scanner not detected

Sat Feb 16 22:34:26 UTC 2013

On Saturday 16 February 2013 17:05:31 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 02/16/2013 05:47 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 16/02/13 19:32, Ric Moore wrote:
> >> On 02/15/2013 11:56 AM, Conny Enstr�m wrote:
> >>> 2013-02-15 17:23, Abhishek Dixit skrev:
> >>>> I have a new scanner lsusb shows
> >>>> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:042a Hewlett-Packard
> >>>> when I try to scan with simple scan I am unable to scan, it says
> >>>> "Failed to scan
> >>>> unable to connect to scanner"
> >>>> 
> >>>> what should I check
> >>>> -------------------------
> >>>> 
> >>>> Abhi
> >>> 
> >>> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
> >> 
> >> If the OP installed the HP utils, it should work. Just as it does
> >> with HP All-In-One printers that scan. Never had a problem scanning.
> >> Ric
> > 
> > The only thing to watch out for here - if my memory serves me
> > correctly - is the sequence of when to actually connect the scanner
> > to the USB port: is it AFTER installing the HP utils or BEFORE the
> > utils? I think that the utils go in first and then you connect the
> > scanner to the USB port.
> 
> I think I recall the printer/scanner had to be connected at boot time. I
> dunno... but I did have to have all the HP packages I could find
> installed. Then it was painless to use.
> 
> I'm jerked at HP as I spent a small fortune in ink and one day it just
> started printing garbage. I had barely a year of use out of it. After
> raising hell with HP, they had the Director of Tech Support tell me that
> I should have bought a more expensive printer if I expected it to last
> more than a year.
> 
> It's not often I am struck speechless. That day my mouth was stuck at
> wide open, and drooling, until I started to attract flies. I will never
> again buy anything from HP. Never ever. So, to get even, I found a big
> ole Lexmark B/W laser printer used, for $50, with a 250 sheet paper tray
> feeder/drawer like they use in doctor's offices. Perfect. Ric

IF you think thats a real deal Ric, wait till you have to deal with 
lexmark.  Never, ever, mention linux when talking to them, the conversation 
is over, the bastards will say we don't support linux and hang up.  And 
they own a lot of brands besides lexmark. Memorex and Plustek comne to 
mind, and they've burned me bad on both.  And they'll have lawyers on site 
in 3 days if you break the fins off a cheaper toner cart so you can use the 
otherwise identical toner but 1/3rd the cost toner tank in the high priced 
model.

I needed a el cheapo laser, because I couldn't get ribbons for the DW 
printer I had been using on my color computer for 20 years anymore, and 
bought a Brother HL2140 3 or 4 years ago.  Its $110 for the current 
version, you can dl cups drivers for it on linux from Brothers own web 
page, and on a decent machine with a usb-2.0 or better interface, can do 22 
ppm non-stop till the 250 sheet tray is empty, reload it, tap the blinking 
blue button and it starts right back up without dropping a single 
character.

I use it on the coco by sending the output I want printed to this machine 
via a channel in a program that runs on this machine called drivewire, 
which hands it off to cups for text to raster rendering and sends it back 
down the same usb cable to the same hub the coco is plugged into and which 
that printer is plugged into, and because the cable is a tad busy, get my 
assembly listings for coco code back at about 19-20 ppm.  Thats around 30 
times faster than any printer I ever drove straight from the coco.

In that 3 or 4 years, its now on about the 20th ream of paper, and just 
started on the 3rd toner cart & runs as quietly today as it did when new.  
One paper problem, Walmart's recycled crap.  Its never wrinkled a sheet of 
staples stuff in the orange package.  Printers should Just Work(TM) and 
this one does.

And I don't feel like I'm dealing with the devil when I use it.

Cheers, Gene
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