hp psc 1110: scanner not found

Al_ · 03-06-2010, 11:30 AM

Hi
I run Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and have a hp psc 1110 connected by usb. The printer works fine (with hplip and cups). And sane-find-scanner answers:

Quote:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x3011) at libusb:005:004
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

However, scanimage -L reports "No scanners were identified. ...". The strange thing is that the scanner used to function (with xsane as front-end) a few weeks ago. Somehow I broke this functionality, possibly when I installed drivers from HP to get better options for the printer part (e.g., switch color cartridges off). Any idea where I need to look to get it running again?

Al_

tredegar · 03-06-2010, 12:01 PM

Have you tried sudo scanimage -L
?

Quakeboy02 · 03-06-2010, 12:19 PM

Add yourself to the "lp" group and see if that fixes it.

Al_ · 03-06-2010, 03:14 PM

Hi tregdgar

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

Have you tried sudo scanimage -L
?

sudo scanimage -L gives device "`hpaio:/usb/psc_1100_series?serial=HU36KCQ0F6B0' is a Hewlett-Packard psc_1100_series all-in-one"! In reality it is a psc 1110 (not psc 1100) but this is likely a minor thing. And when I now start xsane, it takes several minutes but eventually it finds the device! So the issue is solved.

Honestly, I do not know how/whether/why scanimage -L fixed it, as this should in my opinion just list the devices.

Anyhow, many thanks

Al_

Al_ · 03-06-2010, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quakeboy02

Add yourself to the "lp" group and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was already member of group lp. As per my previous post, the issue is now solved (either 'by itself' or by scanimage -L???)

Al_