though the VueScan program itself will communicate with the
scanner quite happily (presumably via its TWAIN interface).

Has anyone solved this problem, and/or can anyone authoritatively
state that it is not soluble without a new (and currently unavailable)
WIA driver from Canon. If the latter is the case, there are obvious,
though not very convenient, workarounds, and I can stop wasting my
time trying to find a solution!

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Sharon]

I am using Canon Pixma MP530 Print/Scan/Fax/Copier machine without problems.
All I did was plug the USB provided by canon into my machine running Vista
Ultimate and Vista automatically searched drivers.

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

Results seem to vary significantly for different specific scanners.
Others also seem not to have had problems with members of the MP
series under Vista. Just to clarify: can you confirm that your MP530
works directly (as a scanner) under Vista _with_ _Microsoft_ _Fax_
_and_ _Scan_ and/or with the Microsoft Photo Gallery application.

I am using Canon Pixma MP530 Print/Scan/Fax/Copier machine without problems.
All I did was plug the USB provided by canon into my machine running Vista
Ultimate and Vista automatically searched drivers.

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Guest]

I use a canon lide 35 and had to get the new tool box as you did.
To fax I use the tool box to scan and print to the fax printer it seems to
be working fine at this point

 

[Zweibel]

I use a canonlide35and had to get the new tool box as you did.
To fax I use the tool box to scan and print to the fax printer it seems to
be working fine at this point

Is there any way of getting this scanner to run under Vista 64?
There appear to be no drivers on Canon's webpage.
thx

 

[Guest]

I have a Canoscan 5000S scanner, which worked fine under WinXP. I have
installed the latest Vista drivers and software from Canon's website.
The device is listed as a scanner under "Scanners and Cameras" and it
continues to work fine when accessed via Canon's Toolbox Application
or by third-party applications that use the TWAIN interface. However,
neither Microsoft's Fax and Scan application not the Photo Gallery
application (which I care much less about) recognise that the scanner
exists! This appears to be because the Microsoft applications want to
see a scanner with a WIA driver. Canon have produced WIA drivers for
their scanners in the past (though these have tended to be less
functional than their TWAIN drivers) but it is not clear from the
documentation on their website whether they think that the latest
Vista drivers include WIA support.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers (in the right order and
with the scanner disconnected!) and spent a lot of time Googling for
enlightenment. Unfortunately, VueScan, which looks as if it might
provide a solution for this problem for some Canon Scanners, does not
directly support or include a WIA convertor driver for the 5000S,
even though the VueScan program itself will communicate with the
scanner quite happily (presumably via its TWAIN interface).

Has anyone solved this problem, and/or can anyone authoritatively
state that it is not soluble without a new (and currently unavailable)
WIA driver from Canon. If the latter is the case, there are obvious,
though not very convenient, workarounds, and I can stop wasting my
time trying to find a solution!

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

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/Peter R. Fletcher/ said:

I have a Canoscan 5000S scanner, which worked fine under WinXP. I
have installed the latest Vista drivers and software from Canon's
website. The device is listed as a scanner under "Scanners and
Cameras" and it continues to work fine when accessed via Canon's
Toolbox Application or by third-party applications that use the TWAIN
interface. However, neither Microsoft's Fax and Scan application not
the Photo Gallery application (which I care much less about)
recognise that the scanner exists! This appears to be because the
Microsoft applications want to see a scanner with a WIA driver. Canon
have produced WIA drivers for their scanners in the past (though
these have tended to be less functional than their TWAIN drivers) but
it is not clear from the documentation on their website whether they
think that the latest Vista drivers include WIA support.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers (in the right order
and with the scanner disconnected!) and spent a lot of time Googling
for enlightenment. Unfortunately, VueScan, which looks as if it might
provide a solution for this problem for some Canon Scanners, does
not directly support or include a WIA convertor driver for the
5000S, even though the VueScan program itself will communicate with
the scanner quite happily (presumably via its TWAIN interface).

Has anyone solved this problem, and/or can anyone authoritatively
state that it is not soluble without a new (and currently
unavailable) WIA driver from Canon. If the latter is the case, there
are obvious, though not very convenient, workarounds, and I can stop
wasting my time trying to find a solution!

I do not have an answer for you, but an observation...

Using the Canon MP130 here, Windows F&S also sees only the WIA driver.
But, it's listed as being "manufactured by Canon." Click NEW
SCAN|PROPERTIES|CHANGE, and take a look.

As you note, using the scanning from other applications calls the Twain
driver.