I bought the subject printer earlier this week, installed it with the Ethernet interface (because I've multiple systems using it) and it's working just fine (love the automagic duplex for printing on both sides of the paper, too).

I rarely scan anything (this printer replaced a dying Photosmart that I did use with xsane on rare occasions) and I'm wondering what might be the best approach for scanning before I dig in and probably get frustrated.

The printer is capable of scanning to a file directly (it assumes you have Windows of a Mac). I also assume (shame on me), that I can connect the USB cable and use, say, xsnae with it without screwing up network printing.

Before I get to messing around, I'm wondering if anyone has experience with one of these and has successfully done one or the other scanning methods?

Appreciate any advice.

If this is one of those "all-in-one" HP office products then scanning should be supported by hplip.

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I have an HP Officejet Pro 8600 (N911a) installed. It is connected to 1 Linux machine via a USB connection and accessed from another Linux machine via the printer's built-in WIFI. Both Linux machines have the latest HPLIP and sane software installed.

Scanning works great on both machines. The built-in web server and web based scanning interface work fine. Of course, you still need to put the material to be scanned on the machine so you can't be too far away.

Dave

Never even thought to look at HPLIP, cripes.

Yup, opens up xsane, scans, viola.

A little more looking around and, if I hook up the phone line, I can fax from HPILP too.

Dang, those guys are good.

Thanks.

Thanks for the reply -- as indicated a little earlier (thanks to cwizadone), it works just fine from any machine connected to the LAN. Printing is just print, scanning is via HPLIPs panel. Who knew. This stuff is supposed to be hard isn't it?

I just wish HP supported their standalone scanners with hplip, but they don't...