HP scanjet doesn't work

[slamelov]

Hi

I have a HP 8200 Scanjet, but I can't use it. When I type sudo xsane, appears this message:

"error opening device 'xsane hp scanjet 8200 avision:libusb:005:006' Operation not supported"

If I type in console:

 sudo sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x131d, product=0x0158) at libusb:006:004
found USB scanner (vendor=0x067b, product=0x2303) at libusb:005:010
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [hp], product=0x0b01 [hp scanjet 8200]) at libusb:005:006
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [hp], product=0xb402 [photosmart 7700 series]) at libusb:005:005
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

If I type:

scanimage -L
device `avision:libusb:005:006' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 8200 flatbed scanner

I checked also hp-setup , but only dettects printer, not the scanner

I'm using Kubuntu 15.10 64

Any help?

Thanks

[oshunluvr]

"Operation not supported" sound suspiciously like a permission error. Try to open xsane using kdesudo and see if it lets you access the scanner. I'm not suggesting this is the solution, just a test...

[slamelov]

Thanks for the reply, but I have used "sudo xsane", as you can see in the post. It doesn't work

[claydoh]

Oshun is right - running a gui program with sudo in the commandline can have bad consequences. You should not need admin privileges to run a scanner.

Doing a quick googs on it, there does seem to be plenty of people having trouble with this scanner - which uses an avision chip, and not an hp one