[sane-devel] hp ScanJet 5200C not working

[Mark Longridge]

Hi Dominik,

I use the HP 5200C a lot and it does work with
xsane and scanimage BUT I can not use the front
button via USB. I am talking to HP about the front button
and they are trying to help me. Soon I will try it with the
MS Windows software just to see if the button works.
I think perhaps the button does work via the parallel
port with xsane but I don't have the cable.

I also wrote a couple of simple utilities to talk to the 
scanner directly by sending commands to /dev/usb/scanner0 .
But I am using 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp (Fedora Core 1).

You can read my notes here: http://cubeman.org/hp.txt

You could try something like this:

scanimage -d hp:/dev/usb/scanner0 --mode color --resolution 100 -x 50 -y 50 > 
test.pnm

I don't know if that would work on ubuntu 5.10 but basically
talking to the 5200C straightforward if you know the SCL
commands. I know that MS Windows users complained that
sometimes the scanner would stop responsing to messages
via USB. This would happen if the NVRAM was corrupted.

Mark



On April 28, 2006 08:11 am, Dominik Holler wrote:
> hi,
> i am using sane 1.0.15-9ubuntu6 on ubuntu 5.10
> sane acess the scanner via libusb
>
> the scanner is detected, but does not work:
>
> user at kasopaja:~$ sudo scanimage -L
> device `hp:libusb:002:006' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5200C flatbed
> scanner
> user at kasopaja:~$ sudo scanimage -T -vvvvvv
> scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 1 bits/pixel
> scanimage: acquiring gray frame, 1 bits/sample
> scanimage: reading one scanline, 319 bytes...   FAIL Error: Error during
> device I/O
> Closing device
> Calling sane_exit
> scanimage: finished
>
> but the 5200c is complete supported, isn't ?
> is there a way to detect if the hardware or the software fails ?
>
> greetings
>
> dominik
>
>
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