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Mookey
Asked: 2019-07-06 05:04:26 +0800 CST

18.04 and Samsung: Scan to PC not available

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I'm using Samsung XPress 2070FW over WiFi and I cannot get the printer to scan using the on-the-printer scan to pc function. The error message is "Scan to PC not available". However, scanning using the PC (sane) works fine. The driver is the unified one for the model, but there's no interface like the one of windows so I cannot tweak scanning on Ubuntu.

Anyone encountered a similar problem?

networking drivers printing samsung scanner

2 Answers

  1. Your best bet is to ask HP to release an application similar to Windows for Linux. This is a good place to start:

    hplip website.png

    In this Ask Ubuntu question it is asked:

    • What should one install to make Ubuntu fully support the HP printer and/or scanner?

    The answer there is to use:

    sudo apt-get install hplip hplip-gui

    However the full answer is more complicated than just the simple command

    If you can't get help direct from HP you can try using wine to run the Windows application inside Linux:

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  2. If yo're using the Bchemnet repository and the sane library. You can follow my steps.

    1. Open terminal and run

      sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-smfp* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane

    2. Edit the file some_samsung.rules ,you can find in /etc/udev/rules.d folder, and then include Samsung Model Numbers using ATTRS(idProduct)=="2070", ENV(libsane_matched)="yes"

    Finally restart your system.

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