All in One devices

I have just purchased a Kodak ESP 5 All in One due to good reviews in Mac mags & The Gadget Show.
Unfortunately they did not mention that it is quite useless on a Mac. I installed it on my old Windows laptop to print some files, all great scanning software OCR etc.
Installed on my IMac, 230MB, and its just a driver. It prints ok but if I want to scan I have to use controls on printer so scan is full scan, no cropping, previews etc. Total waist, I know will have to use my laptop windows machine to do scanning and transfer to IMac. Why dont the magazines say this?
It would appear I would be better off using Imac money to buy a high end PC. Contacted Kodak who said I would have to get third party software. Appears that the Mac should be avoided by casual users & left to design houses etc.
Or have I missed something, ILife, Open Office wont scan, is there any FREE software available?
Any advice appri'

I think the error was buying a product not designed for Macs, I would return it. Before making your next purchase do a little due diligence to see if what you want is OS X compatible. This is simple if you are in a store, it will be printed right on the box. Kodak isn't exactly top of the line and despite their current advertising campaign (at least here in the US) the print quality is poor, supplies run out with over 40% of the ink left in them (meaning you're wasting over 40% of the ink) and they're not even OS X compatible.
Personally I'm a fan of HP printers and have had nothing but good luck with all of the printers I have connected to my iMac which include 2 wireless AIOs, a color LaserJet and monochrome LaserJet. Others on this forum have had great success with Canon, Epson and Brother AIOs.

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All in one devices wireless print & scan?

Hi,
Can I print and Scan wirelessly, without connecting the all in one device to the USB port on the air port express? I speak about the Canon PIXMA MP600R which has a 802.11g wireless interface. Theoritically yes but how is it in real life?
I will appreciate an answer soon becasue I need to buy such a device but I will not spend this money and it won`t work at the end with appologies from the Apple Store !
PS. I will connect the system with my iBook G3/600 which has no USB 2.0 that`s why I need to buy the MP600R and not the normal MP600, I had no answer from the Apple Shop here if a USB 2.0 device can work normally with a 1.1 equipped Mac, I will also appreciate an answer for that.
Thanks a lot,

Can I print and Scan wirelessly, without connecting the all in one device to the USB port on the air port express?
No. The USB port only supports printing to a single compatible printer. You can also read iFelix's user tip "Can I Scan?"

Work around for scanner on epson wp 4530 all in one device after Maverick update

Epson technical staff helped me find the solution to find the scnning function from my 4530 all in one device. Using "image cpature" command in "spotlight", find scanner in "shared" apps, then use the scanner function from there.
Before Maverick update, the scanner button light up in the 4530 device and I can scan from the window with the device. Now I have to work around to get the job done. Apple or Epson need to develop a new driver to recover this funtion.
KL

There's no need to use Spotlight for Image Capture.
Launch Image Capture located in your Applications folder.
Connect the scanner to your Mac whether Wi-Fi or USB.
Click the very small black box bottom left side of the Image Capture window.
You'll see this pop up menu: Connecting this (device) opens:
You can select a default app to scan (Image Capture) and select a folder from the Import To pop up menu on the right to save scanned files to.
If you need help with the Image Capture software, click Help from the Image Capture menu bar.
Mac Basics: Using a scanner

All-in-One Devices and Acrobat

I'm looking for recommendations for All-in-One machines that work well with Adobe Acrobat. While online reviews are nice, they rarely get into the kind of detail I need.
Here's the horror story. We recently purchased an HP Officejet J4580, because it had a sheet feeder and fax capability, as well as the ability to receive faxes and save them to my hard drive. However, the software running the sheetfeeder is extremely unreliable: it frequently ignore the pages in the feeder in favor of scanning the 'glass.' The TWAIN interface doesn't coordinate well with Acrobat, or any other program-- which is terrible, since Adobe enables me to scan both sides of front-and-back-sided documents and reorder the pages automatically.
So, I'd like to ask Acrobat users-- which All-in-Ones have served you reliably and efficiently in scanning documents?

Personally, I don't find most sheet feeders worth a darn. If you have a lot of scanning of documents a dedicated sheet feeder is worth the price of admission. The Fujitsu Snapscan 1500 has technology designed to detect misfeeds. However, it doesn't replace the need for a traditional scanner for books and other media.

