Purchased upgrade Snow Leopard from Apple and installed, now it says cannot locate my scanner?

Have iMac with OS X version 10.6.3 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB 800 MHz DDRw SDRAM. Purchased Mac OSX Snow Leopard and installed the upgrade.
Connected to HP Photosmart C4680. All worked fine until installing Snow Leopard. Now my C4680 will not scan, says it cannot locate the scanner. Reinstalled Snow Leopard with the same results. I tried another Printer, Scanner with the same results. I set both scanners up from the get go but still get the same results. I think S.L left something out. Would appreciate any help.

Unless there are drivers provided by Apple to work with the printer, you're out of luck. The latest drivers provided by Lexmark are for OS X 10.4 Intel. Unfortunately, this can happen when slightly older peripherals and newer software don't mesh.

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Boot from your current OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
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5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the
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7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
C. Important: Please read before installing:
1. If you have a FireWire hard drive connected, disconnect it before installing the
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2. You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system
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HT3964 I just upgraded to Snow Leopard then Lion and the computer shut down after installation. Now when it starts up it gets as far as the apple icon and then shuts down again

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