HP LaserJet 3030 on OS X Lion

[PrintDoc]

Have you tried using Image Capture in your Applications folder?

[jrfred]

Yes I have to no avail.  Image Capture recognizes no scanner, just my iPhone.  Of course my printer/scanner is actively plugged in via USB.  Thanks for looking into this.

[PrintDoc]

So sorry, I should have looked a this first. Lion only supports printing with this printer, not scanning.

[jrfred]

It seems absolutely amazing to me that Apple, by updating their operating system (10.6 to 10.7), obsoletes previous/prior hardward devices by virtue of not being able to utilize exisitng drivers??!!???!!?!?  I mean Lion hasn't been around that long, and now Mountain Lion is coming out this summer/fall; how many more devices will be obsoleted by this move?  If I had known this I would have stayed with 10.6 where the scanner was working just fine, and with 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger etc. etc.  Again, why do printers always work but scanners never do?  Sorry for the rant...

[PrintDoc]

This change happened at 10.5 to 10.6, which was, architechturally, a huge change.

[jrfred]

The scanner was working just fine all through 10.6, up to 10.6.8 which was the last update.  Then going to 10.7 it all stopped.  It amazes me that from 10.4 to 10.5 to 10.6 there was a lot going on there including the PowerPC to the Intel chip and it worked well through all of that but not 10.6 to 10.7??

[PrintDoc]

Yeah, that is strange alright.  You could try loading the Full Feature drivers for 10.5....

[jrfred]

At this stage I'll try anything.  Can you expain to me how to do that?  Thx.

[PrintDoc]

Oh, my.  When I looked on the product page (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=219&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=37805... there is only a Print-only driver!

You could try third party scan software like VueScan.  Sorry.

[jrfred]

Checked into VueScan and does not support the HP 3030 under Mac OSX.  :-(