Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger+HP Scanjet 3400c howto: GREATNESS! :D
UPDATE:
Scanjet 3400cc installation for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard howto
This is a mini-howto make your scanjet 3400c works on Mac, many thanks to HP for not making drivers for HP (”Thanks HP for wasting my time!”). Anyway i was hunting for a scanner last week and i got this from my brother’s house which is from my dad’s office. I suddenly had time to install this scanner(for documents sake) or rather i need it that’s why i made time for it, i plug the USB to my old school lappy apple titanium and it did nothing, so i go directly to HP’s website to look for drivers, oh boy how come im not surprise they didn’t create any drivers for Mac. So i search the net and saw this monlog blog from netherlands and saw this article(nope i don’t speak their language there’s babel fish for that). You can read his blog if you want or look at my procedure how to do it.
anyway to make this long story short here’s the howto:
1. Download the ff.
libusb
Sane Backend
Twain Sane2. install it in the same order too.
3.open your terminal and run this commandscanimage > test.pnm
or for tiff file:
scanimage –format tiff > test.tiff
* if that doesn’t work, you have problem with your $PATH so refer to monlog’s 4th direction.
4. run image capture and load SANE by going to Devices > Browse Devices
Now you’re finished and you can use your scanjet 3400c on Mac Thanks for reading i’ll be here all week 
Tags: 3400cc, mac os x, mac os x 10.4.x, mac os x tiger, powerpc, scanjet 3400cc
September 25th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Thanks sooo much!!! I didn’t have to buy a new scanner… the old girl (3400c) is back to life!!
thanks again!
September 26th, 2007 at 12:43 am
no problem anytime
October 24th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Thanks for the info, this saved one more scanner from the landfill!
February 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
This is great, I thought I check one more time before getting rid of the scanner, good to actually use the old thing again.
I got all the files and have it working under 10.5.2. I got more recent files from here http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/
February 16th, 2008 at 3:02 am
thanks for giving us updates
March 6th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Thanks for this post. !!!!!!
May 10th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Sorry, I don’t speak english but is great. Fantastico, funciona perfectamente, yo uso mac os 10.4.11 y me ha funcionado perfectamente, gracias. Thanks
May 15th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
doesn’t work on my MAC OS 10.4.11
what’s wrong, somebodoy help me ?
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thanks !
May 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
doesnt works on 10.5 snif
May 19th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Thanks so much! I was lent this scanner to scan some photos last minute and was very disappointed when I couldn’t find Mac drivers on the HP website. A saving grace…. thanks again!
May 29th, 2008 at 2:21 am
It is exist for mac OS 10.5?
Thanks
May 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Works great for HP scanjet 3300C as well.
Many thanks indeed!
May 31st, 2008 at 4:21 am
mmm, yeah, i dont speak english very well either,
the instalation of the 3 sources went well, but then, at Terminal, i get the error you were talkin’ about.. that $PATH thing.. so, i dont know what is —refer to monlog’s 4th direction —-
what does that means?? does it have any solution? what should i do?
many many many thanks!
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:00 am
[...] This is an updated mini howto from my previous post Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger+HP Scanjet 3400c howto: GREATNESS! . [...]
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 am
updated post at http://mark.quitoriano.org/mac/mac-os-x-105x-leopardhp-scanjet-3400c-howto/
October 9th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I’m running 10.4 with the same scanner. I did all the steps properly but when it comes to scanning, nothing shows up on the screen, its just gray like nothing ever happened… help?!