HP Deskjet 2720 scanner not working

teboil12 · 12-08-2020, 11:34 PM

Hello

I have a HP Deskjet 2720 installed to my laptop (HP). The former printer, a HP Deskjet 3733 (broke down) was replaced by this new one. Result: no way to get XSane working, luckily I got the printer working through localhost 631. The computer fails to find easyscan. Lsusb tells me that a Hewlett Packard is connected. Is there perhaps a way to use another driver instead of HP Deskjet 2700 series? A solution, anyone?

teboil12 · 12-08-2020, 11:42 PM

Forgot to mention: The laptop has Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.3 installed.

beachboy2 · 12-09-2020, 03:30 AM

teboil12,

I have always found that the hplip walkthrough works:

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-i.../install/index

You could also try installing simple-scan:

Code:

sudo apt install simple-scan

teboil12 · 12-09-2020, 08:48 AM

I've already been through those steps numerous times, no use. When trying to scan through Hplip it tells me that Driver Plug-in is required. It also gives me the lie that I have chosen to skip the Plug-in installation or entered the incorrect password. Both are lies.
When running Hp-plugin from the terminal the Plug-in Installation keeps searching "for ever" without any result.
Xsane cannot find any scanner, simple-scan cannot either. I guess I'll have to live with this.
Thanks anyway...

cwizardone · 12-09-2020, 09:02 AM

FWIF,

https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-i...nting/gethplip

teboil12 · 12-09-2020, 01:12 PM

I already have HPLIP version 3.20.11 installed. Printer working, scanner nada. I think I'll have to start using VueScan though I hate it!

teboil12 · 12-09-2020, 02:10 PM

Tried to install Driver Plug-in through the terminal again. Failed, I got the message that I don't have Python gobject/dbus installed. I'm not very good at this, can someone show me step by step how to install it?

computersavvy · 12-10-2020, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teboil12

I already have HPLIP version 3.20.11 installed. Printer working, scanner nada. I think I'll have to start using VueScan though I hate it!

The plugin for the scanner is here
Also, if you are using xsane there is (on fedora at least) a package libsane-hpaio needed.