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Martin Hope
N0rbert
Asked: 2018-08-31 04:11:45 +0800 CST
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Let's assume that one has some modern HP printer and/or scanner which is supported by HPLIP package from official repository. Or supported by newer version of HPLIP package (see this answer about installation).

From official documentation (HP Developer Portal | All Supported Printer Models) it is known that device needs proprietary/binary driver or plugin.

How should one install such plugin?

drivers printing hp scanner
Martin Hope
Tanama
Asked: 2018-05-02 23:01:32 +0800 CST
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I have a HP 3630 all in one printer/scanner and it was working great on Ubuntu 16.04 with the HP Print manager. Now I did a clean and fresh install Ubuntu 18.04 and the printing work fine, but example Sane (or other scan software) can't find the device.

error message

I have installed hplip 3.18.4 that I found on the HP website, but still nothing. Even to add a printer in the HP manager didn't work. In the WiFi I tried the WIFI-direct to connect with the printer and that works fine also, but the scan is not seen.

What to do to make scanning work on Ubuntu 18.04?

drivers hp scanner hplip
Martin Hope
Lolwhites
Asked: 2017-10-26 13:15:06 +0800 CST
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I own a Samsung M2070W printer/scanner, which worked in 17.04. After installing 17.10, it prints but is not detected my Simple Scan or Xsane.

The latest drivers from the Samsung website are installed.

It is detected by sane-find-scanner but not scanimage-L. Output from the former:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3469 [M2070 Series]) at libusb:003:003

I tried modifying the .bashrc as suggested in Samsung SCX-4200 Scanner not working (printing OK) 14.04, but it didn't work.

I've seen this issue on several forums but no one seems to have a solution.

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Martin Hope
Zach Latta
Asked: 2012-08-22 21:01:20 +0800 CST
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I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i. I compiled SANE from source. When I run sane-find-scanner, the following output is given:

sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. 
If the result is different from what you expected, first make sure your scanner 
is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure 
that you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5, product=0x128d) at libusb:002:004  
Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE.
Try scanimage -L and read the backend's
manpage.

Not checking for parallel port scanners.
Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be detected by this program.
You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. 
Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as necessary.

However, when I run scanimage -L or sudo scanimage -L the following output is given:

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different. 
Check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). 
Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Also, I added an entry to /etc/sane.d/fujitsu.conf for the ScanSnap S1300i.

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