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get driver for HP scanjet 5300C

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driver for scanjet 54xx is available but not 53xx . Is this available HP site does not have a linux driver for this

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

This scanner should be supported correctly by xsane and sane-utils version 1.0.19-11 and higher.

I saw that there might still be regressions in libsane. If the scanner does not work out-of-the-box using xsane, you might need to downgrade libsane to libsane_1.0.18-3ubuntu1

The procedure to downgrade libsane is indicated here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/83587

And there are more workaround solutions here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/221750
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/234841

I also read on forums that this specific scanner only works at 300 DPI resolution, but not at 150 DPI resolution.

I recommend installing all the following programs to try to get your scanner working:

$ sudo aptitude search sane

p gimp2.0-quiteinsane - A Qt based SANE plugin for GIMP 2.0
p libksane-dev - scanner library for KDE 4 (development)
p libksane0 - scanner library for KDE 4 (runtime)
i libsane - API library for scanners
p libsane-dbg - API development library for scanners [debug symbols]
p libsane-dev - API development library for scanners [development files]
p libsane-extras - API library for scanners -- extra backends
p libsane-extras-dbg - API library for scanners -- extra backends [debug symbols]
p libsane-extras-dev - API development library for scanners [development files]
p libsane-perl - Perl bindings for the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Project
p pike7.6-sane - SANE module for Pike
p python-imaging-sane - Python Imaging Library - SANE interface
p python-imaging-sane-dbg - Python Imaging Library - SANE interface (debug extension)
v python2.5-imaging-sane -
v python2.6-imaging-sane -
p quiteinsane - A Qt based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
p sane - scanner graphical frontends
i sane-utils - API library for scanners -- utilities
p xsane - featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
p xsane-common - featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
p xsane-doc - GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)

Regards,

Mark

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