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

[Till Kamppeter]

Try running "scanimage -L" as root. If it finds the scanner, there is a 
permission problem.

    Till

Wouter van Marle wrote:
> Dear Till,
> 
> Thank you for your answer.
> Unfortunately it doesn't work like that for me. I have installed the
> printer in CUPS, the uri is hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.168.2.9
> 
> Printing works, so the above setting/uri is for sure correct.
> 
> However scanimage -L doesn't list any scanners.
> 
> Wouter.
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:46 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> To be able to access your scanner without supplying the scanner URI 
>> (hpaio:/...) and so also to be able to access it with saned and xsane, 
>> you need to set up a CUPS queue for the printing part of your device 
>> (with CUPS URI hp:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103). Then 
>> you can do the scanimage command without the -d option:
>>
>> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -pv --mode gray > $FILE
>>
>> and use also any other frontend without specifying your scanner. And if 
>> you run saned, it will share your scanner then.
>>
>>     Till
>>
>> Wouter van Marle 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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