How to print to HP PSC1110 All-In-One Printer connected to WinXP PC?

Hello everybody,
I would like to us an HP PSC1110 "all-in-one" printer connected to a Windows PC in another room.
The easy part: The printer shows up in the browsing window, under the correct Windows domain, when I try to add an "other Printer" device.
The difficult part: When I try to select the printer model from the list of HP printer models provided, it does not show up, although HP PSC 1110 is included in the list of supported printers.
I also tried the ESP HP-deskjet drivers, both old and new version. But those result in printer errors on the Windows PC.
BTW: Printing over the net works well from other Windows PCs!
Can somebody out there who had a similar problem before give me a hint how to set up printing to an HP "all-in-one" over the Windows-Network?
Thank you,
Detlef

Thank you for the detailed information. Maybe I should have added a few screenshots too.
The suggested procedure probably works for a HP Photosmart Printer. However, the PSC1110 is a "Printer, Scanner, Copier" all-in-one device. Unfortunately, this one does not show up in the menus, although it is supposed to be supported. I assume that only an USB backend is available, but no SMB backend.
Is this correct? Is there a workaround?
Thank you for your feedback
DC

Airport extreme base station with Hp 3210 all in one printer

Just bought and hooked up the above. Using with iBook G4. Still dealing with dial-up unfortunately, but got online just fine. When I tried to print on the above, it immediately dialed up when I hit "print". ?? What's going on?

I have a pretty old HP all-in-one (G55) printer/scanner/copier device. Plugging it into my AEBS seems to not let me print to it. I have the most recent driver from HP.
Do you think it's my setup, or is the AEBS somehow not compatible with the older HP devices?
No the problem is with the HP driver.
Try using the HPIJS drivers.
For those with the older base station.
Use the process outlined here:
HP Printers (and others) not on compatibility list and Airport Extreme Printing
http://tech.ifelix.net/1300.html
Also, is it possible to fax, scan, etc through an all-in-one device plugged into an AEBS?
No, not via the USB port.
Can I scan using my all-in-one when it is connected to the USB port of an Airport Express or Airport Extreme Base Station?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=610763&#610763

IPod Touch conflict with HP 6500 All-in-One printer...

Does anyone know of anyone who has an iPod Touch installed with an HP all-in-one printer and running under Windows 7 64 bit? If so I'd like to hear from them and see if I can pick their brains a bit. In fact, I'd like to hear from anyone who has an iPod Touch working with an HP all-in-one on a desktop system, no matter the OS.
Originally I tried to get them to work together under a 32 bit Windows 7 Premium build on an MSI G31M3-F V2 mobo but couldn't get the iPod and the All-in-One to work together. Either the iPod wouldn't synch or the printer would disconnect.
Yesterday I started with a Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit build on an Asus P5Q-EM mobo with just the HP 6500 All-in-One and the printer and all of its functions were working perfectly.
Then I plugged in the iPod, after having installed the newest 64 bit version of iTunes, and it detected the device but wouldn't complete the driver installation. I powered down the HP 6500 and the iPod installation completed.
I then turned the printer on and it appeared to work but the iPod wouldn't complete the sync process unless I turned the printer off.
Then I changed the drive letter of the HP all-in-one's integrated card reader from "E:" to "G:" and rebooted and it appeared that everything was working. I brought the scanner up but didn't actually scan anything but, still, no disconnect messages. Finally, success I thought. Silly me...
Today my daughter tried to send a fax from the computer. It started the scan, stopped after only partially scanning and said that the printer was disconnected.
She then rebooted and tried to scan a photo and it did essentailly the same thing -- a partial scan, froze, and then reported the printer offline.
Uninstalling the iPod Touch device resulted in the printer coming back online and all functions working perfectly.
There is clearly a conflict at the device/driver assignment level and I don't know if its even anything that I can fix.
This should not be this hard.
Has anyone any experience with the iPod Touch running on a desktop that also has an HP All-in-One device installed?

Finally installed a completely new OS and then, before doing anything else, installed iTunes and connected the iPod. Installed everything else with the HP printer being the very last thing.
Wa La... Worked as advertised...

HP PSC 2510 "All in One" prints only

When I installed 10.4, the other features of the all in one stopped working. For months I have been struggling with HP and have been told several times that new sortware was on the way. I recently installed their Image Zone software and it looks hopefull; however it also will not communicate with the device. So as of now, I have an All in One that is a One in One - has anyone had any luck getting their all in one device to do anything other than print?

