Subject: Re: scanner hp psc1402

[Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@HiWAAY.net>]

> Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>
> > On Sat, March 25, 2006 13:19, steef said:
> >  
> >
> > > hello folks,
> > >
> > > samebody out there who can tell me how to get the scanner of a hp 
> > > psc1402
> > > working?
> > >
> > > (tried out sane, xsane and the like already: without success and 
> > > googling
> > > was of no help. printer etc. works excellent with hplip)
I have sane, xsane working with my HP psc 1210xi but have the following 
packages:

gayle@Gcomm:~$ dpkg -l | grep hp
ii  foomatic-db-hp 1.5-20050420-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - 
database
ii  hp-ppd         0.5            HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) 
files
ii  hp2xx          3.4.4-2        A HPGL converter into some vector- and 
raste
ii  hp48cc         1.3-3.1        C-like compiler which produces HP48 RPN
ii  hpijs          2.1.2+0.9.2-2  HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS 
drive
ii  hplip          0.9.2-2        HP Linux Printing and Imaging System 
(hplip)
ii  hplip-data     0.9.2-2        HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files
rc  hpoj           0.91-4         HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj)
ii  hpscanpbm      0.3a-11        HP ScanJet scanning utility
gayle@Gcomm:~$ dpkg -l | grep sane
ii  libsane        1.0.15-9       API library for scanners
ii  libsane-extras 1.0.15.9       API library for scanners -- extra backends
ii  sane-utils     1.0.15-9       API library for scanners -- utilities
ii  xsane          0.97-3         GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE 
(Scanner Ac
ii  xsane-common   0.97-3         GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE 
(Scanner Ac

   Perhaps you didn't get all the needed packages?  I think the hpijs 
package was more useful to me.  YMMV.

> > > regards,
> > >
> > > steef
> > > --
> > >
> > >     
> >
> >
> > Hi, not sure about psc1402, but for my psc2175 I use vuescan, very nice
> > and many options for scanning and output format.
> >   
>
> hi,
>
> got the last package of vuescan from a hamrick-site (.tgz). (thanks!!) 
> put it in my home_file and *untarred* it. it should work for the 1400 
> hp series ( i controlled that), but on my machine (sarge, 2.6.8-2-386 
> standard kernel) it says :"there is no scan-device on this machine"
>
> i am confused.
>
> anybody knows how this can happen?

No, I was following the advice in Hill, Harris, and Vyas,  Debian 
GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, (Indianapolis, Indiana), (c) 2005, pp. 236-238.

I don't know if my later kernel is a factor or not.


> thanks,
>
> steef

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