Scanner on printer not working

Scott Blair scott.blair at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 19:27:07 UTC 2017


On 03/12/2017 03:05 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 12 Mar 2017 at 13:53:13 -0400, Scott Blair wrote:
>
>> On 03/12/2017 11:37 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
>>>
>>> Ok. Airprint is enabled. What is showing this error? Please post so we
>>> can see what you can see.
>>
>> http://192.168.30.105
>> Under tools, printer information, items needing attention it says scanner
>> failure.
>
> Thanks. I wonder what "failure" means. Is the scanner physically broken
> or is it an indication of some communication (network?) problem?  Surely
> it cannot be broken? Copying works and that uses the scanner.
>
> The wireless connection seems fine because you can access the device at
> 192.168.30.105. You have AirPrint/Bonjour activated (Bonjour is under
> Network/Networking on the web page) but the previous avahi-browse
> command gives no output. This is very worrying. Are you sure there is no
> sign of the envy amongst the other items there?
>
> avahi-browse -art | less
>
> (If you are thinking of putting the scanner on the network with SANE,
> I'd think again. Ubuntu bug #1435022).
>
> Please post the output of 'lpstat -t'.
>

No won't copy either. I just borrowed a friends laptop running Windows 
10, same error message when trying to scan. I think it is time for a new 
printer.





Thanks,

Scott Blair

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