HP Office Jet All-in-One scanning

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:04:10 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I was looking for an inexpensive scanner to use under Linux.
> > Unfortunately every single one at Fry's for less than $100 is not
> > currently supported by Sane. Too bad...
> >
> >    Then I started looking at the HP All-in-One printer/scanner/copier
> > boxes and found that there is a different set of drivers for using
> > these devices:
> >
> > http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Apparently it's managed by HP themselves which is cool.
> >
> >    Does anyone here have any direct experience with this set of
> > drivers and how well it works?
> 
> Nope.  I use two scanners at home, an old Mustek (parallel) and a Canon
> (USB), both of which work well under SANE.

That was my original plan, but as plans go it hasn't worked out so
well just yet. I used Sane for my dad's expensive all-in-one and it's
worked fine, although it does seem to get buggered up by updates now
and again. However it seems that I cannot find a new, inexpensive
scanner supported by Sane right now.

Two ideas:

1) Buy what we want and use it under Windows until Sane catches up, if ever.
2) Buy an HP for a bit more money and use the HP drivers. Seems
reasonable, except it's a bit more money... ($40...)

Probably will go with #2 as both my wife and son are now on Linux and
I don't want to do anything that goes against their momentum.

Thanks,
Mark