On 4/3/07, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Back in the FC3 days, I was helping a person convert
to Fedora from Window$. They had an HP 1320 Printer,
scanner, copier. The Linux drivers at that time could
support it either as a printer or a scanner but not
both. I ended up attaching it to a box running Window$
and let it go at that.
Does anyone have any recent experience connecting these
type devices to a Linux box? Are the HP PSC devices
now fully supported?
Thanks for any advice.
Bob Styma
I'm not sure for your specific model, but once you have the HP
software that is available in Fedora, (and installed by default) your
PSC shoudl work pefectly. Both printing and scanning work with my HP
PSC 1410
I have an HP3055 connected by the NETWORK interface. I print to it using
foomatic HPIJS drivers and it works like a charm.
The installation produced an HP-Fax printer attached to the same
internal network address. I presume that I can fax from OpenOffice or
using ksendfax, although I have not tried.
More importantly, for me the scanner works over the network.
It took a little while for me to get sane and xsane set up, but once set
up, xsane scans *using the document feeder* without problem.
For more useful scanning of bulk items, I bashed together (pun intended)
a small script which allows you to specify the place, basename, start
number, number of scans and increment, so you can scan 'mydocs001' to
'mydocs013' by 2's then flip the stack to record mydocs002 through
mydocs14, or if the stack gets flipped over, mydocs014 down by -2.
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#!/bin/bash
# Scan for letter size pages, counted
export hpaio=hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_3055?ip=192.168.1.12
if [ "$1" = "" ] || [ "$2" = "" ] || [ "$3" = "" ] || [ "$4" = "" ] ||
[ "$5" = "" ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "
--h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ] ;
then
echo -e ""
echo -e " ** Missing Command Parameters ** \n"
echo -e " This script takes five parameters:\n"
echo -e " 1 The pathname of the folder in which to store the scans."
echo -e " 2 The preliminary portion of the file name."
echo -e " 3 The starting number portion of the file name."
echo -e " 4 The number of scans to take."
echo -e " 5 The increment of the number portion."
echo -e " See also man scanimage. "
echo -e " Present Settings:Path $1, Name $2, Start $3, Count $4,
Increment $5\n"
exit;
fi
cd $1
echo -e " Please wait while scanning commences.......\n"
scanimage --device-name=$hpaio --format=tiff --mode gray --resolution
600 -x 216 -y 280 -p -v --batch=$2%d.tif --batch
-start=$3 --batch-count=$4 --batch-increment=$5
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HTH
R. Geoffrey Newbury
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