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Not Getting HP Scanjet 4890 to work

Asked by Dirk Beukes

Unlike other devices that I connected to my notebook, Ubuntu did not automatically make my HP Scanjet 4890 ready for use. I am unable to download drivers from internet as Ubuntu is not listed under the choices of operating systems.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsusb; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#2

Hello,

You need to install sane and xsane from the Synaptic Package manager to start with.

Regards,

Allan :)

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Michael Wood (mwood) said : 		#3

It looks like your scanner does not have a Linux driver :(

http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/hp-scanjet-4850.html

You can see how well supported various scanners are here:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

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