Comments on: Snow Leopard favorite new feature: Effortless scanner/printer installs

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:36:41 +0000

After spending a week unsuccessfully trying to get Snow Leopard to recognize my CanoScan u1220n (which worked flawlessly under Vista, for Pete’s sake!) this seems like a rather cruel joke. “It just works” my ____!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:38:56 +0000

I tried this, but Preview or Image Capture does not seem to recognize my scanner. (HP scanjet 3670)

By: Meesh

Meesh — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:40:12 +0000

My iSight no longer works since I’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger. I’ve had to delete PhotoSmart because my HP F2120 printer/scanner no longer worked. I now use Image Capture to scan my docs (although PhotoSmart was much more efficient).

What can I do about getting my iSight to work again? I think there’s something wrong with the hardware altogether because I’ve tried 2 new webcams and I still get a black screen in PhotoBooth & Skype.

Any suggestions? (I’ve probably tried them all, LOL!)

By: Fred Hoffman

Fred Hoffman — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:07:11 +0000

I tried what you suggested, but Snow Leopard won’t recognize my HP 5500c scanner. Based on what I’ve seen on a number of web posts, this is a common issue.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:01:01 +0000

Garrick thank you so much for this… have been tearing my hair out trying to get my old Canon scanner to play nice with SL since the Canon driver stopped working. Preview works great.. whew!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:06:52 +0000

Now this was a life saver! I just bought a new Mac and all of a sudden my HP wouldn’t scan. Then I got the little message that the scanner couldn’t be initialized. You are right too by the way, HP software is not all that good. My scans are actually going faster with Preview. What’s up with that?

Thanks again!

By: Garrick Chow, senior trainer and evangelist

Garrick Chow, senior trainer and evangelist — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:51:46 +0000

Hi Michel,

I’m not positive which HP device the 2320 is, but if it’s the Color LaserJet series, it does look like Snow Leopard-specific drivers for it were released in an OS X update back in November of last year: http://bit.ly/cY3P10

Also, are you using HP’s scanning software, and have you tried using Preview or Image Capture instead? The point of my piece was that I was avoiding messing with HP’s software entirely because I’ve always found it so inconsistent, and am now using Preview or Image capture when I need to scan from my HP device.

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:04:02 +0000

This article is VERY misleading as snow leopard can actually PREVENT network scanning from being possible.

I was scanning perfectly across my home network using HP software to my 1 year old HP2320 printer/scanner. After upgrading to snow leopard, network scanning is NO LONGER supported. Neither HP or Apple seem to want to make any effort to update their drivers, and this for an 18 month old device. I find it an outrage.

I now have to keep an old macbook pro around running leopard to be able to scan.

By: Garrick

Garrick — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:02:27 +0000

Hey Steve,

In that lesson I’m actually using a Sony camcorder connected to the Mac via firewire. (If you have a similar old firewire camcorder sitting around, they make great hi-res webcams.) Unfortunately, Apple seems to prefer to embed their iSight cameras into their monitors these days, so you can’t get an external one through them anymore. Logitech does make this model for Macs: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/webcams/devices/4528

But I’m sure if you give it enough time and keep checking google, you’ll find someone who has a workaround to make your Orbit work with Snow Leopard.

By: Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:09:52 +0000

Hi Garrick (again),

I’m working through your Snow Leopard course one-by-one and getting a lot out of it.

I have a Logitech Orbit AF webcam that I have used the macam download to make it work in previous versions of Mac OS. With Snow Leopard I haven’t been able to make it work.

I’m thinking maybe its time to upgrade my webcam anyway. I don’t need anything better than what I had, but whatever I buy I want it to work flawlessly with Snow Leopard.

What webcam are you using in one of your Quicktime video lessons? If this isn’t the proper place to ask general questions, can you let me where best to ask such questions? Its just that I’m trying each of my devices and/or apps as I go through your course and some of my stuff isn’t working.

Thanks,
Steve