How to Set Up Your Mac Laptop for a New Scanner

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Want to email your daughter’s crayon drawing to Grandma? Upload your latest masterpiece to the Web? Show your best friend the pattern of your new wallpaper? A flatbed scanner makes it easy. Installing a flatbed scanner used to be one of the major headaches of the wired world. Not anymore. It’s easy to set up your Mac laptop for a new scanner.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Scanner
  • USB cable or Firewire cable
  • Mac laptop
  • Installation CD or downloaded drivers from manufacturer’s Web site
Step1
Check the manufacturer’s Web site for the latest scanner drivers and software. Often, the Installation CD doesn’t contain the latest drivers and software. If there is a newer version, download the installer and save it on your computer.
Step2
Assemble your scanner and set it up where it will be easy to plug it in and to attach the USB or Firewire cable to your Mac laptop.
Step3
Plug in your scanner and power it up. Do not connect it to your computer yet.
Step4
Run the installation program on your laptop from the CD or from the installer file that you downloaded.
Step5
Restart your computer.
Step6
Connect your scanner to the computer using the USB or Firewire port, depending on your available ports.

Tips & Warnings

  • Installing all the software for your new scanner will give you access to all of its features, but you don’t have to install all the bundled applications unless you want them.
  • These are general instructions that will work for most scanners. Where they differ from the setup instructions that came with your scanner, follow the manufacturer's instructions.

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