[sane-devel] "Error during device I/O" with ehternet attached HP LJ 3052

[m. allan noah]

> $ scanimage --device=hpoj:hpjd:192.168.1.50
> scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O
>
>
> Now what can be the problem? I already put  "option dumb-read" to
> /etc/sane.d/hp.conf, but it didn't help. I tried to get more output from
> scanimage by using -v and exported "SANE_DEBUG_HPOJ=255", but scanimage says
> nothing more than the error message above.
> On each call of scanimage the ethernet port of the printer flashs, so obviously
> the printer receives something.
>
> So, what can I do to get near to the problem?
>

hpoj seems to no longer be supported by its makers. you could upgrade to 
HPLIP? http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

allan

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