The Scanner... Again...

Well. My scanner seems to be cooperating with Image Capture, at least... Perhaps it was a case of turn-off-leave-off-turn-back-on-after-a-week. Perhaps. I also had a computer update and restart, so that might have helped. In any case, the darn thing is working again.
It seems to be working in Preview, as well.
Now we'll check System Preferences...
Yep. I think the software update fixed it.
See, I feel slightly ridiculous for not bothering to restart my computer. I don't know that it would have helped, but I still should have checked. Shows you what sort of tech-savvy person I am.
Oye.

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Well, dear readers, it would seem that Image Capture was only to the rescue for a little bit. My printer is bloody well determined that I not scan anything, which is making life kind of difficult right now. In a vain attempt to force the thing to work, I opened the scan functions in Preview, System Preferences, and Image Capture... All to no avail. If any of you have found a new fix, by all means share it...

***Please see the next post.

Image Capture to the Rescue

For all of you that have been struggling to get your scanner working, try using Image Capture. Many sites advocate using System Preferences "Print and Fax" pane or Preview's "import image" function, but neither of those worked for me. If you have your new drivers from the apple site installed (see previous post for link), this should work for you. If it doesn't, well, try the others, then sue HP.
To find Image Capture, I used spotlight. Some of you clever people might have it's actual location, but I don't. It will ask you to select a device, the tells you to press "scan" to start scanning. Unlike Preview and the print and fax pane, this one actually recognised the scanner, and started scanning right away.
I was pleased.

Note: the page that told me about Image Capture can be found here.

One more thing- You will probably want to uncheck the "Detect Separate Items" box.

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