Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scanning with HP DJ
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 15:58:38
Message-Id: 87fuggwteo.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] scanning with HP DJ by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, May 07 2017, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > 170506 allan gottlieb wrote:
4 >> On Sat, May 06 2017, Philip Webb wrote:
5 >>> I have an HP printer, which also copies & can scan,
6 >>> but it isn't supported by Sane-backends & would require much work.
7 >> Do you have hplip and hplip-plugin merged ?
8 >> I have SANE_BACKENDS="" and can scan from the glass with no problems.
9 >> My HP all-in-one is an 8600.
10 >
11 > My notes tell me :
12 >
13 > HP DJ 2510 : 131225
14 >
15 > Scanning doesn't work w Sane :
16 > hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet_aio/deskjet_2510_series.html ;
17 > it uses 'digital sending' via network to shared dir,
18 > wh requires much setting-up & lack any fine-tuning via Xsane.
19 >
20 > If the situation has changed since 2013, I wb interested to know.
21 >
22 > I have hplip-3.16.3 installed, but not hplip-plugin .
23 > There's no stable version of the latter,
24 > which wants to install/upgrade 16 pkgs & conflicts with other stuff.
25
26 You are right about hplip; I don't have it merged (my system is mostly
27 stable gentoo).
28
29 I don't know about the DJ 2510.
30
31 allan