HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/1/21 10:51 AM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> 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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>> Mobile contact +27 83 588 0028
>>
>>
> 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
> 
> 

Have you tried a different scanning program?

I have a hp_laserjet_pro_mfp_m127fw. I am on Mint. Simple scan will find 
the scanner but when I tried to scan it said it was Unable to connect to 
scanner. I switched to XSane and it worked just fine.

Regards,  Jim