Scanner Question - SOLVED

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/21/2010 12:47 PM, Valter Mura wrote:
> In data martedì 21 settembre 2010 18:50:49, Billie Walsh ha scritto:
>
>    
>> 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 have an HP 5180 all-in-one printer connected directly to a USB port, and for
> me works quite well.
>
> The scanner I'm using is XSane Image Scanner, version 0.996; it detects
> correctly the device and works very well.
>
> I have also HPLIP installed, version 3.10.2, device manager 15.0 (Qt4) and the
> command present in the settings for the scanner is:
>
> /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%
>
> Maybe you lack of some driver, but please look at this page:
>
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-
> web/models/photosmart/photosmart_c4100_series.html
>
> Regards,
>    

I had just reloaded everything from the  repos with synaptic and it 
didn't work. I followed your link to HP and downloaded the "latest and 
greatest" and ran the installer script. Now it works. I guess the 
version in the repo needs updated or something.

I really appreciate it. Thanks loads.

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