First and main thing I want to apologize for my computer illiteracy which gives you a hard time.
I did not know what the difference between a console and a terminal is, also that "xsane" that I have used innumerable times means "sane" in the gui of the X Window System or X11 here !!!! ( I only guess the latter, probably I am wrong. )
So I logged in as root, used the xterminal " #xsane enter " and everything worked
It showed me "canon60:ugen0" as well and I even scanned a document to the monitor. The printer is not configured yet, I know I am expecting trouble there ! as it is BSD and not cups but I enjoy torturing myself ! Fetish
So I can not copy.
So actually I was: " Are you trying to run xsane as root while being logged in as a different user? That is probably the reason it can't open a display."
Thanks a lot,
borgibo