scanner not working

[phantom16]

So i have been cruising along using PCLOS, and everything has been working pretty smoothly. So then this evening i needed to scan something, which I figured wouldn't be a problem; i'll just use my hp all-in-one that i have been printing things on fine for a while now. I didn't know what program to use, so i fished around and found some scan utilities under the graphics section; cool. i try and run one, and it says i don't have a scanner attached even though my all-in-one is turned on. weird. i try another program. nothing. i try another, and all it does is splash, and disappear. great... just what i needed at 1:30AM... so i keep trying, change a couple settings and it still won't recognize my  scanner. so i do some searching, and come across this: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/pclinuxos.html, which i thought would help since i noticed my HPLIP was only on version 3.9.10, while the newest version was 3.10.6. However i take one look at that list of junk i would have to do, and decide no way...not this late at night.

So i decide to just print up another piece of paper i needed to, and lo and behold... it doesn't print!
Now im kinda curiously frustrated that my printer is misbehaving...should I reinstall HPLIP, should i just reboot the system...No, I decide to double check that it's plugged in...yea...wasn't plugged in the whole time lol

So I plug it in and print my paper successfully, yay! i try that scanner program again, works without me having to even set anything up. couldn't have been any easier, unless i would have remembered to plug my printer back in after needing to use my thumb drive last week.

[sɔǝʌɐp]

That reminds me of the story of the guy who phoned the computer help line because it wouldn't work during a power cut.

[String6]

Topic should be moved. 

[eor2004]

So i decide to just print up another piece of paper i needed to, and lo and behold... it doesn't print!
Now im kinda curiously frustrated that my printer is misbehaving...should I reinstall HPLIP, should i just reboot the system...No, I decide to double check that it's plugged in...yea...wasn't plugged in the whole time lol

Homer...D'uhh

[Georgetoon]

I beleive The HP package in teh repo should find everything...scanner, printer, etc.  Just make sure you have the scanner in your groups.

[YouCanToo]

So i have been cruising along using PCLOS, and everything has been working pretty smoothly. So then this evening i needed to scan something, which I figured wouldn't be a problem; i'll just use my hp all-in-one that i have been printing things on fine for a while now. I didn't know what program to use, so i fished around and found some scan utilities under the graphics section; cool. i try and run one, and it says i don't have a scanner attached even though my all-in-one is turned on. weird. i try another program. nothing. i try another, and all it does is splash, and disappear. great... just what i needed at 1:30AM... so i keep trying, change a couple settings and it still won't recognize my  scanner. so i do some searching, and come across this: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/pclinuxos.html, which i thought would help since i noticed my HPLIP was only on version 3.9.10, while the newest version was 3.10.6. However i take one look at that list of junk i would have to do, and decide no way...not this late at night.

So i decide to just print up another piece of paper i needed to, and lo and behold... it doesn't print!
Now im kinda curiously frustrated that my printer is misbehaving...should I reinstall HPLIP, should i just reboot the system...No, I decide to double check that it's plugged in...yea...wasn't plugged in the whole time lol

So I plug it in and print my paper successfully, yay! i try that scanner program again, works without me having to even set anything up. couldn't have been any easier, unless i would have remembered to plug my printer back in after needing to use my thumb drive last week.

Perhaps a usb hub would be a good edition, so you wouldn't have to un-plug and remember to plug in your equipment.

[sixthwheel]

Topic should be moved. 

It's a testimonial to PCLOS on how everything just works, as long as everything is plugged in. 

[sɔǝʌɐp]

Topic should be moved. 

It's a testimonial to PCLOS on how everything just works, as long as everything is plugged in. 

Maybe that should be the new slogan: The impossible we do straight away. Miracles take longer.