How to get HP Scanjet Professional 3000 working with OpenSuse 12.1

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Hello community,

I finally got a HP Scanjet Proffessional 3000 Document scanner for mobile use (I did not select the model myself). It is fine hardware, but seems not to be supported in linux. I tried yast → scanner, but it is not listed.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing tells Sorry, HP Scanjet single function scanners are not supported by HPLIP. For possible Linux support, please visit: SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy, but it is not listed.

Is it possible to use the windows driver through wine? (I guess this is a rather stupid question).
Is there any other, preferably not to dangerous for the hardware, way to try using a scanner not supported by SANE?

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Nikos78 wrote:
> I finally got a HP Scanjet Proffessional 3000 Document scanner …
> Is there any other, preferably not to dangerous for the hardware, way
> to try using a scanner not supported by SANE?

As a first step, plug it in, run ‘lsusb’ and tell us what it reports.

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that would be

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:3d05 Hewlett-Packard

thanx for looking into this

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Nikos78 wrote:
> that would be
>
> Code:
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> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:3d05 Hewlett-Packard
> --------------------
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> thanx for looking into this

Ho hum. So it’s not listed in the SANE lists :frowning:

Somebody who knows something may pop up on here, but IMHO you’re more
likely to get a response on the opensuse mailing list, which the suse
guru watches. Or just go straight to the sane mailing list or IRC and
ask there would perhaps be quickest.

Sorry, HTH, Dave

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Yes, I was afraid it was not such an easy task. I will try the SANE mailing list, as this seems to be a very active project. But of course, anybody with any other ideas is welcome…

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Just wanted to give a bit feedback. I finally got the scanner to work with a driver provided on the sane mailing list.

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I was lurking on this thread, and I’m glad to read its working for you now. For anyone else who may be curious about the sane mailing list, if one types:


man sane

one will read:


SANE mailing list
         There is a mailing list for the purpose of discussing the SANE standard and its implementations: sane-devel.  
         Despite its  name,  the  list  is  not  only intended  for  developers, but also for users. There are also some 
         more lists for special topics, however, for users, sane-devel is the right list. How to subscribe and 
         unsubscribe: http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html.

ie the URL is : SANE - Mailing Lists and IRC Channel

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hey Nikos78

i am trying to get the same scanner work on my linux machine. can you please post the name or link of the driver that you are using?

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Hello Keshov,

give me two more days, I don’t have the laptop with me right now.

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The drivers were sent to me privately from somebody at hp, who works on the sane project. As for a place to publicly download them, the answer I got was:

HP doesn’t have a consistent strategy for dealing with Linux. Therefore we don’t officially publish these drivers yet. They are only given out as needed when someone contacts HP

So, I would suggest contacting HP…also in order to increase the awareness for the existence of linux users on these devices.

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thank you, Nikos.

it is funny - the way HP want to deal with linux. i would let them know that there are underestimating the number of linux users

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In general, HP have a very good reputation with Linux support regarding their printers/multifunction devices, but unusually, the Scanjet range seems to be more problematic with respect to SANE drivers (depending on model).

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I also must say, that they sent me the the driver, even though I did not contact them directly…but it is a pity that they won’t support it officially.

Until that scanner (which is really good as a piece of hardware) I never had any problems with HP printers and desktop scanners.