HP Scanners/Printers My How To

[xenopeek]

Open Synaptic and search for HPLIP

Install HPLIP and HPLIP-GUI

Search for HP Toolbox in the menu under Preferences. Open it

Setup your Scanner/Printer in the HP Toolbox

*you may have to manually enter the ip address of you scanner/printer on your network. it is found by pressing the wifi button on your device
*you may have to manually add yourself to the group lpadmin. install gnome-system-tools and restart your desktop. look for users and groups, under the preferences menu. click on lpadmin and then preferences enter admin password and click on your user and you are done.

Press the SCAN button

Simple Scan will open with your Scanner/Printer listed by default

This will work for your network setups.

This even works on my laptop with my network setup, where simple scan wanted to scan my webcam.

It's that easy once you know

[on4aa]

Thanks for sharing this lizbeth.
I am also happily using hplip for my HP LaserJet printer.

As for HP Scanners, when I left Windows behind, I was very disappointed that HP does not offer a Linux version of its otherwise excellent scanning software.
At least for me Linux' standard SANE scanning program is insanely complicated and not at all user friendly.
I especially missed HP's easy Highlight and Shadow settings.

Luckily, I found an excellent alternative in Epson's iscan software.

OK, I had to buy a new Epson scanner, but that is a negligible price to pay in order to quit the misery world of Windows.
I now own two Epson scanners under Linux: a flatbed and an automatic paper feed. Both work flawless.

In conclusion, HP printer support for Linux is OK, but I prefer Epson scanners under Linux.

PS: I have no financial interests in Epson, nor HP or MicroSoft.