[aklug] Re: Multi-OS scanner/printer

Tim,
 To wrap it all up, I checked my settings here at work. Turns out you
wont need to edit the backends if you have the latest and greatest
HPLIP. I thought I had edited mine, but that must have been for the
cannon printer we had before the HP 8600. I thought it was an 8500, but
it is an 8600. If you install the printer through CUPS, it will not
work as a scanner until you run hp-setup from the command line.

Install instructions are here:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/debian.html

We got an HP 8600 all in wonder and I use my work laptop over the
wireless network to scan from it. One side note, after you install HPLIP, then
run hp-setup as a non-root user. If you run as root, it will tell you
you shouldn't and may not detect anything.

$ hp-setup -i

 Then, you can choose the second option (which is option 1) for
network setup, and just follow the script. If you installed per above
instructions, xsane will automatically detect it over the network when
you start xsane.
 If it doesn't, check the /etc/default/saned file and make sure

RUN=yes

 then, restart your saned service.

 So, the long way around answering your question is: Greg is right, HP
has great Linux support. Debian and Ubuntu are very similar, so the
above instructions for installation should work great, but you can
check with your distro.
 Although, you probably already knew all that, and just wanted to know
what we thought of the printer. :)
Hope that helps, and I'll try to work on making shorter posts....

On 1/11/15, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 January 2015 6:35:47 pm you wrote:
>> Tim,
>> At work I use an HP8500 to scan and print over the network. Greg is
>> correct, you are making a wise choice to stick with HP, their support
>> is great for Linux machines.
>> If you use the HPLIP tool:
>>
>> # hp-setup -i
>>
>> You can choose option 2 for a network printer, and then set it up for
>> printing and scanning.
>> Fortunately, once you do this, you do not need a USB cable to scan,
>> as you can set xsane to scan over the network by editing this file:
>>
>> # nano /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf
>>
>> You can look up the backend that you need, I'll check when I get to
>> work tomorrow for which one I use, as HP 8500's are not "supported"
>> backends, but still work just fine. Essentially, you punch in a
>> backend://ipaddress:portnumber for your scanner and then save the
>> file. Reboot the computer (or restart the sane service) and you can
>> scan over the network to a standalone all-in-wonder hp scanner/printer
>> with xsane. Works like a champ at my work, using Debian Wheezy.
>> -Weston
>
> Cool, I will try this next time I am at the site.
>
> Love the AKLUGer's, tried google, briefly, it gave me the wrong impession
>
>
> --
> Peace,
>
> Greg
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Received on Mon Jan 12 06:26:00 2015