simple scan

[Bret Busby]

On 10/04/2020, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 01:55, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
>
>>   Yesterday it could find the scanner, today it can not find the
>> scanner, I think it is because not that the  driver is install it expects
>> the
>> scanner to be connected to a USB port.
>
> So, connect it to one, then.
>
>>  The scanner is an HP M277DW MFP
>> connected as a LAN wireless device.
>
> MFP means Multi-Function Printer, right?
>
> I think you will find the *printer* works wirelessly but the scanner does
> not.
>
> This is turning into a FAQ.
>
> I don't know for sure but I don't think your device will or can scan
> wirelessly. You will need to connect it directly to the PC for that.
> Changing scanner programs will not help.
>
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Hello.

Can you please clarify this for me?

I have at present,a Samsung CLX-3185FW,which I have
previously,successfully used via USB connection,for both printing,
and, scanning with Simple Scan,with UbuntMATE,up to version 16.04.x.

The unit is apparently wireless, although I have never managed to use
it wireless.

HP apparently bought out the printer division of Samsung, some years
ago, so new Samsung printers are no longer manufactured,and, HP
multi-function devices, such as the one to which this thread relates,
have superseded the Samsung ones.

Thus, when the time comes, to replace this unit, the equivalent would
be an HP one. It may be that I need to replace it, sooner than
anticipated.

My missus, being a Windows software systems developer, has an HP MFP
M130FW mono multifunction unit, which she has used for printing, and,
she believes, scanning, wirelessly, with MS Win10. She wants a colour
unit to replace it, sometime.

My UbuntuMate systems; 16.04 and 19.10, detect the M130FW, number of
rooms and brick walls away; the 16.04  system shows it as a printer
and a WiFi host, and, the 19.10 system shows it as a WiFi host.

Whilst I have not yet successfully printed to it, using WiFi, I am
wondering whether Ubuntu, and/or, Linux in general, provides wireless
scanning through Simple Scan (or its successor), for HP multifunction
units or otherwise, or, whether it is simply better, if getting an HP
multifunction unit, to connect to a Ubuntu Linux system, to not bother
with the wireless functionality, and use USB connection.

I already have (but have not tried its wireless functionality, as
yet), a Samsung M2835FW mono wireless laser printer, which has worked
quite well with USB connection to UbuntuMATe, so, wireless printing,
should not be an issue.

So,could this issue of to what degree, Ubuntu provides wireless
scanning, if at all, for HP multifunction laser printers, via Simple
Scan or its successor,, or,whether I should simply stick with
connection via USB, for scanning via Simple Scan (or its successor)
please be clarified?

I am also mindful of the imminent release (expected in the next couple
of weeks or so) of Ubuntu 20.04.

Thank you in anticipation.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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