HP All in One Support

[R. G. Newbury]

> On 4/3/07, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
>> Back in the FC3 days, I was helping a person convert
>> to Fedora from Window$.  They had an HP 1320 Printer,
>> scanner, copier.  The Linux drivers at that time could
>> support it either as a printer or a scanner but not
>> both.  I ended up attaching it to a box running Window$
>> and let it go at that.
>>
>> Does anyone have any recent experience connecting these
>> type devices to a Linux box?  Are the HP PSC devices
>> now fully supported?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>>
>> Bob Styma
> 
> I'm not sure for your specific model, but once you have the HP
> software that is available in Fedora, (and installed by default) your
> PSC shoudl work pefectly. Both printing and scanning work with my HP
> PSC 1410

I have an HP3055 connected by the NETWORK interface. I print to it using 
foomatic HPIJS drivers and it works like a charm.
The installation produced an HP-Fax printer attached to the same 
internal network address. I presume that I can fax from OpenOffice or 
using ksendfax, although I have not tried.

More importantly, for me the scanner works over the network.
It took a little while for me to get sane and xsane set up, but once set 
up, xsane scans *using the document feeder* without problem.

For more useful scanning of bulk items, I bashed together (pun intended) 
a small script which allows you to specify the place, basename, start 
number, number of scans and increment, so you can scan   'mydocs001' to 
'mydocs013' by 2's then flip the stack to record mydocs002 through 
mydocs14, or if the stack gets flipped over, mydocs014 down by -2.

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#!/bin/bash
# Scan for letter size pages, counted

export hpaio=hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12

if  [ "$1" = "" ] || [ "$2" = "" ] || [ "$3" = "" ] || [ "$4" = "" ] || 
[ "$5" = "" ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "
--h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ] ;
  then
  echo -e ""
  echo -e "      ** Missing Command Parameters ** \n"
  echo -e "      This script takes five parameters:\n"
  echo -e "      1 The pathname of the folder in which to store the scans."
  echo -e "      2 The preliminary portion of the file name."
  echo -e "      3 The starting number portion of the file name."
  echo -e "      4 The number of scans to take."
  echo -e "      5 The increment of the number portion."
  echo -e "      See also man scanimage. "
  echo -e "      Present Settings:Path $1, Name $2, Start $3, Count $4, 
Increment $5\n"
  exit;
fi

cd $1
  echo -e "      Please wait while scanning commences.......\n"

scanimage --device-name=$hpaio --format=tiff --mode gray --resolution 
600 -x 216 -y 280 -p -v --batch=$2%d.tif --batch
-start=$3 --batch-count=$4 --batch-increment=$5
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HTH


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