How to install old scanner on Win7 machine?

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I have my old/dependable HP Precisionscan, is there a work around to install it in win 7 64bit ??

HP doesn’t show any drivers for same.

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Scanners are in the same category as printers it seems, especially those made by HP. In the past HP has been somewhat notorious for not supporting their H/W when a new OS arrives. I suspect, unless you use a VM or perhaps XP Mode (You would need Win 7 Pro or Ultimate for this) you might be out of luck.

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Thx superM;
I’ve heard about XP mode in win7, if I was to try —– whats a scenario to install.??

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See if this MS articlewill answer your questions. I personally have never used XP Mode.

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If you’re willing to spend $40, Vue Scan will support your scanner in Windows 7. http://www.hamrick.com/

Jerry

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If you’re willing to spend $40, Vue Scan will support your scanner in Windows 7. http://www.hamrick.com/

Jerry

I think Vue Scan still needs an HP driver, Jerry.

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I think Vue Scan still needs an HP driver, Jerry.

You can download a trial version before you buy to see if it works. I know It has solved the no driver problem for many scanners. I haven’t used it myself so I don’t know if it uses its own drivers or the XP drivers.

Jerry

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You can download a trial version before you buy to see if it works. I know It has solved the no driver problem for many scanners. I haven’t used it myself so I don’t know if it uses its own drivers or the XP drivers.

Jerry

If you check the list of supported scanners and click on the HP ones, you will see that it states it needs the HP driver. I agree, though, you can always download the trial version to be completely sure :).

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Hi Jagworld,

I have no direct experience with HP scanners, however when I went from XP-> Win7 I really did not want to give up on my Epson Perfection 1200U scanner. I eventually found reference to a work-around. It used a driver for a newer supported scanner(the EPSON Perfection 4990 driver in my case).

Maybe you can find another HP driver that Win7 likes that _will_ work for your scanner.
The method was basically;
-go get the newer driver (get 32 or 64-bit as required for your OS)
-unzip it to a handy directory, but don’t install with the setup file
-go to device manager
-plug the scanner into the PC, turn it on and wait for it to show up in “Other devices”.
-when the scanner shows up, right click->properties, hardware tab->properties, change settings, driver tab-> update driver, “Browse my computer for driver software”, “let me pick from a list of device drivers”, “Imaging devices”, “Have Disk”, browse to the directory where you unzipped the files
-ignore the warning that windows cannot verify the driver for your hardware
-the scanner identification in windows is incorrect, but all features do work.

It may take some playing around to find a compatible driver that is also supported in Win7, but it all depends how much time you want to spend trying to get it to work.

Good Luck!
brino

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You could also look for Vista drivers as these often work fine in win 7.

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I have my old/dependable HP Precisionscan, is there a work around to install it in win 7 64bit ??

HP doesn’t show any drivers for same.

HP PrecisionScan is software. Apparently, Win7 will probably support your scanner (hardware) with its generic scanner drivers just fine. If you want to take advantage of the features built into the HP PrecisionScan software that are missing in the generic Win software, you will need a driver for the scanner hardware.

I have an HP 7400C scanner; HP does not have 64-bit drivers for it. BUT, after a lot of digging (starting at the HP site) I was pointed to a 64-bit driver for my scanner (I named it
HP7360-PhotoSmart-Driver+_Win7x64_SF_CDA_NonNet_Full_Win_WW_130_140.exe; the original name started with “SF_CDA_”).

Just how old is your scanner? I seem to remember seeing drivers for 5400 model scanners… I’m not sure about earlier models. It takes a lot of digging, but you may find what you need if you persevere.

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This is an interesting thread. I have an HP 5200C, anybody found a drive that works with this scanner and Win x64? It does work fine in XP mode.

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Try using Irfanview, Adobe, or some other imaging software, to “acquire” the image. My HP scanner will work with Irfanview, Adobe, or with the HP software.

HP is twain compliant, so I would specify that it is a twain scanner. That should satisfy the driver requirement.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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I also use Vuescan for all my scanning needs. From my experiance it does not need drives for the scanners it has it’s own. I use it for my Epson Perfection 2450 Photo, Nikon 4000 and my HP scanjet 5400c. All of them work fine and the features of Vuescan exceed what I use to get with the manufactures software.

