Scanning a document to email

[7-se]

How do I link my printer to the Yahoo email system

so that I can scan a document and send it by email?

[RichAnt]

Hello 7-se,

Have you just tried it?  Maybe have the Yahoo email open, if needed. (primarily so you can watch for it to appear by clicking "Send/Receive.").  Emails are sent/ received through "The Cloud."

First you need to "Enable" the "Scan to Computer" on the printer.  Below is a list provided by HP EXPERT MODERATOR Greenturtle.

1. Click on the printer Icon (on your desktop) and it will bring up the HP Printer Assistant.
2. Under the Scan menu, there is a Manage Scan to Computer, click on that.
3. Make sure that you "Enable"  Scan to Computer. Also make sure the tab "Automatically start Scan to Computer when I log on to Windows" is checked if you want to make this feature permanent.  (You may find it is already Enabled.)

 To send a scan, (as I see on my 5660, on the front control panel):  touch Scan > Email > Continue (if you have your personal Yahoo email address entered) > touch Document or Photo > continue.  It eventually shows up in my MS Outlook inbox, as an attachment in an email from the computer. 

Find the printer's email address in the illustration below.  Click on the icon and it lists the email address which you should have already created during setup.  Make it similar to your personal email address.

In order to email directly to one of your email recipients,  you see during the above steps you can add more  email addresses to the computer  as you wish.  (it's pretty cumbersome - I would do two steps - email to self; forward).

I am not an HP employee, hoping to find answers to queries.  Good luck.

Here is the link for the User Guide and the HP Support page for the 5540, from which it came.  Save for reference.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04762607  User Guide

The guide comes from below link. 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-envy-5540-all-in-one-printer-series/5447939/model/5447940/dr...