[TriLUG] HP Scanjet 5590 and Kubuntu

[Matt Pusateri]

On Mon, September 11, 2006 10:43 am, Douglas Ward wrote:
> I came into the office today to find that my Windows XP workstation
> would no
> longer boot properly.  I need to wipe the hard drive and start over.
> I
> would like to install Kubuntu but am worried that my scanner (mission
> critical) would not work in linux.  I googled on it and see that HP
> did not
> make linux drivers for the device.  Does anyone know of any success in
> using
> this device in linux?  Thanks!
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Sane shows this as unsupported. I quick search on HP turns up nada

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS

I think the ubuntu live/install CD has the HPLIP All in one drivers in
it. Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll work for your scanner as well.

Matt P.