[sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue

PaulFransen send.me at xs4all.nl
Mon Apr 27 10:50:43 UTC 2009


On Sunday 12/04/2009 12:13 ono at safe-mail.net wrote:
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> I can try something like SnoopyPro
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/), much later. I just left town
> for (probably) two months and did not take the scanner with me.
>
> The proper function of the ADF on my Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner
> has always been sensitive to the initial position of its feed roller, even
> when using Windows drivers under the Windows operating system. I do not
> have access to any Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner other than the one
> I own, so I do not know if that type of ADF behavior is common to all
> Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanners. ==========================
> Subject: 	Re: [sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue
> Date: 	10 Apr 2009 12:56
> From: 	René Rebe<rene at exactcode.de>
> Apparently from:
> 	sane-devel-bounces+ono=safe-mail.net at lists.alioth.debian.org To:
> 	ono at Safe-mail.net
> Cc: 	sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> Hey, I'm the Avision backend author, but I do not have this scanner.
>
> A year ago someone said the hp8250 ADF worked, no idea what
> changed or if there are multiple models.
>
> If you can send me the usbsnoop log from a windows machine
> scanning, let's say 2 pages at 200 dpi black&white (to keep the
> log small) I can see what I can do.
>
> ono at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> Using a live CD of the 20090409 daily build of Ubuntu 9.04 I used the xsane
> 0.996 application to run my Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner. Scanning
> seemed to work okay except for the ADF.
> When trying to use the ADF, the ADF begins to whir without drawing paper
> from the ADF tray and then an error message is generated by xsane that
> states 'Error during read: Scanner cover is open.' The ADF hardware on my
> Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 scanner sometimes functions inconsistently,
> but this xsane error occurs every time I have tried using the ADF. I
> noticed some previous messages about a similar problem.
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-November/023197.ht
>ml http://bugs.debian.org/521410
> Is the ADF issue going to be addressed by some future version of SANE?
>
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I think that this issue has nothing to do with (X)SANE. I own a ScanJet 8250 
and encountered this problem recently. It appeared to be related to one of 
the detectors not working properly. When I followed the advice in:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00158021
the problem was resolved.


There is another annoying problem with the Avision backend (I think but am not 
sure) that remains: it will not allow to use the duplex facility of the 
ScanJet 8250. When you put the switch on the scanner to duplex scanning, it 
will continue to scan only one side. It works perfectly well when using the 
HP software under Windows though... This problem has been reported before, 
see:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2008-November/023196.html

Regards, Paul.





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