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does xsane support officejet J6480

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I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and HP all in one officejet J6480. I installed is as a fax (as the only options were fax or printer).

It does not appear that Xsane supports this scanner. I looked at all supported HP scanners on SANE's website and could not find J6480. If it does not, then is there another software package I could use?

Thanks,

bb

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Best dwelch91 (dwelch91) said : 		#1

Officejets are supported by HPLIP. Follow the instructions here:

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/downloads.html

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM, bb <email address hidden>wrote:

> New question #63432 on HPLIP:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/63432
>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and HP all in one officejet J6480. I installed is
> as a fax (as the only options were fax or printer).
>
> It does not appear that Xsane supports this scanner. I looked at all
> supported HP scanners on SANE's website and could not find J6480. If it
> does not, then is there another software package I could use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> bb
>
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> Linux Imaging and Printing, which is an answer contact for HPLIP.
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bb (ben-beker) said : 		#2

Thanks you for the pointer to additional instructions. I did have HPLIP installed.

It appears that the problem I was having was due to the office jet driver being installed as fax only. I added the office jet also as a printer and once the printer driver was installed, the xsane software recognized it as a scanner. Problem solved.

bb