Hi everyone!
I have just upgraded my iMac to Tiger (and subsequently 10.4.3)... and suddenly I couldn't do anything with my psc 2510.
I tried downloading the latest drivers and software from hp, and installed it all, but it still didn't work, and when the "HP Printer Setup Utility" got to its last stage, it would beachball on me. That meant it was left with unfinished business, and returned to haunt me every time I rebooted my mac. Nightmare. And my psc still didn't work. (Ironically, I used the same software in the end - see below - so it must have been the order I did things that mattered)
Then I found this thread and I saw light at the end of the tunnel! Thanks!
Basically, I...
• deleted all of the files described in this hp document - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00441859&produc t=303770&dlc=en⟨=en
• installed the "Printing Only" psc installer from hp - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?dlc=en&lc=en&os=219&pro duct=303770&lang=en&cc=uk&softwareitem=mp-35188-1
• set up my psc using Tiger's "Printer Setup Utility", by clicking "Add" in the toolbar, then selecting my psc in the window that appears (ah the wonders of Bonjour!). Because I'd just intalled the "Printing Only" driver, it used that, which is fine. Then I clicked "Add" and my psc was set up for printing
But I wanted more than printing! As do you, Chowser. So, then I...
• downloaded the hp "All In One Installer" from here - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?dlc=en&lc=en&os=219&pro duct=303770&lang=en&cc=uk&softwareitem=mp-32709-1
• ran the installer. Now, I know you probably won't have much faith in this working, but trust me, it does. Or it did for me anyway.
• once the new drivers and "Image Zone" software were installed, the HP Printer Setup Utility opened up.
• so, I went through the steps for setting up my printer. I got to the last step, and normally when I tried this before, the utility would crash after I clicked the "Next" button. BUT, for some reason, it all worked. My printer was fully set up! And, better still, because the utility has done its work, it doesn't start up every time I reboot.
So, now my psc works again. Hoorah! I just hope that it'll work for you guys too. Just give it a try - following my steps exactly... if it worked for me, then it should work for you too, right?
So give it a try, and I wish you all the very best of luck in getting it to work... Come back and tell us if you solve it!
Happy New Year!
MadMacZed

What all-in-one should I buy?

I hardly ever print or scan anything any more, but sometimes it's essential (monthly accounts, etc). I'd say I print something once or twice a week.
I need an all-in-one that works perfectly, is cheap, looks nice, doesn't use gallons of ink, has a driver that works with Leopard, and in short presents absolutely no problems of any kind and does the job without letting me down.
Is that asking too much? Aren't we in the 21st. century?
I'd welcome recommendations.

I bought a Cannon MP530 several years ago for my home computer and was so impressed with it I bought another for my office. Like you, I infrequently need to color print, scan, photocopy or fax anything (maybe once per week), but when I need it, it has worked flawlessly. It’s also dirt simple to set up and use. That’s especially good because my memory isn’t as good as it used to be, but this all-in-one interface is so user friendly, I’ve never had a problem, even if it’s been weeks since I last scanned something.
I had my assistant (who is strictly a PC user) make scanned copies with my Cannon using a Mac. Within a half hour, she was back with the several dozen scanned copies. Like that Geico caveman commercial says, ‘It’s so easy, even a PC user can do it.’
A colleague bought a newer version of the Cannon MP series and he really likes it too. I think mine looks pretty good, but the new one looks even better. And I think the newer one is even easier to use than my older ones.
I don’t think there are many cheap inkjet cartridges for any type printer, but I’ve replaced each of my color packs only once and I think I’ve replaced the black cartridges twice in each of my all-in-one devices.
Both my Cannon machines worked flawlessly with Tiger and when I upgraded to Leopard.
This is the only all-in-one I’ve used so I can’t give you comparison information. I selected this one based on a Consumer Reports recommendation.
From what I’ve seen on these forums, a lot of people seem to have problems with HP devices using a Mac. The only glitch I’ve had is that the phone line is shared with my home phone and if someone calls, the fax feature answers it. So I leave the phone line to it disconnected until I need to fax something or I know someone is going to fax something to me. I think the manual tells how to share a phone line with the fax, but I haven’t bothered to read it yet.