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There’s a trial (watermarked) version of VueScan @ MajorGeeks.com; I had considered using it for my Epson Precision 1200U (see above), but newer scanners & all-in-ones have better resolution at low prices, so I didn’t bother. Might try again with the driver listed above, though.

Zig

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This is a rambling response as I’ve struggled over the past two years with W7/64 compatibility issues, mostly lucking out with the scanning side, and I think that reading about my experience might provide some ideas for solutions. I am a fan of replacing the scanner, though I can understand reasons why not as well.

Vuescan is a competent solution if it works for your particular scanner. My big scanning challenge in moving from XP to W7/64 between 1 & 2 years ago was operating my Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED. This is a lovely scanner, but Nikon was not supporting W7/64. I found this thread and it worked for me:
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/44994-getting-your-nikon-coolscan-work-w7-x64.html
I was actually going to use VueScan and bought the licence prior to finding this link.

The reason I wanted to get the Nikon software working was we had done half of a major scanning project in it and there were subtle differences between the Nikon scan results and the Vuescan scan results.

Silverfast may be another alternative for higher-end scanners (does it support yours?), but it is expensive. It is considered the “best” scanning software, but I have been happy with the native apps that came with my Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED and my Epson V700.

I saw that the HP scanner in question has a requirement to have the original HP driver available when using VueScan. In my limited experience, both VueScan and Silverfast have their own drivers for the particular scanners they support, but, obviously, I have only looked at the Nikon and Epson products.

You can read about my whole project on my blog:
http://richardhess.com/notes/2011/11/05/personal-image-scanning-project/

With that said, in 2003 when I purchased an Epson 1660 Photo scanner, I never looked back and said goodbye to my SCSI HP scanner. I also said goodbye to my early, internal Nikon Coolscan. I sold the Epson 1660 only to help fund the V700, and it is currently running under 32 bit W7 Pro. The V700’s smaller siblings are relatively inexpensive and are fine scanners and may be the best route for you in the end. The last HP scanner I bought (Scanjet 5590 bought for its economical, slow, and inferior double-sided scanning capability) was less than stellar. It is now sitting on a shelf in retirement, replaced by a Xerox Documate 3115 (by Visioneer).

There are a bunch of decent scanners out there at much less money than before, but it seems that prices are going up again and we have lost the Nikon as a new product, though some appear on eBay. It depends on what you want to scan. I found that there was no one-size-fits-all scanner (although the V700 comes the closest), but each of these offered advantages:
Epson V700 all photo work except 35 mm (though some 35 mm was done
on that to improve throughput, running in parallel with the Nikon)
Nikon 5000ED almost all 35 mm slides and negatives
Xerox Documate 3115 a single pass, double sided scanner, a technology
that appears to me as the only logical choice for double-sided originals.
This was an entry level one and works well. Feed could be a bit better.
Brother MFC-J6510DW for items larger than 8.5 x 11 inches including a two-pass
scan of a painting that became the cover art for the “Hoofbeats” CD here:
http://marielynnhammond.com/music/discography/

While the XP Virtual Machine mode works, it is not a panacea. It takes a while to start on my i7 930 system. I do not like running it for frequent usage and it’s another machine that needs to be maintained with updates. I have several small CD printers (marketed under various names over the years) that did not make the move to W7/64 and did not work under the VM, either. I actually still run my 2003 XP machine in my audio studio when I need to print CDs, though this will be only through the current batch of blank media as I will move to inkjet printable and have bought two Epson Artisan 837s on sale–the most recent one landed in my house for $96 from Staples.CA using a coupon during a sale. That is my last major vestige of W7/64 incompatibility.

The major use of the XP VM is now Sony Sonic Stage which connects a mini-disc recorder for capturing old minidiscs direct over USB. I also have an old version of Visio, but that problem has now been solved by Libre Office’s Draw program which is now fairly competently opening Visio drawings.

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Google for VUESCAN That’s an excellent and not too expensive program. It allows to use the majority of old scanners under Win 7

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