Vista I have an HP 4180 all-in-one Series printer and a new HP laptop computer which has Windows Vista. When I try to connect the printer it is working but the scanner dose not work

It sounds like your are using your Windows XP computer as the print server, and you are trying to connect your Windows Vista machine to the Windows XP print server. Your Vista machine is trying to download the XP drivers from the Windows XP computer to your Vista machine. This won't work. Windows XP and Vista print drivers are not compatible.

If the printer is truely networked (it has it's own IP address on the network, it has its own ethernet connection). Then instead of trying to map out to this shared printer, add new printer to the Vista machine using Vista drivers for the HP Deskjet 3940. The type of port you would need is a standard TCP/IP port. To get this address, print a settings page from the printer. Look for either a TCP/IP address or IP address on this print out. This is the port address you want to create and then connect to.

Download and install the VISTA  driver/software from HP for your model. Link provided below:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us〈=en&product=1141647

Your CD's drivers probably aren't approved for Vista. Below is a link to the HP support site's Vista driver download page for your all in one.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=1141647

Download and instal the VISTA driver made for you model.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=1141647〈=en

Hello,
Here at HP.COM you can download the drivers you need for your C4180 using Windows VISTA;

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=1141647

Good Luck!
Rich Lilja

try just connecting the printer to the laptop without the cd first. Vista has lots and lots of drivers to install this printer. It will pick it up once you have connected it to the laptop and then turned the printer on. The Cd was probably not made for vista.

Hi ,
click the link below -
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-47462-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=1141647&os=2093&lang=en

scroll dow - click download only - save it on desktop - run and restart the computer. While running maintain the same normal installation process.

vista is a big pain. i don't what it's good for?

I have a new HP laptop with Vista Home OS, and I just installed my HL-1440 with a driver that was installed automatically in the "New Printer" procedure in Windows, and it works perfectly.

--Gabriel

there have been many problems with vista with all kinds of kit.... The best thing to do is to go to the Lexmark website and download the latest software drivers for your printer, hopefully that will resolve the issue