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Offline alphaace

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[Solved]: HP C410a
« on: August 30, 2011, 03:14:04 PM »
Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to get a HP Photosmart Premium C410a printer working. It connects just fine to my wireless network. PCLOS then detects it fine and finds the drivers and adds it to my printers. However, when I try to print nothing comes out. http://localhost:631 shows the printer but the print queue is empty. I'm using PCLOS 2011.6 with all the latest updates and hplip installed.

Thanks for your help!
« Last Edit: August 30, 2011, 09:23:41 PM by alphaace »

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Re: HP C410a
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 03:33:12 PM »
Yay, it prints now :-). Now, I just can't get it to scan over the wireless network, any ideas?

Thanks!

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Re: HP C410a
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 05:24:54 PM »
Did you try with Xsane or Skanlite? Can you access your printer via web browser?
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[Solved] Re: HP C410a
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 06:45:40 PM »
So after removing my printer from the configuration menu, then going to hp printing tool and adding it then, I'm able to scan and print. Yay! Xsane works great. Here's my problem now:

On my fiance's desktop, also running the latest pclos 2011.6, the xsane window freezes for about 4 minutes while "scanning for devices". It then opens fine. On mine, it's nearly instant, what gives?

Addendum: When I go to set up scanner in the PCLOS control center, it crashes and says abnormally exited.

Addendum 2:  The scannerdrake in PCLOS Control Center does not crash, it just takes 4 minutes to open. I feel like it's getting timed out somewhere and keeps trying to scan.... is there a way to clear everything.

Solution: After reinstalling everything I could find in synaptic with absolutely no luck, I simply took the entire /etc/sane.d/ directory into a tar, transferred it to my fiance's desktop and overwrote (after making a cautious backup) the /etc/sane.d/ folder she had. After a reboot, everything worked smoothly. I guess it was some setting buried deep down. Works now though :-).

Great Printer/Scanner/All in one for those that are interested by the way and works great over wireless :-).
« Last Edit: August 30, 2011, 09:22:31 PM by alphaace »