Network scanner [SOLVED]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 11:25 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: 
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 01:08 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > I have an HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 all-in-one printer/scanner/fax/copier.
> > I have no trouble getting CUPS to print to it, but I'm having trouble
> > getting xsane to find it.  I have the hplip drivers installed, but I'm
> > not sure what has to be configured in xsane to get it to recognize it as
> > a network scanner (as opposed to USB).
> 
> In order to get libsane-hpaio, the part of HPLIP responsible for
> scanning, to know where the scanner is you have to have a CUPS queue
> configured for the printer function of the device using the "hp"
> backend.  All libsane-hpaio does for "network scanning" is look through
> the configured CUPS queues to see which ones have a device URI starting
> with "hp:/...".
> 

Ah, OK.  So I was using the printer as shared from a server.  If I
create a local CUPS entry for the printer, that reveals the scanner.

> Tim.
> */
> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu