I was recently given an HP Officejet 6310 all-in-one. While I could care less about printing, I have a laser and can use wife's inkjet for the rare times I need color so any ink cartridges in this one would just dry out. What I really want is to be able to use scanning over the network and hopefully the document feeder. So I can scan multiple docs as a batch instead of having to change by hand.

Has anybody done this before with Slackware? I went to HP's site and didn't find Slackware listed for hplib download.

I went to the sane mailing list, but my posts keep getting bounced due to "greylist", and that never happened before.

tj

If you mean hplip it is installed by default in Slackware. The printer is wireless so I would guess that the first step would be to see if you can attach it to your wireless network. There is a manager program called wicd in /extra. I haven't got a wireless printer so I can't test it here, but I guess the first step would be to get the printer working, then look at the sane website for how to use it over the network. Oh and also add yourself to the lp and scanner groups.

samac

I've written a tutorial about this, look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...r_over_network

I hope this will help.

Markus

Hi Wufo,

Here is the full hplib distribution index with Slackware listed.

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/index.html

Best of luck!
Chris

Thanks, I'll give your tutorial a try tonight if time allows.

tj

I looked at the tutorial and it is for a scanner that is hooked to a linux system which acts as the server. My HP 6310 has built in wired ethernet networking, it can stand alone connected directly to the network. So, I want to use it a such using its server.

tj

Hi wufo,

you're right, but you may look at the client-configuration, I think this will be needed anyway.

Markus