HP laserjet 1536 dnf/ MFP does not scan

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Good day,

We have HP laserjet 1536 MFP in the office and cannot make it scan anything (we do not use fax, printing works fine). OS ubuntu 10.10, HPLIP package installed.

Marius

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Best Sebyan Wach (baswint-2) said :
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Hi,
I made this HP 1536 MFP to work finally.
It's a network printer, scanner and copy machine.
If Xsane doesn't find any devices there are some things to do:
1. install libsane-extras
2. create symbolic link: ln -s /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0 /usr/lib/libhpmud.so
3. install the new hplip (it worked for me)
You need the latest hplip package from the HP official site: hplip-3.11.3a.run [this is the latest as per Apr 2011]
Check your current package:
debnslee04#sudo dpkg -l hplip
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-==================
ii hplip 3.9.2-3ubuntu4 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)

Download the latest package from the official HP website:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html

After downloading the file you have to chmod 777 on the file and run it;
The installer will guide you, choose custom, with no fax and no html help files;
It will prompt for 4 or 5 required dependency, you have to install the missing dependency either with apt-get install <package> or you open synaptic package manager and install this packages - because the names of the package does not match with the error message printed on the screen.
In my case I installed:
libgtk2.0-dev
libtool
libcupsimage2-dev
libsane-dev
libsnmp-dev
python-qt4-dbus

After intstallation I restarted some services[you can reboot your computer] and a HP tray will appear on the panel after reboot, you have to open it and choose to install a missing plugin.
After this plugin installation done automatically, the scanner worked smooth, I use Xsane Image scanning program.

Good luck,
Seb

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morlock (m-tauba) said :
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Hello, Seb,

Many thanks, installing newest version of HPLIP and libsane-extras helped, I can scan now with both, xsane and simple.

Thanks again,-

Marius