Preview, image capture don't recognize my scanner

My HP all-in-one printer-scanner prints fine on my network but niether preview nor image capture lets me select a scanner. The option is grayed out. I recently re-installed the printer software but no change.
The scanner works as expected when using the HP software but not with the mac os apps (preview, image capture).

rheba wrote:
Thanks - the driver is not available from Apple.
Yes it is, as per this Apple KB article.
rheba wrote:
The MP Navigator I did manage to download. There was some complicated procedure as Apple doesn't have it at the app store.
As I mentioned, MP Navigator is not digitally signed. But you can still install it using my procedure, which is not that complicated.
rheba wrote:
Sorry - I should add that this shouldn't be so hard. Apple used to be plug and play. This took me hours and hours to track down.
On a correctly working Mac it still is plug and play. I have the LiDE 200 and all I had to do after installing 10.8 was to connect the scanner. The ICA driver was then downloaded and installed from Apple and I was then able to scan using Image Capture.

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