HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/1/21 1:04 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 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
> 
> 
Thanks, Jim

No I had not, however, I did and got this in response...

jay at polar:~$ xsane

(xsane:4721): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 13:15:54.759: IA__gdk_drawable_unref: 
assertion 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

(xsane:4721): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 13:15:54.759: IA__gdk_drawable_unref: 
assertion 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

jay at polar:~

Along with an Error - Failed to open device 
'hpaio:/usb/EBVY_6000_series?serial=TH12OBK1BM':Error during device i/O

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