Scanner Question - SOLVED

[Valter Mura]

In data martedì 21 settembre 2010 23:04:09, Billie Walsh ha scritto:

> On 09/21/2010 12:47 PM, Valter Mura wrote:
> > In data martedì 21 settembre 2010 18:50:49, Billie Walsh ha scritto:
> >> I have an HP 4100 all in one printer connected directly to a USB port. I
> >> was having some issues with it as a printer after a clean install of
> >> 10.04 and found it was a bad cable. Replaced that and that part now
> >> works fine.
> >> 
> >> I just can't use the scanner part.
> > 
> > I have an HP 5180 all-in-one printer connected directly to a USB port,
> > and for me works quite well.
> > 
> > The scanner I'm using is XSane Image Scanner, version 0.996; it detects
> > correctly the device and works very well.
> > 
> > I have also HPLIP installed, version 3.10.2, device manager 15.0 (Qt4)
> > and the command present in the settings for the scanner is:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%
> > 
> > Maybe you lack of some driver, but please look at this page:
> > 
> > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-
> > web/models/photosmart/photosmart_c4100_series.html
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> I had just reloaded everything from the  repos with synaptic and it
> didn't work. I followed your link to HP and downloaded the "latest and
> greatest" and ran the installer script. Now it works. I guess the
> version in the repo needs updated or something.
> 
> I really appreciate it. Thanks loads.

Very welcome :-) I'm really happy when I succeed to help some of you

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