HP ENVY 6052e Printer as a SCANNER Question

[Zahid Rahman]

I want to clarify that I have the printer working and the scanner working
on the Ubuntu PC but it is not via hplip software.

Hplip doesn't work.
I  am using Ubuntu mate .

So using menu I use the Ubuntu add printer utility which does work. That is
after I setup on android phone and after I connect to WiFi using the WPS
method.

Also from the menu I use scan  and XSane which is also Ubuntu OS scanning
utility. That works for me.

The hplip is installed successfully
but the device manager fails to find the printer.

I am sure the hp device manager is faulty.
The closest the hp device manager comes is that it is saying a plug-in is
missing for this printer.  Unfortunately when I select the option to
download the plug-in it doesn't.
If it did download and install the plug-in then I would be able to install
the printer and maybe even scanner through the hp device manager.





On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, 13:50 Liam Proven, <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:13, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > I tried originally to do the wireless thing, however, the HP Smart could
> > not find the printer.
>
> What is "HP Smart"? Bear in mind I'm working blind here. I don't have
> an HP printer and I haven't installed HPLIP on something in about 8-10
> years.
>
> > Since I did not want a wireless install in the
> > first place I plugged it in to the USB.
>
> Well, OK, but what I am getting at is that this means it is a _local_
> device _to that PC_. This is not the same as being a network
> printer/scanner.
>
> There is infrastructure in Linux and CUPS to share printers over a
> LAN, but CUPS doesn't have anything to do with scanning and it can't
> help you with sharing a scanner.
>
> Indeed, that I know of, _no_ OS has scanner-sharing facilities. Which
> is why, if you want a scanner to be available to different devices on
> a network, you might want to connect said scanner directly to the
> network.
>
>
> > At the current time the printer prints, simple-scan FINDS it, however,
> > when I press the SCAN button it crashes.
>
> Is this on the local machine to which it's connected, or on another
> machine?
>
> > Since the device was not supported by HPLIP until version 3.20.5 I built
> > and installed that.
>
> I just took a look at
> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/gethplip
>
> It seems that 3.20.5 is not current and the current version is 3.21.8.
> I would always advocate going for the very latest version.
>
> For instance -- I'm not sure what version of Ubuntu you are running,
> but if you are on the current releases (20.04 LTS or 21.04 short-term)
> then 3.20 may be too old and might not support it, whereas I'd expect
> HPLIP $CURRENT to support Ubuntu $CURRENT.
>
> So my 2 suggestions would be:
>
> [1] Use the latest HPLIP
>
> [2] Try attaching the printer to the WLAN.
>
> And supplementary to that, as per Zahid's point:
>
> [3] If you have a smartphone, try setting up the HP tools on that as
> well. Even if you don't want to use it from the phone this could give
> useful info.
>
> There are plenty of pages that will advise you how to install it.
> First 3 on Google:
>
>
> https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/07/install-latest-hplip-ubuntu-20-04-fix/
>
> https://www.edoardovignati.it/how-to-install-hplip-on-ubuntu-20-04/
>
>
> https://www.devmanuals.net/install/ubuntu/ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa/installing-hplip-gui-on-ubuntu20-04.html
>
> About the plugin:
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1070470/how-should-i-install-hplip-binary-proprietary-plugin-driver-for-my-hp-printer-or/1070471#1070471
>
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