Found driver for HP scanner (3300C) that works on Vista 32-bit

[GreenGhost]

If you have an older HP scanner you checked HP's website and probably found a message telling you to go and buy a new one, as HP would not release drivers for Vista. I finally found something that worked for me, just searching google.

I don't know these websites or the origin of the files, so be careful. There's an .exe inside, don't know what it is, don't run it.

I found this thread:

http://forums.driverguide.com/...ead.php?t=26671&page=1

which leads to this download link:

http://members.driverguide.com...l.php?driverid=1211600

You must go through some 10 pages of ads to get to the file. I saved it, fixing its extension to .zip, scanned for viruses, and checked the .inf. Looked ok, very old dates in these files, weird.

So I removed all the failed crap (drivers, HP VueScan, etc). Plugged the scanner, and Vista immediatelly tried to find a driver and failed. It created the entry in the device manager, where I used "Update driver software" and specified the folder with the .inf file. No errors.

I tested the scanner using Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Paint, it worked well. Picasa previewed, but got stuck when asked to scan. I don't have any better sofware installed right now, I'm positive it will work.

Here's a section of the .inf. Maybe these files will work for these models, too. I think some models pre-date the PC era, I had a SCSI 4p on an HP 9000/735. Maybe some museum wants to have it in working order 🙂

Here's the list in case someone's searching.

SCSI\HP______C5110A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5p"
SCSI\HP______C2520A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6100c ??? 4c/3c"
SCSI\HP______C1130A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4p"
SCSI\HP______C2570A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3p"
SCSI\HP______C2500A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIcx"
SCSI\HP______C1790A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIp Vista"
SCSI\HP______C1750A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIc"
SCSI\HP______C5190A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5100C"
SCSI\HP______C6270A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6200C"
SCSI\HP______C7670A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300C"
SCSI\HP______C7190A__________3.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0101.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4100C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0201.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6200C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0401.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0601.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 6300C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0701.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300C/5370C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0105.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4200C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0205.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0305.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4300C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0405.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3400C"
USB\Vid_03f0&Pid_0505.DeviceDesc = "Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2100C"