Hp LaserJet 3050 scanner wont work....help!!!!

all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.

whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"


i don't know what to do.

plrease help


--
finger

The message usually means that windows does not see the scanner, or the
scanner uses an OEM driver instead of built in windows support. There may
also be a problem that is caused by the scanner driver not being installed.
A possibility is to use the trial version of Viewscan from Hamrick Software
to see if the scanner works with it.


"finger" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:7aa36f0ba7a72bd24f1a9c89790d1e00@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
>
> whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
> TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"
>
>
> i don't know what to do.
>
> plrease help
>
>
> --
> finger

On Aug 17, 10:01*pm, finger <gu...@unknown-email.com> wrote:
> all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
>
> whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
> TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"
>
> i don't know what to do.
>
> plrease help
>
> --
> finger

Works fine for me on my Vista 32 bit machine, but not on x64. Which
version have you got?

In article <7aa36f0ba7a72bd24f1a9c89790d1e00@nntp-gateway.com>, Finger
wrote:

> all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
>

Do you mean if you push buttons on the device or if you use controls in
Windows

> whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
> TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"

This, for me, has meant that Windows is not seeing my scanner.

You have not said what version of Windows you are using -- VISTA one
assumes but which version? Home Basic, Home Premium, Business ... or
Ultimate?

This is important because the Home versions do not contain the scanning
and faxing utility of the other versions of VISTA.

Please give answers to these questions since I don't understand how you
can fax or copy without using the scanner yet you say you get an error
message when scanning. Or are you successfully scanning and getting the
error message?


Hugh

Windows XP Service Pack 3 build 2600 VAOS Off Line Reader 6.3 build 1

Hi.... I am experiencing the same thing. Only scanner that doesn't work after
I install the newest service pack from Vista. Mine is Home basic. Before this
morning update everything was working just fine



"huwyngr" wrote:

> In article <7aa36f0ba7a72bd24f1a9c89790d1e00@nntp-gateway.com>, Finger
> wrote:
>
> > all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
> >
>
> Do you mean if you push buttons on the device or if you use controls in
> Windows
>
> > whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
> > TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"
>
> This, for me, has meant that Windows is not seeing my scanner.
>
> You have not said what version of Windows you are using -- VISTA one
> assumes but which version? Home Basic, Home Premium, Business ... or
> Ultimate?
>
> This is important because the Home versions do not contain the scanning
> and faxing utility of the other versions of VISTA.
>
> Please give answers to these questions since I don't understand how you
> can fax or copy without using the scanner yet you say you get an error
> message when scanning. Or are you successfully scanning and getting the
> error message?
>
>
> Hugh
>
> Windows XP Service Pack 3 build 2600 VAOS Off Line Reader 6.3 build 1
>
>

"finger" wrote:

>
> all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
>
> whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
> TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"
>
>
> i don't know what to do.
>
> plrease help
>
>
> --
> finger
> Did you ever get your scanner to work? How? Mine has the same problem and asks for a CD to install it. We don't have a CD.

You can download the software from HP.com
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"kathyt" <kathyt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "finger" wrote:
>
>>
>> all functions work perfectly, printing, faxing, and copying.
>>
>> whenever i try to scan this message pops up: " There is no
>> TWAIN-compliant device installed. please install one and try again"
>>
>>
>> i don't know what to do.
>>
>> plrease help
>>
>>
>> --
>> finger
>> Did you ever get your scanner to work? How? Mine has the same problem
>> and asks for a CD to install it. We don't have a CD.