Re: SANE default scanner

[John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com>]

I was having the same problem with the same model mfp. I had to go into 
the HPLIP Toolbox app and setup the printer. Once I did that xsane and 
simple scan could find the scanner.

On 2020-07-27 8:40 a.m., Nicolas George wrote:
> Georgi Naplatanov (12020-07-27):
> > https://linux.die.net/man/1/scanimage
> >
> > "The -d or --device-name options must be followed by a SANE device-name
> > like 'epson:/dev/sg0' or 'hp:/dev/usbscanner0'. A (partial) list of
> > available devices can be obtained with the --list-devices option (see
> > below). If no device-name is specified explicitly, scanimage reads a
> > device-name from the environment variable SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE. If this
> > variable is not set, scanimage will attempt to open the first available
> > device. "
> Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, it does not work: for GUI tools, this environment
> variable pre-selects the device in the device selection dialog, but it
> does not make it appear if it is not detected (?!???@!%@?!!!?).
>
> Also, it works for only one scanner.
>
> Regards,
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Regards,

John Boxall