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 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 >
