"Hemanth" <admin@techtalkz.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the good tip.. But i'm sure there will be hp drivers soon.

At least with respect to my scanners, HP stopped supporting them long ago.
There are not even drivers available for XP and, according to the HP
website, there will not be Vista drivers for them. I don't know how Vuescan
works under XP, but this may be an instance in which obsolete hardware can
run under Vista, but not XP.

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> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23tBN31HeHHA.4564@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> I've got a couple of old, but very serviceable, HP scanners (a 4C and a
>> IIcx) that are not supported in Vista and for which HP will not be
>> issuing an updated driver. I found a third-party program, Vuescan, that
>> has drivers for hundreds of scanners. Though it is marketed as a
>> stand-alone, i.e. it can scan to a file or a printer, I found that Vista
>> will use the Vuescan drivers when I try to install the old scanners and,
>> once installed, all the HP-specific software (Deskcopy, etc.), as well as
>> other programs that support scanning, e.g. Acrobat, Photoshop, Word,
>> etc., will work just fine.
>>
>> I have nothing to do with Vuescan, other than I bought the software and
>> I'm thrilled that it will let me get more use out of my old HP scanners.
>> Just thought I'd share this tip.
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