Can't find a valid driver for HP Laserjet 3050 scanner

Barabba11 · ‎11-10-2021

Hi, I've lost hours trying to find a driver, I've tried all possible I've found around, old ones and so on. Sincerely I don't understand why HP is missing to install a driver for scanner, this is a professional product and it's essential for my office. I was using it under Win7 but after upgrading to Win10 I had the shocking news, no more works. Amazing bad!!

I have a HP PNP EWS Null on the USB devices and with this I have any chance to recognize and use scanner. What I can do??
Thank you

Repairatrooper · ‎11-10-2021

If this is the 3050 all in one, it reached end of life several years ago and as such, ongoing support is limited. You might be able to get the built in scanning for Windows to work but based on age, HP likley does not support it any longer.

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Barabba11 · ‎11-11-2021

Sorry to disagree with you man, the printer still in sale on some internet shops, it is a professional product and because of this it *should* be under support, as well HP is producting for it the cartridges.
The professional printer is supposed to serve for several years a client, we don't need such poor politics to involve clients to buy a new one just because Windows has become upgraded.

I still looking for a solution, someone was able to focring drivers but I can't repeat their procedure, I have no 64 bit WIA drivers available and I don't know where they had found them.

positiveguy1960 · ‎12-01-2021

I have the same issue. Did anyone ever find a 64bit driver for this printer? Even possibly a generic one. It seems awfully wasteful to just chuck the printer into the garbage can when it would otherwise work fine with current drivers. Not a good look for HP on being eco-friendly there if that's the case.

Repairatrooper · ‎12-01-2021

Unless this is a different model distributed elsewhere but not in Canada and the US, which is possible.

I was curious so I checked HP partsurfer and it shows and end of life as below

This product was also never marketed as Professional, this is a small office/home office product, at least in North America.

We are almost ten years past end of support life so do not expect any current development from HP on this model.

As stated at the beginning, might be something else sold in Russia under the same model name.

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cybericius · ‎01-09-2022

You can install the driver by following this video, but only for printing: Did it an hour ago and works fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbGWzpaLnYw

I am also looking for a solution for scanning. If not for Windows, for any Linux.

Thanks.

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