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xsane negative scanning on HP 3210

Asked by Josef Sikora

My operating systems is OpenSuse 10.2 with the following RPMs:

hplip-1.6.10-25
hplip-hpijs-1.6.10-25
sane-1.0.18-34
xsane-0.991-32
sane-frontends-1.0.14-44

My printer is an HP 3210 All-in-One which has an overhead light in the lid of the scanning bed for negatives and slides. The overhead light does not come on when I scan a negative using xsane. I have tried selecting all of the negative types (standard negative, Agfa negative, etc) but none of them seem to force the light to come on. The result of a scan is a white picture with a few discolored lines. The scanner works properly under Windows.

Is this function supposed to work? How is it activated?

Thank you for any help.

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Josef Sikora (jvsikora) said : 		#1

I forgot to mention that I also selected the button "Negative: Invert
colors for scanning negatives" at the bottom of the XSane GUI. This
produced a very dark purple image and, again, the overhead light does
not turn on.

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:19 +0000, Josef Sikora wrote:
> New question #27215 on HPLIP:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/27215
>
> My operating systems is OpenSuse 10.2 with the following RPMs:
>
> hplip-1.6.10-25
> hplip-hpijs-1.6.10-25
> sane-1.0.18-34
> xsane-0.991-32
> sane-frontends-1.0.14-44
>
> My printer is an HP 3210 All-in-One which has an overhead light in the lid of the scanning bed for negatives and slides. The overhead light does not come on when I scan a negative using xsane. I have tried selecting all of the negative types (standard negative, Agfa negative, etc) but none of them seem to force the light to come on. The result of a scan is a white picture with a few discolored lines. The scanner works properly under Windows.
>
> Is this function supposed to work? How is it activated?
>
> Thank you for any help.
>

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Josef,

HPLIP does not currently support negative scanning. Currently we aren't planning on adding this functionality for past products, we -may- be adding it for future products, however we are still working on the technical considerations for implementation.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Aaron

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Josef Sikora (jvsikora) said : 		#3

Thanks Aaron Albright, that solved my question.