Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger+HP Scanjet 3400c howto: GREATNESS! :D

// August 10th, 2007 // Mac

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 Sane

2. install it in the same order too.
3.open your terminal and run this command

scanimage > 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 :D

37 Responses to “Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger+HP Scanjet 3400c howto: GREATNESS! :D”

  1. Pat Dietrich says:
    September 25, 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!

  2. mark says:
    September 26, 2007 at 12:43 am

    no problem anytime :)

  3. Jeremy Willden says:
    October 24, 2007 at 5:01 am

    Thanks for the info, this saved one more scanner from the landfill! 8-)

  4. Danny says:
    February 15, 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/

  5. mark says:
    February 16, 2008 at 3:02 am

    thanks for giving us updates :)

  6. serch says:
    March 6, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Thanks for this post. !!!!!!

  7. Pedro García says:
    May 10, 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

  8. Guilherme Trento says:
    May 15, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    doesn’t work on my MAC OS 10.4.11
    what’s wrong, somebodoy help me ?

    =\

    thanks !

  9. Javier Alcañiz says:
    May 18, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    doesnt works on 10.5 snif

  10. Sarah Flack says:
    May 19, 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!

  11. Adolfo Cota says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:21 am

    It is exist for mac OS 10.5?

    Thanks

  12. Dino says:
    May 29, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Works great for HP scanjet 3300C as well.
    Many thanks indeed!

  13. natalia says:
    May 31, 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!

  14. MacDaddy - Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard+HP Scanjet 3400C howto says:
    June 2, 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! . [...]

  15. mark says:
    June 2, 2008 at 5:07 am

    updated post at http://mark.quitoriano.org/mac/mac-os-x-105x-leopardhp-scanjet-3400c-howto/

  16. Natalie says:
    October 9, 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?! :(

  17. Davyd says:
    October 18, 2008 at 7:37 am

    not work not work!!! nothing shows up on the screen! help pliz))

  18. theotheoria says:
    November 5, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks a lot! 3400 works great! It’s wonderful, windows now is not needed!!

  19. Beverly Freeman says:
    November 13, 2008 at 6:49 am

    a02uk7pm9pun139x

  20. Jess Taylor says:
    December 6, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    for all those who cant get it to work, this command: scanimage –format tiff > test.tiff should really be: scanimage -–format tiff > test.tiff Thanks for the article, but you really should have caught that one.

  21. dom says:
    December 8, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    I can’t get the scan button to work only the overview

  22. Who Else Wants to Plug a Scanner into OS X » Bamtastic! says:
    December 10, 2008 at 2:39 am

    [...] came to the rescue as usual and showed me a post of MacDaddy (who happens to be my kid brother), TechThought and InsanelyMac about installing TWAIN SANE to keep [...]

  23. TOM says:
    December 13, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS NATALIE – IT’S ALL GREY!!

    HELP!!! ASAP!!!

  24. Roland says:
    January 3, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Fantastic. Worked first time on Mac OS X 10.5.6
    Thanks for making the instructions so easy to follow.

  25. milton says:
    February 4, 2009 at 7:27 am

    Hey great thanks to you, it works on 10.5.6

  26. Maurizio Rufini says:
    February 16, 2009 at 3:11 am

    You are simply the BEST!!!!!!!!

    Really thank’you.

    Maurizio

  27. Jeannette says:
    February 24, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    Thank you very much, it worked!

  28. jutter says:
    April 8, 2009 at 3:33 am

    thx so much! worked fine for me.

  29. Auto says:
    May 8, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Hello…

    Gotta love google, very neat stuff. Thanks….

  30. troop says:
    October 10, 2009 at 11:34 am

    the 3 downloads were not accepted and the image capture does not see the scanner or show the bar on the top of the image capture window…
    suggestions?

  31. mike says:
    November 8, 2009 at 12:59 am

    Scanner does the preview, then says “scanning” and dies. Any suggestions?

  32. mike says:
    November 8, 2009 at 1:00 am

    Oops – running Sno Leper on a MacBook with 2gb RAM.

  33. Mandy says:
    November 20, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Unbelievable!
    You are a lifesaver! Brought about 12 hours of bulk scanning home from work & couldn’t get scanner working.
    YOU GOT IT WORKING & HP NEED TO DEVELOP DRIVERS FOR MAC.

    ITS PPL LIKE YOU THAT KEEP THE TECH WORLD GOING ROUND FOR THE GOOD OF TECHNOLOGY NOT MONEY~!!!

    Thank you so much!

  34. Josh says:
    December 31, 2009 at 4:21 am

    Just to say, great! thanks dude!

  35. Margie says:
    January 23, 2010 at 12:08 am

    Hi. I was given a 3500c hp scanner but the person did not have the driver.
    I went to HP and asked if they had a driver for MAC X 10.4.
    No they said. Before I throw out the scanner, will your solution make the scanner work for me. Is it a driver?
    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
    Thanks.

  36. Cuautli says:
    February 5, 2010 at 5:51 am

    Holly shit! Thanks man, really. Worked like a charm.

  37. demon3 says:
    February 6, 2010 at 12:22 am

    i’m running osx 10.6.2
    and i’m getting “these programs were made for os 10.4″ message.
    any tips to help?

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