Dear Till, Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that for me. I have installed the printer in CUPS, the uri is hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.168.2.9
Printing works, so the above setting/uri is for sure correct. However scanimage -L doesn't list any scanners. Wouter. On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 09:46 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > To be able to access your scanner without supplying the scanner URI > (hpaio:/...) and so also to be able to access it with saned and xsane, > you need to set up a CUPS queue for the printing part of your device > (with CUPS URI hp:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103). Then > you can do the scanimage command without the -d option: > > scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -pv --mode gray > $FILE > > and use also any other frontend without specifying your scanner. And if > you run saned, it will share your scanner then. > > Till > > Wouter van Marle wrote: > > Has anyone an idea on this issue? > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:17 -0600, gobo wrote: > >> you need to have hplip installed. with hplip you can then use hpaio > >> to access the scanner across the network. for example: > >> > >> scanimage -x 215.9 -y 297 -d > >> hpaio:/net/Officejet_J6400_series?ip=192.168.2.103 -pv --mode gray > > >> $FILE > > > > OK that part works after substituting my scanner name and ip of course. > > So the scanner can be addressed, and is scanning properly. > > > > But this is not the way I like to do my scanning of course, it's nice > > for testing and all. How can I integrate this into a saned server or > > whatever, so I can use xsane or another sane compliant software in the > > network to access this scanner? > > > > Previously the HP was connected to the server over USB, and the rest of > > the workstations could very easily access the scanner through the saned > > interfaces. The workstations are on Mandriva Linux by the way, and could > > easily add this scanner through the control panel. Just give the ip of > > the server, and the scanner was detected automatically. > > > > Wouter. > > > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Wouter van Marle > >> <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I am the happy owner of an HP Officejet Pro L7560 (an all-in-one > >>> device). > >>> > >>> Until recently I had this connected to my server through USB, and > >>> printing and scanning all worked fine. Of course using sane on the > >>> server to access the scanner from the workstations. > >>> > >>> Now I have a new office, all is rearranged, and the Officejet is > >>> connected directly to the network. It gets it's IP from the server by > >>> DHCP, which I configured to be fixed, so far so good. Printing (though > >>> Cups) works like a charm after some googling to get the correct way to > >>> address the printer, but now scanning! How can I do this? A couple of > >>> hours searching Google didn't give me a single clue... the scanner is > >>> not found automatically by Sane, and no idea on how to address it. > >>> > >>> I'm looking for one of two solutions: > >>> 1) server is talking to the scanner one way or another, and then > >>> shares > >>> the scanner with the workstations through the existing Sane interface. > >>> 2) the workstations (three only, it's a small network) talk to the > >>> scanner directly (they are all on the same 192.168.2.0/24 subnet) (if > >>> easy/automatically to configure on the workstations). > >>> > >>> Wouter. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > >>> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > >>> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > >>> > >> > > > > > >