Anybody have luck Scanning from HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 to Ubuntu Linux

Question

Having no issues printing to HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 from Ubuntu. Ubuntu found network printer and installed ok using closest driver "OfficeJet 8500".

However, scanner was not detected. I was wondering if anybody had luck with scanning in Linux from that particular device.

Solution

You need a recent hplip driver to enable scanning and proper A4/Letter detection for any HP multifunction driver. They print with some driver sometimes, and scan with some scanjet driver at limited resolution, but hplip enables full proper functionality.

Comments

[Aspartame_Xu]

I have an HP L7680 and xsane (scanner app) works great with it. I use the hplip driver.

[ZaB]

hplip includes (compilable) sane backend and a cups printer driver...