Scanner on printer not working

[Brian]

On Sun 12 Mar 2017 at 16:21:54 -0400, Doug wrote:

> On 03/12/2017 04:03 PM, Brian wrote:
> >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.

That is correct. 'lpstat -t' relates to printing. Examination of the
scanning aspect has been exhausted. 

> (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?

To obtain the "device" line. It completes the picture of the envy on the
network. I'd learn something which might be useful in the future. Call
it "giving back". Call it payment for help given, if you wish, It is a
bit slow in coming. :)

-- 
Brian.