hp 2840 scan-to-folder button under linux
Well, seems like this question's already been asked-and-answered.
Consider this another vote for 'implementation of scan-to-network' functionality :)
I'm using hplip 2.8.2 under Ubuntu, and I haven't tried to upgrade to 2.8.5 because
prior answers (2008-02-25, by Aaron Albright) imply the feature's not available.
If it _is_ available somewhere, well, just point me at it.
What I'm trying to achieve:
electronic archival of sent/received faxes and scanned documents.
Ideally this would be 'a sent/received fax automatically gets archived' and
'put a document into the document feeder, press the button, it gets archived'
along with the other functions that are already available; like print/fax from
Linux PC; scan from Linux PC; check printer status from Linux PC.
What steps I take:
Currently using xsane to manually scan documents individually.
Specifying number of pages to scan means I have to count them first.
What happens:
Xsane turns the document into a PDF that I can then save wherever I like.
What I think should happen:
I think that support of a commonly-available network sharing mechanism - e.g.
Samba, or FTP - should be available on the printer itself. A fallback position would
be to have the hplip implement the same things the Windows driver does.
Taking the PS input that would normally be fed to the printing engine and blatting
it back out the network port to a Samba share would be good enough for me I think...
the filename could be something like 'YYYYMMDD-
or 'YYYYMMDD-
that's lost upon conversion to an image format and hopefully prevent filename collisions.
Once we have the PS we can do anything :)
Automatic conversion to PDF or TIFF or something like that would be nicer.
Incidentally; under Ubuntu 8.04 apt-get install hplip worked perfectly for all
the supported functionality. This is how things _should_ be installed.
Kudos to you devs for where it's at today, once again we're buying HP product
because it's the only reasonably-priced kit that works well under Linux. Keep it up :)
Regards,
Saliya
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