Scanner works, but you get an image with a lot of horizontal/vertical black stripes. When you import the image with Gimp, you can remove the stripes almost complete.

After much fiddling with Xsane/Sane, it is working as a USB scanner.

This, being a used scanner, I find the stepper motor to be making jagged scans, but that is probably local to this device, not yours.

Color looks good, works as expected otherwise.

Mark_in_Hollywood:

You wrote "After much fiddling" you got the scanner to work!
What exactly did you do????????

I try since ages to get the beast to work under linux...

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Gerhard

I am using the HP F4280.

I purchased the machine on 28 May 2009.

Install the driver from this location:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html

This installs both the required drivers and applications to control the printer/scanner/copier. It is very easy to scan using the software provided by the hplip installer. You are able to save the scanned image in one of many different formats including PDF.

The OCR software stinks. It is not installed with the hplip software but it is available in the software repository.