Well done. The printer was detected correctly and the HPOJ ptal driver was 
installed and printing worked fine.

I have a few comments to make though. Printerdrake chooses to setup the ptal 
driver as the following device:

mlc:usb:0

and if it is setup with that name, scanning will NOT work even if the sane.d 
settings for hp are changed.

If the name is the same as the device identified by the ptal-init setup 
program to something like this:

mlc:usb:OfficeJet_G55

then scanning will work fine if the file is edited in /etc/sane.d/hp.conf to 
look like this:

mlc:usb:OfficeJet_G55
option connect-ptal


A better option is the following:
Start the device as the detected device name and add a new entry into 
/etc/sane.d at the same time and call it
hpoj.conf (that way the hp.conf file is not modified) and make it:

mlc:usb:$devicename
option connect-ptal

where $devicename is that detected and setup by ptal-init

Then scanning will automatically work in xsane and all other gui scanner 
programs as well.

Scannerdrake as you mentioned does not setup these devices, but instead of 
saying "not supported" it should say "setup with printerdrake"

nb: This is a copy of a post I made on mandrakeforum.
Keep up the good work!
Con.

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