HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Liam Proven]

I am not sure that you meant to reply to me privately, off-list, but
there doesn't seem to be anything private or confidential in here so I
am redirecting my reply to the list so that maybe it can help others.

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 16:41, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/21 7:47 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> >
> > What is "HP Smart"? Bear in mind I'm working blind here. I don't have
> > an HP printer and I haven't installed HPLIP on something in about 8-10
> > years.
> HP Smart is an app on a smart phone

Aha, OK. Well, I suspect that for that to work, the printer will need
its own IP address, and since it's not on your network it doesn't have
one.

So this is perhaps another reason for connecting it to your wifi.

> The HP 6052e is physically attached to my main system. It set up as a
> shared printer and used from two other systems, without problems as a
> printer.
[...]
> I understand that the scanner is ONLY available on the attached system.
> It is ONLY used there.

This was not clear to me from your previous messages. :-( I think I
understand better now, though.

I suggest that in future you try to supply as much information of this
kind as you can in your initial query. Then, with a fuller picture of
the problem, you may find that you get more (and more helpful)
answers.

[...]
> > then 3.20 may be too old and might not support it, whereas I'd expect
> > HPLIP $CURRENT to support Ubuntu $CURRENT.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with GNOME desktop.

Useful info. Thanks. So, I repeat my earlier point: do not worry about
getting the specific version that first gained support for your
device. Focus on just getting the latest version, as that is most
likely to work well with the latest Ubuntu (either long- or
short-term).

> How do you display HPLIP $CURRENT and Ubuntu $CURRENT.

A dollar sign followed by a word IN CAPS is Unix shorthand for a
variable: in this case, it means "whatever the current version of
HPLIP is" and "whatever the current version of Ubuntu is".

> THe HP Manager
> shows HPLIP 20.3.5

Not 3.20.5? Odd.

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