Anybody have a working HP Scanjet 4470C scanner?

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Peabody

I inherited one of these from a friend, but it has no power supply,
no CD-ROM, just the scanner. I rigged up a 12V power supply for it,
and a couple lights come on, but it's not clear the thing is still
alive. Before installing the 60mb of software I found at HP, I'd
like to make sure the scanner isn't obviously DOA.

Without connecting it to the computer, when I just power up the
scanner, I get two LEDs - the Power Save LED on the left, and the
Color indicator on the right. There's nothing in the little LCD
window. Pushing the Power Save toggle button has no effect - the
LED stays on.. The same is true with the Color/B&W toggle button.
No other buttons have any effect.

Is this normal for a powered-up but unconnected 4470C? Is there any
kind of stand-alone powerup self test I can make it do?

Thanks for any help.
 
Why don't you download a trial version of Vuescan from www.hamrick.com.

I have a 4890C and recently HP made available a small executable that
installs just the drivers - it takes about 3 secs to install.

Now I can use my 4890 with Vuescan and Omnipage 16 WITHOUT the bloated
HP scanning software that doesn't work properly anyway.

If there are not specific drivers for your scanner from HP - try
downloading and installing the 4890 drivers.. just might work??

Good Luck
Bruce
 
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