Scanner on printer not working
Doug
dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Sun Mar 12 20:21:54 UTC 2017
On 03/12/2017 04:03 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 12 Mar 2017 at 15:27:07 -0400, Scott Blair wrote:
>
>> 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.
> I'll leave you with this:
>
> http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Scanning-Faxing-and-Copying/HP-Officejet-4500-error-message-scanner-failure/td-p/1173897
>
> Make of it what you will.
>
> BTW, the request for the lpstat output wasn't an idle one. It would
> still be useful to have and would take but seconds to obtain, copy
> and paste and post. Please consider doing it.
>
This is somewhat off topic, since it's a different Linux system
(PCLinuxOS) and my scanner works
perfectly. It's part of an Epson WP-4530. But I ran lpstat -t and it
doesn't say anything about the
scanner function. It only shows the printer and its network address. (I
have set my printers with
static ips.)
Here's the output:
[doug at linux1 ~]$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: hplj-pro-m201
device for hplj-pro-m201: socket://192.168.1.29:9100
device for WP4530: socket://192.168.1.26:9100
hplj-pro-m201 accepting requests since Sun 12 Mar 2017 02:10:06 PM EDT
WP4530 accepting requests since Thu 09 Mar 2017 09:26:34 PM EST
printer hplj-pro-m201 is idle. enabled since Sun 12 Mar 2017 02:10:06
PM EDT
Ready to print.
printer WP4530 is idle. enabled since Thu 09 Mar 2017 09:26:34 PM EST
So what was the purpose for running that command?
--doug
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