HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question *REAL PROGRESS*

[Jay Ridgley]

On 9/30/21 10:15 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 10:36, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> The HP ENVY 6052e is connected to a host named polar on my network and
>> is available to two other hosts. Each can print using the printer.
> 
> So what you mean is that it is connected to a client PC using USB, and
> that PC is connected to the network? This is not the same thing as
> being connected to the network itself. My laser printer -- an elderly
> Lexmark E120N -- is connected to my network: it has an Ethernet port,
> and I have a cable going from that to my router. The printer has an IP
> address. That's what being on the network means.
> 
> You are sharing a local printer on one machine.
> 
> What OS is on that machine?

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
> 
> Can that machine scan?
> 
The 6052e is connected to polar, I am able to print from other hosts as 
well.

Printing works but scanning does not.

IN response to you other query:

I am not sure at this time what caused the error. I know that was not a 
good way to ask for help.  I was kinda frustrated and not clear in my 
thinking... However, I kept at it and ...

The good news

I found that hplip 3.20.5 supports the ENVY 6000 series printers I did 
the following:

1. Downloaded the hplip 3.20.5 package as instructed in the Ubuntu
    Handbook (last updated June 14, 2020).

2. in a terminal window
    chmod +x ~/Downloads/hplip-3.20.5.run

3. using Synaptic
    installed python-is-python3
    which required uninstalling python-is-python2 and
    uninstalling python-dev-is python2-dev
    installed canberra-gtk-module

4. Finally ran ./Downloads/hplip-3.20.5.run to install the driver.

Was able to get that done with one error: missing python3-devl
I most likely need to install python-dev-is python3-dev

However after all that I was able to get simple-scan to load and find my 
scanner as: HP ENVY_6000_series.
The resulting scan resulted in an error popup:

	Failed to scan
    Unable to connect to scanner

	   Close

My next chore is to figure out what that means.  I will let you know 
what I find out.

I do have hplip 3.20.5 successfully installed.

VERY Tired up almost 30 hours working to get this far. Taking a break!

Cheers,
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
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