OfficeJet 6200 Series Scanning and Faxing on F10

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 15:19:06 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:51 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I have F10 running and reasonably well tuned now.
> 
> ...But I'm having trouble figuring out how to get my HP OfficeJet 6210xi
> all-in-one working correctly. This was pretty straight forward in F9,
> but has me scratching my head with F10. So far, all I can do is print to
> it. No scanning, no faxing.
> 
> I loaded the xsane libraries for HP OfficeJet printers, but when I
> launch XSane (or try to use it via Gimp), it comes back that it can not
> find any scanners. Help!!! I need to scan receipts for expense reports,
> so this is critical for me.
> 
> Next, I'd like to be able to use the fax features. I never tried this in
> F9 - I just assumed it would work since it found the fax features via
> the printer setup automatically. But in F10 this also seems to be
> non-existent.
> 
> Can someone point me to the relevant packages or magic incantation to
> make this stuff work?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris

I'm using OfficeJet J5783 on F9 and it works just fine.
Two questions.
A. Scanner: Did you install libsane-hpaio package?
B. Fax: Did you try using the HP Fax driver? (Within the
system-config-printer)

- Gilboa




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