I just bought one of these obsolete HP 4670 see thru scanners to do some play field scans. I took a chance that I could deal with the software issues.

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I'm not having much luck, so far.

1) On my XP PC, the software from the HP disk is not working correctly.

2) I'm trying this third party Vuescan software but it keeps locking the PC up which forces me to shutdown and restart.

3) I have a 2006 Mac Pro that will not accept the HP Mac disk, at all.

4) I still have a couple of my old 2001-2003 G4 Macs in the attic that I may dig out and see if I can go all the way retro and get the scanner to work that way.

Can anyone offer some advise on how to get this 4670 to working?

Does anyone have the Mac drivers for this scanner that you can share?

HP.com still has a couple of downloads for XP and Vista. But there is nothing there for the Mac.

I realize companies have to make a living and would like for us to throw all of the expensive items away and buy new every year but that ain't happening around me; I like to stretch my dollar.

Suggestions? Anybody?

TIA

Let me see if I understand. You just plugged a 4670 see thru on a Win 7 machine and did not have to install any software? At all?

It is starting to look like the 4670 scanner I bought may be defective and causing me problems. I know more after the holidays.

It light up. I managed to get one scan using the Vuescan software.

Now, either the scanner bar moves down to scan and gets locked at the bottom which requires me to unplug the unit and the bar will return to home position.

Or when it scans a document all I get is a black screen.

I get the black screen with both Windows software and the Vuescan software.

I should add that the light inside the scan bar does light up.

It is a fair question, and yes, I have the document placed correctly. It is My Computer > Control Panel > Printers and Scanners (something like that) > click on scanner icon and hit scan.

Oh shit. I forgot about this post

THe scanner I bought was bad from the seller. He gave me back all of my money including shipping. And then I bought another see-thru scanner. It works.

But since it will not work with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 I dug one my old G-4 Macs from the attic and installed the disk software to that old Mac. I knew there was as good reason to not get rid of that old G-4. I just don't like playing these computer makers planned obsolescence games. Especially when HP still keeps the Windows software available for the PeeCee but buries the Mac software somewhere where it will never be found.