Wildly inconsistent scanning speed Xubuntu 22.04 + HP OfficeJet 4654

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:15 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> At Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:20:22 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have an HP OfficeJet 4654 All-in-One device I routinely use for
> > scanning large documents.
> >
> > The sheet feeder jams regularly for no apparent reason - it's clean
> > and the path is unobstructed.
> >
> > What's worse is that the speed of the scans is wildly inconsistent.
> > Some pages zip right through, and others scan slowly in stages. The
> > printout I'm scanning right now is all black and white, great
> > contrast, and some pages take a few seconds, others more like a
> > minute.
> >
> > It's out of warranty and free support, and Google can't handle a
> > question like this well.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good, high-speed scanner, preferably all-in-one
> > with color printouts for a reasonably low price?  This one was under
> > $80 new (the ink refill was almost as much as a new printer), but for
> > my next one I want a fast, more reliable scanner.
> >
> > I tend to like HPs because they tend to be highly Linux compatible,
> > but at this point I'm less fond of them - this is the second OfficeJet
> > that deteriorated in scanning speed this way.
>
> Well, Brother and Lexmark have good Linux support and are cheaper than HPs.

While Brother printers do have Linux drivers, you should have seen the
absolute nightmare I had trying to help someone get a Brother printer
hooked up on a Linux machine - I'm not sure if it ever did work
reliably! Just my two cents here - maybe the particular printer I was
dealing with was just tricky, but FWIW, that was my experience.