HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/1/21 10:07 AM, Charles Irons wrote:
> On 2021/10/01 14:47, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:13, Jay Ridgley<jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>  wrote:
>>> I tried originally to do the wireless thing, however, the HP Smart could
>>> not find the printer.
>> 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.
>>
>>> Since I did not want a wireless install in the
>>> first place I plugged it in to the USB.
>> Well, OK, but what I am getting at is that this means it is a _local_
>> device _to that PC_. This is not the same as being a network
>> printer/scanner.
>>
>> There is infrastructure in Linux and CUPS to share printers over a
>> LAN, but CUPS doesn't have anything to do with scanning and it can't
>> help you with sharing a scanner.
>>
>> Indeed, that I know of, _no_ OS has scanner-sharing facilities. Which
>> is why, if you want a scanner to be available to different devices on
>> a network, you might want to connect said scanner directly to the
>> network.
>>
>>
>>> At the current time the printer prints, simple-scan FINDS it, however,
>>> when I press the SCAN button it crashes.
>> Is this on the local machine to which it's connected, or on another machine?
>>
>>> Since the device was not supported by HPLIP until version 3.20.5 I built
>>> and installed that.
>> I just took a look at
>> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
>>
>> It seems that 3.20.5 is not current and the current version is 3.21.8.
>> I would always advocate going for the very latest version.
>>
>> For instance -- I'm not sure what version of Ubuntu you are running,
>> but if you are on the current releases (20.04 LTS or 21.04 short-term)
>> then 3.20 may be too old and might not support it, whereas I'd expect
>> HPLIP $CURRENT to support Ubuntu $CURRENT.
>>
>> So my 2 suggestions would be:
>>
>> [1] Use the latest HPLIP
>>
>> [2] Try attaching the printer to the WLAN.
>>
>> And supplementary to that, as per Zahid's point:
>>
>> [3] If you have a smartphone, try setting up the HP tools on that as
>> well. Even if you don't want to use it from the phone this could give
>> useful info.
>>
>> There are plenty of pages that will advise you how to install it.
>> First 3 on Google:
>>
>> https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/install-latest-hplip-ubuntu-20-04-fix/
>>
>> https://www.edoardovignati.it/how-to-install-hplip-on-ubuntu-20-04/
>>
>> https://www.devmanuals.net/install/ubuntu/ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa/installing-hplip-gui-on-ubuntu20-04.html
>>
>> About the plugin:
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1070470/how-should-i-install-hplip-binary-proprietary-plugin-driver-for-my-hp-printer-or/1070471#1070471
>>
> Hello All
> 
> My HP Deskjet 1515 is connected to my desktop USB port.
> 
> The program Simple Scan is installed and finds the HP and scans and 
> saves images as .pdf or other suffix.
> 
> I don't remember doing any configuration.
> 
> Hope it may work for HP ENVY 6052e
> 
> Take care. Chas
> 
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> 
Thanks Chas,

I have had the same experience, in the past, unfortunately this time 
after doing a normal install simple-scan could NOT find my printer.

That is what I have been trying to accomplish without success, so far...

Cheers,
Jay


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