HP OfficeJet 4215 Scanner question

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Fri Mar 31 01:43:47 UTC 2006


On Friday 31 March 2006 02:45, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> [[ please CC me on any reply, I'm not on this list ]]
>
> Greetings,
>
> I was wondering if anybody had any luck getting an HP OfficeJet 4125
> working on FreeBSD.  I plugged it into my 6.1-beta4 system, and it was
> recognized as a printer.  However, my attempts to get sane to access
> the scanner portion have have failed.  What am I doing worng?
>
> It looks like I might need the hpijs for printing, but I need hplip
> for scanning.  The hpijs appears to be a FreeSBD port, but I don't see
> a hplip port.  Is there one?  Is this what I need?  Is there something
> else that would work?
>
> Warner
>
> P.S.  Keywords for searches:
>
> Office Jet OfficeJet Series 4200 xsane

You tried the hpoj port? It uses the ptal low level driver and cups for 
printing, others for scanning or faxing or photo camera flash card.


Dan




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