I have a MacBook Pro, running OSX 10.9.2, and last week I purchased a ScanSnap iX500, which is a great document scanner.

However, I prefer that it connect by wireless, and not USB. I set it up wirelessly and it worked fine, but when I shut everything down and booted up the next day, the MacBook did not see the ScanSnap.

Connecting the ScanSnap to a Wireless LAN (For iX500 or iX100) In ScanSnap Manager, you can configure settings for scanning documents. How to Configure Scan Settings.

I called tech support and they got it reconnected, but the next day the same thing happened.

I learned that if you right-click on the ScanSnap Manager icon in the taskbar, select Connect By Wi-Fi, then uncheck and then recheck 'Connect automatically to the last connected ScanSnap by Wi-Fi' it is the quickest solution to reconnecting.

It would be nice if it would do this on its own, but to this day it will not.

My Macbook Pro is set up as a desktop replacement here in my office, so I take it home every night, and come into my office the next day and reconnect to my monitor, keyboard, etc., and I where I have the ScanSnap placed is not condusive to using the USB cable.

Hope this helps if you are also having a connection issue with the ScanSnap iX500 connecting wirelessly to a Macbook Pro.

Thank you,

Dan of Troy

(No relation to Helen)

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Update Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information!

Since Apple’s new version of OSX – 10.6 aka Snow Leopard is released today, I thought I’d make this post so that we can share our experience using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it.

I haven’t found any indication that 10.6 is officially supported by Fujitsu yet, but I have seen mixed reviews online.

Update: Fujitsu has reached out to me and also posted on Twitter via their @ScanSnapIT account the status of Snow Leopard support. For ScanSnap S300M, S500M, S510M, and S1500, scanning is supported on Snow Leopard, but Quick Menu does not work and Scan to Folder currently does not work.

Fujitsu Customer Support has posted this bulletin listing the workarounds and support status. They expect it to be fixed “within 2009”.

This tweet by user @tedlandau makes it look like Snow Leopard is working with the ScanSnap:

However, I also came across this ars technica forum thread saying that at least one user has had problems scanning to PDF using the ScanSnap S510M.

I haven’t tried Snow Leopard myself yet and haven’t heard back from Fujitsu regarding their support for it, but have you had any experiences one way or the other with it? Leave your feedback in the comments.

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Update: Just came across another tweet from user @TaxMan45 saying that he chatted with Fujitsu Support and that the ScanSnap 510M is compatible with Snow Leopard, but not in Quick Menu mode.

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Update:There is an update from Fujitsu that the Snow Leopard fix will beready at the end of November.

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