Internet connection instable on only one device, via airport extreme

Situation
I have the strangest situation. In my setup, every device connects just fine with the WLAN. Yet, one iphone 4 is for periods of time losing internet connection whilst still connected to the WLAN.
Setup
I have my airport extreme connected to a Zyxel modem and set my airport extreme to bridge mode. I turned the WIFI off for the modem, and ON for the airport extreme.
All but one device have no trouble connecting
The following devices operate just fine:
Mac Pro [wireless]
Playstation 3 [wired into airport extreme]
Playstation Vita [wireless]
HP laptop [wireless]
my girlfriend's iphone 4
The problem occurs solely on my iphone 4.
Oddities
While me and my girlfriend have the exact same phone (not jailbreaked) and both just the latest version of iOS, hers works fine while my phone has this connection trouble.
The connection with the WLAN is never lost; I can communicate with other devices on the same LAN, it's just the internet that's not working for periods of time.
Workarounds
If I turn on the WIFI-settings on the modem directly to create another WLAN and connect my iphone to that network, the connections is stable again. The problem is just that the range of my modem is not as good as that of the airport extreme.
While it works fine in most of the house, in the bedroom my iphone receives 1 bar of signal. It however receives 3 bars on the airport-extreme network.. but as mentioned: with instable internet.
Help required
I can't seem to locate what the problem is. It's easy to suggest it's my iphone that is somehow broken, but then it's fairly odd that the problem is limited to only my airport extreme WLAN network. Yet, if the problem is with the WLAN network than why is it the only device that has trouble connecting to it.
Hopefully someone has a suggestion to what could be the problem and a way to solve it?

I have nearly the same issue. Using your template here is my situation.
Situation
I have the strangest situation. In my setup, every device connects just fine with the WLAN. Yet, one iPad Retina is for periods of time losing internet connection whilst still connected to the WLAN. Most often it happens on the YouTube app or downloading app updates.
Setup
I have my airport extreme connected to a comcast cable modem with no wifi (so airport extreme only).
All but one device have no trouble connecting (it's funny how close our situation is)
The following devices operate just fine:
Mac Pro 1 [wireless]
Mac Pro 2 [wireless]
Playstation 3 [wired into airport extreme]
Mac Air [wireless]
my girlfriend's iphone 4s
my iphone 5
Apple TV [wireless]
my iPad Retina (only issue)
The problem occurs solely on my iPad Retina.
Oddities
When the iPad is not working, all the other devices (phones included) work fine.
The connection with the WLAN is never lost; I can communicate with other devices on the same LAN, it's just the internet that's not working for periods of time.
Workarounds
My iPad is 4G so if I turn off wi-fi it works fine over 4g. NOTE: I HAD THE GENIUS BAR REPLACE THE IPAD LAST WEEK. NO CHANGE....
Help required
I can't seem to locate what the problem is. It's easy to suggest it's my iphone that is somehow broken, but then it's fairly odd that the problem is limited to only my airport extreme WLAN network. Yet, if the problem is with the WLAN network than why is it the only device that has trouble connecting to it.
Hopefully someone has a suggestion to what could be the problem and a way to solve it? BECAUSE I CHANGED OUT MY IPAD, I THINK IT MAY BE AIRPORT RELATED BUT CANNOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM EITHER.
....I feel just a bit better that I'm not the only one.

Anyone had any luck scanning with hp all in one connected on airport express usb bonjour

Can someone tell me if apple will provide any support for scanning device included in hp all in one printers when connected on airport with USB bonjour network?
From what I have read so far, it would seem that the only way to get a network printer to work decently is to use it with an airport extreme base station with an ethernet cable. The usb "way" of the airport express doesn't seem to handle any fancy utility like ink level, test page or scanning.
Anyone have a solution other than that of buying an airport extreme base station ?
Sorry for my english, i'm from québec Canada (french canadien)
Thanks for any help

Can someone tell me if apple will provide any support for scanning device included in hp all in one printers when connected on airport with USB bonjour network?
Apple receives the printer driver software from various manufacturers. So far, none of the printer manufacturers have chosen to include extra features in the "USB network" versions of the software. Since this is a user forum, none of us here have any knowledge about what future plans may be.
Your question really should be directed to the manufacturer of your all-in-one device. While we can't speak for Apple, it would be logical to assume that they would include this software shortly after it is made available by the printer manufacturer.
From what I have read so far, it would seem that the only way to get a network printer to work decently is to use it with an airport extreme base station with an ethernet cable.
That's correct. Another way of saying the same thing is that if you want your all-in-one device to function correctly on a network, then look for a network all-in-one device, not a USB device. A properly configured wireless all-in-one would also work as a network device, since it connects to the network, not to USB.

