scanning

[David McGlone]

On Friday 02 October 2009 03:43:35 pm Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Yesterday I had to scan some images and low and behold scanning isn't
> > working and I don't have the slightest idea what to do.
> >
> > I used to use Kooka and it detected my HP Officejet 5610 all in one just
> > fine. Well yesterday was the first time the occasion came up that I
> > needed to scan some images and scanning is broke.
> >
> > I tried using Sane, but it will not detect my scanner and insist my TV
> > card is my scanner and there is no option to change this.
> >
> > So I installed scan lite and get the same results.
> >
> > last night I installed all of gnome hoping there would be an app I could
> > use there with no luck whatsoever.
> >
> > I also installed the kdegraphics package hoping Sane would use the
> > libkscan library that Kooka used and that was a dead end too.
> >
> > All in all I've wasted a whole day for a simple task, and I'm so
> > frustrated it's hard to stay calm.
> >
> > Anyway, I've exhausted everything I know to do. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions?
> 
> what keeps you from using the hplip drivers, that work
> perfectly with any supported device. Your 5610 is fully
> supported. See here:
> 
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

Yeah and I also stumbled upon the fact I had my 5610 plugged into my routers 
printer port. So all along I should have been setting up a network printer, 
not a local printer! 

I'll take full responsibility for this one. LOL 

-- 
Blessings,
David M.
http://www.dmcentral.net