How do I scan a paper into my computer to use in email?

Can anyone tell me in a few steps how to use my All in One printer to scan to an email or disc?

• I have an HP 1325, and no manual! Oops! (Gift from a neighbor!) managed to get the disk, and entered the printer into the computer (pc) but now, I want to scan some photos and graphics into an email, is this possible and can someone tell me what to do 1., 2., 3., kind of easily! Thanks for your time, and forgive my question if it is a dumb one.

• Answer:

  You can scan to email, but only if the email is locally loaded and run on the computer like Outlook, it cannot be an online email like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. For those you have to scan to disk, thereby creating a file on the hard drive, then attach it to an email and send it. To scan to computer and save as a file, you need to have loaded the software from the disk that works with the scanner. You can either start the software and have it scan the documents or use the control panel on the printer. Usually there is a button like Scan To or Send To that starts the software program on the computer to scan and save it to the computer hard drive. On the CD you should find the User's Manual for your printer. It should tell you how to do everything you want. Best of luck.