HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/1/21 1:27 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> 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
> 
OK, sorry it didn't work. My setup is quite different from yours (I'm 
using Mint, my printer is a different model and connected by Ethernet) 
so what I say below may not be relevant.

Just to give you some more info, I don't think the Gdk ... error 
matters. When I start xsane from the terminal I get the same message but 
the scan works. For some reason xsane sees 2 scanners. One shows as 
[airscan:w1:HP...], the other as [hpaio:/net/...]. The [airscan] one 
works the [hpaio] one gives basically the same "failed to open" message 
you show above.

Regards,  Jim