Windows 7 Scanning

[NEAXMAN]

Hello all,

This is my first post on the Windows 7 forum. My issue involves scanning. Currently, we have multiple Windows 7 Professional x64 based machines with (2) HP Officejetpro 8600 series printer/scanner/faxes. When installing the printers on each of the machines, I go through the control panel and add a new printer. Both printers are on the LAN. My issue appears to be with possible driver issues and scanning. We do not install any HP software other than the .inf driver when installing the printer. We can print fine, however through windows fax and scan it says that no scanners were detected. I have been trying to figure this out with no luck. Eventually, I would like to have a Windows Print Server and deploy printers through the server, but we are not ready for that. That is why I do not install any of the HP software.

Other than figuring out the scanning issue, how do you guys setup scanning in the business world?

 

[rclarke250]

Not all of the drivers are being loaded just using the inf file. There is a driver and scan application only you can download, it is about 30MB, try installing that one, and see what happens. Doesn't matter if you are later going to install a print server.

 

[2ffat]

how do you guys setup scanning in the business world?

We have a business scanner/copier/fax/printer. It will scan and send them via email or to our server or fax them. They provided drivers that I can install on the computers so they can use this as a scanner or fax or printer from the PCs. Surprisingly a lot of people still walk to the machine to use it as a copier or fax machine. They will also scan things and email it back to themselves instead of scanning it to their PCs.


James P. Cottingham
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[NEAXMAN]

Thanks for the replies. It does appear that the scan driver is not being loaded by the .inf file. I don't really like the Windows Fax and Scan method that much due to the fact that you can't save directly as a PDF. Currently we are using the Embedded Web Server to do a Webscan. I guess the method of scanning that I was thinking of isn't going to work for us which is LDAP or Active Directory integration with user accounts. I would like each user to be able to scan directly to their home directory. I see that HP does offer to scan to a network location but I don't want to have to setup a location for each person. Our printers seem to be more of the "home end" rather than business printers, like a Konica Minolta or other printers that has Active Directory integration. Thanks for the replies and let me know if you guys have anything better!

 

[zelgar]

I have this printer and you can scan to a PDF. Additionally, once you have the HP software installed, you can scan directly to a connected PC. Try installing the software from HP and you'd be surprised what this scanner can do.