Re: HP Officejet 5110

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:19 +0200, Guido Milanese wrote:
> I have recently bought this all-in-one printer + scanner etc. and I am trying 
> to use it under Linux (Mandriva LE 2005). I follwed the instruction I found 
> at 
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-OfficeJet_5110
> 
> and I am using HPIJS 2.1.1. Printing is basically OK, but scanning is still a 
> dream (under Windows it's all right, so no hardware problem).
> 
> The abovementioned page says:
> 
> Scanning works using the HPOJ  low-level driver together with its SANE  
> backend "hpoj".
> 
> The problem is that scanimage -L returns "No scanners were identified." ( even 
> if I run the command as root), so I think that the scanner is simply not 
> seen. Also trying with GUI tools, as Mandrake drakscanner, does not find the 
> scanner.
> 
> Other info:
> (1) at /etcsane.d ther is not a configuration file for my scanner. Witing a 
> conf file is mandatory or does SANE read a default file?
> (2) the dll.conf file has these lines:
> # HP OfficeJet backend homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/
> # Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed:
> hpoj
> niash
> hp_rts88xx
> hpaio
> 
> I have also these files:
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so.1
> /usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpoj.so.1.0
> /usr/lib/libhpojip.so.0
> /usr/lib/libhpojip.so.0.1
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so.1
> /usr/lib/libsane-hpoj.so.1.0
> 
> Is it all right?
> 
> Maybe it's a mistake to use both HPOJ and HPIJS: the hpoj page at sourceforge 
> says: "HPOJ and HPLIP can co-exist on the same PC, but they cannot access the 
> same device".
> 
> Can I ask for your help? I tried also in other lists, but had very limited 
> success...
> 
> Best regards from Italy,
> guido
> 
> 
Hi again guido

my mistake the code for hplip is on sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hpinkjet

laurence



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