Hp scanjet G4050 help scanning slide 35mm

[Zilvien]

I bought one week ago an HP scanjet G4050.I bought it to can scan old 35mm slides, I choose this model because it was written I could have scan 16 slide at the same time, but I can't find a software that can do it!

Please help me!

My operating system is Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

Sorry for my bad english, I'm writing from Italy.

Many thanks in advance for your reply!

[digvet]

HP says use their ICA driver from HP site but it will not enabel  Image Capture to do 35mm slides.  It looks OK but scanner will not execute a slide scan.  Instead use the App "Vuescan" by Hamrick.  The basic one is free.  I use the Pro one.  It costs a few bucks but basic one should be OK.  Use the 32 bit version and not the 64 bit version.  Only the 32 bit version will scan transparencies.  This is the only solution I have found for slides on the g4050.

 By the way I bought my g4050 in October for same reason as you did.  Worked great until Mavericks.  I am going to a Canon canoscan 9000F mark II. It works smoothly with Vuescan 64bit or its own software.  I really liked the 16 slide capabilty of the HP but Vuescan is not as good as HP software was before Mavericks so I am stuck with 4slides at a time.

[Zilvien · Accepted solution]

Sorry for my bad english, but I'm italian and my english is not very good! 🙂

I solved my problem, I "resetted" my mac, then I downloaded this driver

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4159&lc=it&cc=it&dlc=it&sw_lang=&product=3236...

and than I bought vuescan standard edition (because with the free one it didn't work) and now I can scan 16 slide in sequence!

I save them in 1200dpi and for all 16 slides it takes more or less 50 minutes, sometimes it seems that the scanner is stuck but I think the problem is that my mac is not powerful enough for the process of image reworking so it takes long time.

[digvet]

Sounds good.  Fits my experience as of now.  

[Frangelica]

I have a Macbook OS 10.8. I had some software from wherever that I don't remember but it worked well, until it crashed and I made the mistake of uninstalling it. I spent days trying to find something that would allow the the HP Scanjet G4050 to scan the 16 slides in the template holder individually. The currently offered driver to use with Image Capture won't separate the 16 slides. Eventually I downloaded the HP photo suite (Scan Pro in the Photosmart suite) that is available in the HP website as software and driver for OS 10.5. It works beautifully. I don't know if it would work on OS 10.9.

[digvet]

Yes the HP Scan Pro for OSX 10.5 does work with OSX 10.9.  Each slide can be individually optimized before running a whole batch, but one has to trial and error the buttons as little guidance is available.  Wierd that the OSX 10.8 one would not work with OSX 10.9.  Thank you.

[Frangelica]

Thank you for confirming this. I feel as though I have just been to the top of Mount Everest. I was distressed that my scanner on which I was depending was no longer going to work and that there is unfortunately no comparable scanner out there, at least not that I have seen. I saw all the posts by people who were frustrated and packing their scanner away. But I am not surprised that HP hasn't been supporting the use of this scanner on Macs, they don't seem to have a history of supporting Macs generally.  It was a "what the heck, what can I lose" moment that even made me try this. I would highly recommend that everyone store the download package away somewhere safe because there is no guarantee that it will stay up on the website.

As I posted elswhere, the drivers available for download on the HP website for OS 10.6 to 10.8 combine the HP drivers with Apple's Image Capture. The scanner will do some basic scanning but the 16 slide scanning or other multiple image scanning doesn't seem to work in that configuration, at least I couldn't get it to work and that is what others before me reported.

[30murray]

How did you get your G4050 to scan negatives on a MAC. HP is telling me it can't be done. I have been on the phone with them for a month.  Also can you scan 30 negatives at a time like it's advertised? Thanks

[30murray]

How did you get your G4050 to scan negatives on a MAC. HP is telling me it can't be done. I have been on the phone with them for a month.  Also can you scan 30 negatives at a time like it's advertised? Thanks

[30murray]

Were you able to Scan 30 negatives at a time? Did you get it to work on Mac? HP has now told me that these 2 things are not compatible. After one month of talking with them on the phone, this was their answer today.