[sane-devel] HP officejet: access scanner over the network

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 02:26:08 UTC 2009


if the scanner can be reached over the network via hpaio's internal
networking capability, you dont need saned. You just need to tell the
hpaio backend on each machine where the scanner is located. Perhaps
hpaio has a config file for this, look in /etc/sane.d. But the real
experts on that are not on this list...

allan

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Wouter van Marle
<wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
> Allan,
>
> The scanning part (hpaio) is working fine - there is no problem on that
> side.
>
> The problem is on the SANE side: how to install this command within SANE
> so I can access this scanner through xsane and saned. This is why I'm
> asking here again.
>
> Maybe I have to add something in the /etc/sane.d config dir? I don't
> know how saned finds it's scanners!
>
> Wouter
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:40 -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
>> maybe ask the guys that make the hpaio backend? it is part of the hplip project.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Wouter van Marle
>> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
>> > Has anyone an idea on this issue?
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:17 -0600, gobo wrote:
>> >> you need to have hplip installed.  with hplip you can then use hpaio
>> >> to access the scanner across the network.  for example:
>> >>
>> >> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -d
>> >> hpaio:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103 -pv --mode gray >
>> >> $FILE
>> >
>> > OK that part works after substituting my scanner name and ip of course.
>> > So the scanner can be addressed, and is scanning properly.
>> >
>> > But this is not the way I like to do my scanning of course, it's nice
>> > for testing and all. How can I integrate this into a saned server or
>> > whatever, so I can use xsane or another sane compliant software in the
>> > network to access this scanner?
>> >
>> > Previously the HP was connected to the server over USB, and the rest of
>> > the workstations could very easily access the scanner through the saned
>> > interfaces. The workstations are on Mandriva Linux by the way, and could
>> > easily add this scanner through the control panel. Just give the ip of
>> > the server, and the scanner was detected automatically.
>> >
>> > Wouter.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Wouter van Marle
>> >> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am the happy owner of an HP Officejet Pro L7560 (an all-in-one
>> >>> device).
>> >>>
>> >>> Until recently I had this connected to my server through USB, and
>> >>> printing and scanning all worked fine. Of course using sane on the
>> >>> server to access the scanner from the workstations.
>> >>>
>> >>> Now I have a new office, all is rearranged, and the Officejet is
>> >>> connected directly to the network. It gets it's IP from the server by
>> >>> DHCP, which I configured to be fixed, so far so good. Printing (though
>> >>> Cups) works like a charm after some googling to get the correct way to
>> >>> address the printer, but now scanning! How can I do this? A couple of
>> >>> hours searching Google didn't give me a single clue... the scanner is
>> >>> not found automatically by Sane, and no idea on how to address it.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm looking for one of two solutions:
>> >>> 1) server is talking to the scanner one way or another, and then
>> >>> shares
>> >>> the scanner with the workstations through the existing Sane interface.
>> >>> 2) the workstations (three only, it's a small network) talk to the
>> >>> scanner directly (they are all on the same 192.168.2.0/24 subnet) (if
>> >>> easy/automatically to configure on the workstations).
>> >>>
>> >>> Wouter.
>> >>>
>> >>>
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