Scanner - HP Photosmart C3100 All In One

I had a 10.4 tiger and installed the above printer/scanner - worked fine and to scan just pressed the button - now have lion 10.7 and everything was moved over all all updates installed - printing works just fine but will not start scanning - any ideas? Thank you -

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Posted on May 8, 2012 2:16 PM

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May 8, 2012 2:50 PM in response to jsalm

On its web site for Lion compatible Scanner drivers, HP offers the following workaround since they have not yet produced HP based Scan driver software for your older model (I have the same problem):


People who need to SCAN & PRINT without a compatible driver from their manufacturer can use Apple's very basic "PRINT & SCAN" utility in System Preferences:



  1. Click the Apple menu (User uploaded file ), and then click System Preferences .
  2. Click Print & Scan (User uploaded file ).
  3. Click Scan , and then click Open Scanner .
  4. Click Show Details . The details of the scan display, including options to modify scan settings such as output type.Figure 2: Example of the Show Details scanning screenUser uploaded file
  5. Change any settings as necessary, and then click Scan .

The next window looks like this:

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Hope this helps 🙂


Message was edited by: Radiation Mac

May 8, 2012 2:58 PM in response to Radiation Mac

Thank you - i did this and got as far as open scanner and got this message - 'photosmart C3100 series quit unexpectedly.' - this also happins when i want to print something but there is a little box to check 'ignore' and once done the process works fine but it does not in the scan mode - tks again and any suggestions are greatly appreciated -

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