[sane-devel] Hello, and HP C3180 drivers

2010-11-12 Thread Robert Charlesworth
Thanks Alan Johannes, I didn't know about HPLIP, and didn't realise that it is included with my Ubuntu distro! Scanning seems to work fine, both with the Simple Scan frontend and x-sane (not installed by default). Seems that's the end of my driver writing project then ;-) Never mind, I have an

[sane-devel] Hello, and HP C3180 drivers

2010-11-10 Thread Robert Charlesworth
Hello all, I've just joined this mailing list, having used Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of months after 'rediscovering' Linux on an Open University course. I have an old HP C3180 all-in-one Printer Scanner Copier, which no longer prints, but I still want to retain as a scanner. The SANE database

[sane-devel] Hello, and HP C3180 drivers

2010-11-10 Thread m. allan noah
It is possible that this scanner is already supported by the hplip project. They produce a package of sane-compatible drivers, which might already come with your distro. allan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robert Charlesworth rhcharlesworth at googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I've just