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‎07-09-2020 06:54 AM

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Product: HP Scanjet 4850
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Using HP Utility, how manually  USB connect HP Scanjet 4850 to old IMAC. Need address. Have no documents

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‎07-11-2020 01:05 AM

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Hi,

The HP Scanjet 4850 scanner was supported on Mountain Lion (10.8) and not supported on any later OS version, it is incompatible with 10.11.

 

You may try the 3rd party Vuescann application which supports your scanner for flatbed scans (but not transparency scans):

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp_scanjet_4850.html#technical-information

 

Shlomi



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‎07-11-2020 01:05 AM

HP Recommended

Hi,

The HP Scanjet 4850 scanner was supported on Mountain Lion (10.8) and not supported on any later OS version, it is incompatible with 10.11.

 

You may try the 3rd party Vuescann application which supports your scanner for flatbed scans (but not transparency scans):

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp_scanjet_4850.html#technical-information

 

Shlomi



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If my post resolve your problem please mark it as an Accepted Solution 🙂
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