[sane-devel] HP officejet: access scanner over the network

[Wouter van Marle]

Allan,

The scanning part (hpaio) is working fine - there is no problem on that
side.

The problem is on the SANE side: how to install this command within SANE
so I can access this scanner through xsane and saned. This is why I'm
asking here again.

Maybe I have to add something in the /etc/sane.d config dir? I don't
know how saned finds it's scanners!

Wouter

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
> maybe ask the guys that make the hpaio backend? it is part of the hplip project.
> 
> allan
> 
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Wouter van Marle
> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone an idea on this issue?
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:17 -0600, gobo wrote:
> >> you need to have hplip installed.  with hplip you can then use hpaio
> >> to access the scanner across the network.  for example:
> >>
> >> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -d
> >> hpaio:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103 -pv --mode gray >
> >> $FILE
> >
> > OK that part works after substituting my scanner name and ip of course.
> > So the scanner can be addressed, and is scanning properly.
> >
> > But this is not the way I like to do my scanning of course, it's nice
> > for testing and all. How can I integrate this into a saned server or
> > whatever, so I can use xsane or another sane compliant software in the
> > network to access this scanner?
> >
> > Previously the HP was connected to the server over USB, and the rest of
> > the workstations could very easily access the scanner through the saned
> > interfaces. The workstations are on Mandriva Linux by the way, and could
> > easily add this scanner through the control panel. Just give the ip of
> > the server, and the scanner was detected automatically.
> >
> > Wouter.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Wouter van Marle
> >> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I am the happy owner of an HP Officejet Pro L7560 (an all-in-one
> >>> device).
> >>>
> >>> Until recently I had this connected to my server through USB, and
> >>> printing and scanning all worked fine. Of course using sane on the
> >>> server to access the scanner from the workstations.
> >>>
> >>> Now I have a new office, all is rearranged, and the Officejet is
> >>> connected directly to the network. It gets it's IP from the server by
> >>> DHCP, which I configured to be fixed, so far so good. Printing (though
> >>> Cups) works like a charm after some googling to get the correct way to
> >>> address the printer, but now scanning! How can I do this? A couple of
> >>> hours searching Google didn't give me a single clue... the scanner is
> >>> not found automatically by Sane, and no idea on how to address it.
> >>>
> >>> I'm looking for one of two solutions:
> >>> 1) server is talking to the scanner one way or another, and then
> >>> shares
> >>> the scanner with the workstations through the existing Sane interface.
> >>> 2) the workstations (three only, it's a small network) talk to the
> >>> scanner directly (they are all on the same 192.168.2.0/24 subnet) (if
> >>> easy/automatically to configure on the workstations).
> >>>
> >>> Wouter.
> >>>
> >>>
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