Hi kennyb777,
Welcome back to the Forums, I see it's been a couple of months since you last posted.
I understand that you are getting an error message when trying to scan with you Officejet L7680. I have included a document with detailed trouble shooting steps to take. You may have done some of the steps already, but it is important to perform the steps in the order they are presented.
'The scanning device could not be initialized' and Related Scanning Error Messages Display on the Computer
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c00896190