In our office they've got this HP Laser Jet 3050 Printer/Copy/Scanner,
but without a manual. Since it's got a USB connector, I guess that's
for the scanner input to a computer.

I once used some HP software for OCR, so I'm guessing that HP
provides software for/with its HP 3050 machine ?

Or am I wasting my time ?

== TIA.

On 5/15/08 9:43 PM, in article ,
"problems@gmail" problems@gmail wrote:

In our office they've got this HP Laser Jet 3050 Printer/Copy/Scanner,
but without a manual. Since it's got a USB connector, I guess that's
for the scanner input to a computer.

I once used some HP software for OCR, so I'm guessing that HP
provides software for/with its HP 3050 machine ?

Or am I wasting my time ?

== TIA.



I believe every scanner I ever bought came with OCR software. The first
ones were usable, but not outstanding. More recently they have all been
more than adequate.

My bet is that the CD or DVD that came with the HP 3050 has OCR software on
it.

problems@gmail wrote in :

In our office they've got this HP Laser Jet 3050 Printer/Copy/Scanner,
but without a manual. Since it's got a USB connector, I guess that's
for the scanner input to a computer.

I once used some HP software for OCR, so I'm guessing that HP
provides software for/with its HP 3050 machine ?

Or am I wasting my time ?

== TIA.




Log on to the following HP support site:

http://www.hp.com/#Support


.......do your own search or use the following TinyURL reference to go
directly to the relevent web page concerning your unit:

http://tinyurl.com/5s8rbp

The USB connector operates the entire HP printer. The software for the
unit is available from www.hp.com


On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:18:44 GMT, propman wrote:

problems@gmail wrote in :

In our office they've got this HP Laser Jet 3050 Printer/Copy/Scanner,
but without a manual. Since it's got a USB connector, I guess that's
for the scanner input to a computer.

I once used some HP software for OCR, so I'm guessing that HP
provides software for/with its HP 3050 machine ?

Or am I wasting my time ?

== TIA.




Log on to the following HP support site:

http://www.hp.com/#Support


......do your own search or use the following TinyURL reference to go
directly to the relevent web page concerning your unit:

http://tinyurl.com/5s8rbp

On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:43:04 -0500, problems@gmail wrote:

In our office they've got this HP Laser Jet 3050 Printer/Copy/Scanner,
but without a manual. Since it's got a USB connector, I guess that's
for the scanner input to a computer.

Nope. The USB port runs everything on the printer.

I once used some HP software for OCR, so I'm guessing that HP
provides software for/with its HP 3050 machine ?

Good guess. See the specs for the 3050 at:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328064-12004-3328082-1140783.html
which includes:
"Readiris PRO text recognition software (not installed with other
software, separate installation required)..."
http://www.irislink.com/c2-532-189/O...duct-list.aspx
I have several customers with this particular printer. My not so
humble opinion of the Java based fax/print/monitor software is that
it's dog slow, kinda flakey, and drove me nuts under Windoze 2000.
However, when they upgraded to Windoze XP and faster machines, things
stabilized nicely. I vaguely recall that the above OCR software was
on a seperate CD that came in the box or required a download. It's
probably NOT on the original install CD. They didn't need OCR so it
was never installed. Look around and see if you can find the CD's and
instructions.

Or am I wasting my time ?

Nope. You're wasting mine.

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