xsane for hpofficejet 6500

[Tom Ashley]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:21:11 -0500 (EST)
<johnp at starpower.net> wrote:

> Sirs:
>  printer prints but does not scan. Using 8.04. When
> clicking xsane, device is not found. It's a new printer,
> oob.synaptic shows 5 sane pkgs installed.
> 
>              Tks for any help 
>                        john
> 
John, 

If you haven't already done so, make sure that the user is a member of
the scanner group, log out, log back in and then try again to use the
scanner.  This has worked for me in similar situations.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Tom Ashley