Wildly inconsistent scanning speed Xubuntu 22.04 + HP OfficeJet? 4654

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:23:33 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

*I* have had great success with Brother *Laser* printers.  Totally painless 
setup.

> 

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