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HP5400c oddity
Authored by: peterholdn on Jul 29, '06 10:50:44AM

I figured what the heck. I did recently manage to track down the Tiger driver for my HP 5400c and got it working, but the idea of maybe using Image Capture was very attractive. VueScan and TwainSane do not list my scanner as supported.

So, even though this hint was a modification of the EPSON Scanner file, I figured I would try it and see what happened. I followed the directions exactly, and left the device name as "HP Scanjet 5400C Series" even though it was in a list of Epsons in the modified file.

After the save and restart, Image Capture does not see the scanner. Ah well.

But then I found that all the buttons on the front of the scanner, the "one-touch" feature that lets you scan directly into Photoshop, or email or directly to the printer, that have never been supported on the Mac, even when it was brand new and running under OS 9, suddenly came to life, and the Scanjet Button Manager Application suddenly works properly, and lets me configure all the buttons. Now the one-touch button auto launches the HP scanning software, and the various buttons work as the were configured -- features that supposedly were never supposed to work on the Mac at all, and which I long ago gave up on.

Still have to use the annoying HP scanner interface, but hey, new features!

If anybody has an idea to make it work with Image Capture, that'd be great, but thanks for the hint so far!

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