Scanner Question

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/21/2010 12:14 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 11:50 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
>    
>> I have an HP 4100 all in one printer connected directly to a USB port. I
>> was having some issues with it as a printer after a clean install of
>> 10.04 and found it was a bad cable. Replaced that and that part now
>> works fine.
>>
>> I just can't use the scanner part.
>>
>> I've never had any issue on previous versions/machines.  So far I've
>> tried different ports. Checked to make sure that all the requisite
>> software is installed [ sane, hplip, etc. ], and even marked it for
>> re-install via Synaptic.
>>
>> I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions. I really need the scanner more than
>> the printer.
>>      
> This may sound nuts, but I found that at times I have to open and close
> the scanner lid part to recycle "something". I know, not very techie but
> once I do that, something grinds and whirs and I'm able to scan. I
> loathe the amount of ink my HP 1510 eats, but it's a fine scanner. Ric

I've opened and closed the lid many times trying to get it to scan 
something. So far that hasn't done any good.


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