hplip scanner support?

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Mon Jan 26 11:26:42 UTC 2009


On Monday 26 January 2009 03:44:24 Anthony Messina wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2009 19:21:26 Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Sometime when I wasn't looking hplip seems to have
> > gotten scanner support added for most of HP's
> > all-in-one products (too bad they didn't retrofit
> > support for their stand alone scanners).
> >
> > Is anyone actually using one of the HP all-in-one
> > devices on fedora 10 and gotten the scanner to work
> > well? Can you scan via the low-level sane command
> > line tools like scanimage?
> >
> > Maybe there is a SANE solution for devices actually
> > available somewhere other than e-bay and antique
> > stores :-).
> >
> > Too bad HP isn't putting penguin logos on their boxes
> > and trumpeting linux support in their product pages,
> > I stumbled across the hplip scanner info by accident :-(.
>
> I use a "HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One" with tremendous results.  I have
> it hooked in via wireless LAN and share it to many Fedora and Windows
> workstations over the  network via saned.

Ditto for the Photosmart C7180.  The only problem I had was realising that the 
wireless was getting a different address each time when it had been powered 
down.  Reserving an address on the router fixed that.  Brilliant!

Anne
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