TS4097 we have multiple users in our family and multiple devices all sharing one itunes account. i think we are all synced to one icloud account and it is a nightmare....contacts lost, text messags showing up on multiple devises etc. how do we fix this?

We have our family sharing one itunes account. we have 3 iphones, 2 macbook airs, 2 ipads and 1 mac. I am not sure how we even got started on the icloud but somehow we did and everything is a mess. The ipads are showing the text messages, the contacts are all combined, the apps that my duaghter downloads are appearing on all devices. how do we fix this so contacts are not shared, messages are not shared and apps are not automatically synced to all devises?

You have two different issues going on. You are getting each other's messages because you are sharing the Same Apple ID for iMessage. This can be corrected by going to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive on add the devices and doing one of the following:
Either uncheck the email address shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at" on all of your devices; or
If you want to continue to receive iMessages at this email address on one of your devices, on all of the other ones tap the Apple ID at the top, sign out, then sign back in using a different Apple ID (so all devices will be using a different Apple ID for iMessage). Note: you can continue to share an Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and App stores. It does not need to be the same as the ID you are using for iMessage, FaceTime and other services.
The second issue is that you are sharing the same iCloud account on your devices. When you do this any data you sync with the shared iCloud account such as contacts is merged and will appear on all devices connected to the account. To fix this you both need to have separate iCloud accounts (you can continue to share the same Apple ID for purchasing from the iTunes and app stores).
First decide which device(s) will be keeping the current iCloud account. On the one(s) that will be changing accounts, if you have any photos in photo stream that in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else that you want to keep on the device(s), save these to the camera roll by opening the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tapping Edit, then tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share and tap Save to Camera Roll.
Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. (This will only delete the account from this device, not from iCloud. The device(s) that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.) When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On [iDevice]. Next, set up a new iCloud account using a separate Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom). Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge. This will upload the data to the new account. Repeat this process for all the devices that you need to migrate to new accounts.
When finished, to un-merge the data in your accounts you will have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the other person's contacts from your account, and vice versa).

HT5622 I have been using one apple ID for my family as it makes it easier to manage itunes purchases/rentals on all of our devices. Now that my kids are getting old and my wife has recently purchased an Iphone, I can see that I need to change my strategy

I have been using one apple ID for my family as it makes it easier to manage itunes purchases/rentals on all of our devices. Now that my kids are getting old and my wife has recently purchased an Iphone, I can see that I need to change my strategy. I plan to add a few more iphones to the family very soon. What is your recommendation to manage all of our devices (iphones, itouch, apple tv) for my family? Can I continue to function with one apple ID or is it time to take the leep into attempting to manage multi-apple ID's?

There's a few ways of managing multiple devices on a single computer (and keeping seperate content on each). The following document is worth checking through:
How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer

TS2755 Hi all, I bought one iphone and 3 ipads, i set up all on one apple ID. Now i have a problem when using messages: when sending message from one device it appears again on screen from the other 3 devices. I need help of how to set up messages on each

Hi all, I bought one iphone and 3 ipads, i set up all on one apple ID. Now i have a problem when using messages: when sending message from one device it appears again on screen from the other 3 devices. I need help on how to set up messages on each device separately and to start using messages app on each device independently. Thanks

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I travel - a lot. I have apple accounts in Canada, US and Brazil. I want to consolidate and listen to my music and movies on one device. Right now there is a 90 day limit per account on each device. How can I download and use all my purchases?

There must be a way for people who live in several countries or speak several languages to purchase music and movies in various national Apple IDs and then consolidate and listen to the media they own on just one device. How can I do that?

There must be a way to get all the music and movies into one place. Maybe on Laptop rather than iPhone or iPad. I can get one set to one ID and the other to another, then switch to the third ID since I have not changed the two in 90 days. But I would need to download all media during the time each device is on each ID. Must be possible, but I don't know how.

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