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

Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Tue Apr 28 08:10:11 UTC 2009


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On 28.04.2009, at 10:02, John Cotter wrote:

> Hello,
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> fully. Regards John
>
> John Cotter
> Lowestoft
> Suffolk
> United Kingdom
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sane-devel-bounces+john.cotter=phonecoop.coop at lists.alioth.debian.org
> [mailto:sane-devel-bounces+john.cotter=phonecoop.coop at lists.alioth.debian.or
> g] On Behalf Of PaulFransen
> Sent: 27 April 2009 11:51
> To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc: rene at exactcode.de
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8250 ADF issue
>
>
> On Sunday 12/04/2009 12:13 ono at safe-mail.net wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 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=c0015
> 8021
> 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.htm
> l
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
>
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