Scan With your Deskjet F2400 Series

I hate when I forget these kind of things, and scanning with my HP Deskjet F2480 is probably my favourite.

Printing with this all in one printer is so easy with Fedora, but today when I tried to use the scanner functionality, Simple Scan application was unable to detect the scanner (actually it was using my webcam!).

I think I always follow the same steps:

• Check the dmesg, and the printer is there (of course, as I said it prints).
• Then I try scanimage -L and… I can see only the webcam:

  device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M virtual device

• Although this time I’m not using the sane frontend, I try sane-find-scanner anyway:

    # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
    # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
    # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
  
    # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
    # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
  
  found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x7611 [Deskjet F2400 series]) at libusb:002:011
    # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
    # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
  
    # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
  
    # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
    # can't be detected by this program.
  
    # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
    # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
    # necessary.

  Yes, it is there. WTF.

• And then I remember… the last time I had to install a library so sane can talk with the HP scanner: libsane-hpaio.

Then the scanimage will show the scanner as expected, and obviously Simple Scan detects the device and everything works like a charm.

I guess I’ll need to go through all of this again in the foreseeable future, so I hope that me from the future will check the blog before going into troubleshooting mode and wasting half an hour with this thing (again).

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