I have the weirdest experience with SANE - OSX, USB and a HP4470c When I unplug the USB, reconnect and execute some tests (stripped output):
------------------------- Macintosh:~ richardbakker$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0805, chip=rts8801/ rts8891) at libusb:004:003-03f0-0805-00-00 Macintosh:~ richardbakker$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0805, chip=rts8801/ rts8891) at libusb:004:003-03f0-0805-00-00 Macintosh:~ richardbakker$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0805, chip=rts8858c?) at libusb:004:003-03f0-0805-00-00 Macintosh:~ richardbakker$ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. Macintosh:~ richardbakker$ sane-find-scanner # No USB scanners found. ------------------------- I can reproduce this output by unplugging the USB and/or power and reconnect. I managed once to scan using PS CS4, second scan - "No devices found" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20090511/125f0c99/attachment.htm>