I am using Ubuntu 8.04, have downloaded hplip, everyting appears to work as it should but have limited scanning ability & when I press the scan button on the printer / scanner it says there is no computer connected

The "Scan To..." button on HP all-in-ones is not currently supported under
Linux.

On Apr 13, 2009 7:18pm, Kevin Kenny <email address hidden>
wrote:
> New question #67386 on HPLIP:

> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/67386

> I have an HP Officejet J6480 All in one and have successfully downloaded
> hplip. I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I can scan but the image/document comes
> out undersized and I have not been able to change it. Also, if I press
> the scan button on the all in one, it says there is "no computer
> connected". It is as if the computer recognizes the printer but the
> printer is not recognizing the computer. If I produce a document in open
> office. org and send it to print there is no problem. Ultimately i would
> like to be able to scan a text document & save it to be able to edit it
> then.

> --

> You received this question notification because you are a member of HP

> Linux Imaging and Printing, which is an answer contact for HPLIP.

Thanks for that response. Is there a reason that my scan size is smaller
than the original? And is it possible to scan to text to be able to edit
it later?
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 03:36 +0000, dwelch91 wrote:
> Your question #67386 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/67386
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> dwelch91 proposed the following answer:
> The "Scan To..." button on HP all-in-ones is not currently supported under
> Linux.
>
> On Apr 13, 2009 7:18pm, Kevin Kenny <email address hidden>
> wrote:
> > New question #67386 on HPLIP:
>
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/67386
>
>
> > I have an HP Officejet J6480 All in one and have successfully downloaded
> > hplip. I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I can scan but the image/document comes
> > out undersized and I have not been able to change it. Also, if I press
> > the scan button on the all in one, it says there is "no computer
> > connected". It is as if the computer recognizes the printer but the
> > printer is not recognizing the computer. If I produce a document in open
> > office. org and send it to print there is no problem. Ultimately i would
> > like to be able to scan a text document & save it to be able to edit it
> > then.
>
>
> > --
>
> > You received this question notification because you are a member of HP
>
> > Linux Imaging and Printing, which is an answer contact for HPLIP.
>

The printer is going to change the size of the image depending on what the print settings are. For the page to be full sized (for example 8.5x11) you'll want to print the image with 600/1200 dpi fullbleed.

More information on printing fulbleed here:

http://hplipopensource.com/node/325

Hope this helps.

Aaron

As for scanning text that should work, although we don't test it. You could do a search such as:

http://www.google.com/search?q=xsane+ocr&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

We don't provide the functionality per se, it is provided upstream by the application you are scanning with. I'm assuming xsane but there are others.

Aaron