HP scanning broken under Leopard

[Kevin Callahan]

I just installed the "new" 9.7 update and scanning appears to work  
fine for the HP C4280 All-in-One we got for FREE with a new iMac 24

The installer app is dates October 19/2007,   
HP_Installer_PSC4200_v9.7b.dmg

K

On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:

> on 2008-01-29 11:37 AM, Kevin Callahan at kcall at mac.com wrote:
>
>> After perusing the HP site, I  saw somewhere that said they would  
>> be updating
>> their drivers for scanning support sometime before the end of the  
>> year (2007)
>
> They've been rolling out version 9.7 for all-in-ones, officejets,  
> etc.,
> slowly, printer by printer, for several months. Just put an alias on  
> your
> desktop to your printer's HP driver page, and check it every couple  
> of days
> (when it shows up, it will claim to have been available for a couple  
> of
> months). My home printer finally got the 9.7 treatment a few days ago,
> claiming to have been released in October. My wife's office printer  
> hasn't
> been hit yet.
>
> With HP, you need to practice patience. I bought one HP printer at  
> Staples a
> few years ago. It said on the box, "works with Mac OS X." A working  
> Mac OS X
> driver became available for it more than a year later. But I still  
> buy HP
> printers, because the hardware is great (if a little brittle, as all  
> the
> plastic printers are), and I've always been able to find a way (via  
> CUPS or
> otherwise) to get them to work.
>
> --
>
> Bill Cheeseman - bill at cheeseman.name
> Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
> www.quecheesoftware.com
>
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