HP 4100 scan jet and vista

[flippin]

i don't know where to post this but this seemed like the best place. but i apologize if i posted in the wrong forum.

I was looking if some one could help me with getting drivers for my HP scanjet 4100 scanner. when i had XP i could just plug it in and it would work. but i heard that hp doesn't support vista. but i bet you guys have had the same problem and you found an answer.

so do any of you know how i can fix this because i would really like to be able to scan in my doodles

[HellboyOne]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie ... tnG=Search

[flippin]

I did google before i posted here.

fun fact : google"HP scan jet 4100 driver for vista" and my topic in this forum is the top result

[tylerdurden]

I think this message from HP's website is pretty definitive:

"We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Windows Vista support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Windows Vista.
If you are using the Windows Vista operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Windows Vista. HP has numerous products on the market that support Windows Vista."

I mentioned such a phenomenon when I responded to the Mustek sticky at the top of the Tech forum page. Manufacturers switch off tech support after a certain amount of time, and they generally pull the plug when continuing development is a losing proposition. Like dot matrix printers and floppy drives, there comes a time when companies realize developing and supporting an increasingly obscure product doesn't make sense to their bottom line.

In as few words as possible: Lose the Vista, lose the scanner, or get a Mac (OS X accepts any scanner that's TWAIN compliant; that's how my Epson Perfection 1250 survived for 7+ years). There's no Windows workaround for Vista, and you can safely assume nobody's really working on one.

[flippin]

no money for a mac... may just llok around for a new scanner damm lazy ass HP programmers

[tylerdurden]

It's not laziness, it's profit.

I said something along these lines to the Mustek users who moved onto Vista and their scanners stopped working: Why would a multi-billion dollar company like HP be interested in supporting an old-ass scanner when you could be buying a new one? They spend a bucket-load of money investing in R&D, production, and software support for one product. If they keep paying the software developers to support scanners their factories no longer make, they'll eventually lose money. (Those programmers fetch a big paycheck, y'know. If you program for the likes of HP and you're getting paid circus peanuts, you did something wrong.)