Lexmark X502N scanning

Does anyone have the scanner working? scan to PC, scan to email, scan to FTP.
I have been trying to get this working for a week now with no success.
I may have to return this a get another MFP, any suggestions?
thanks

OK, here's what you need to do, based on the above people's comments and some minor research of my own:
1) Reinstall the Lexmark x500 series drivers (not sure if this step is necessary, but I think it is). You can find them on their website.
2) Go to the Terminal application found in your applications folder (or use Spotlight Command-Space Bar and type terminal, click on Terminal).
3) You need to enable your own root privileges (had to search around to figure out how to do this): type: "sudo tcsh" then Enter and then authenticate with your admin password when it asks you to.
3) Then, set the the driver's directory and its contents to root:admin (user:group) by entering the following into the terminal (and pressing enter):
chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/Lexmark/LexmarkX500MFP
(make sure to type Enter and then wait a bit).
4) then type "exit"
5) close the Terminal application.
It seems to do the trick even though Lexmark's own tech support had no solution:
"I really do apologize for this inconvenience, our Product Engineers still working on it and we still don't have any updates. We will be posting it on our website once we have the driver. You can use Generic PostCript driver."
Thanks to Beerlao (above poster) for his troubleshooting this solution.
The lexmark utility does not work, however, so ink levels and all that stuff is not available.
Good luck.
Message was edited by: macguyincali

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