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Got ubuntu 20.04

Got HP Deskjet 2540

Got HP Officejet 3830

Connected via USB

All worked fine in Ubuntu 19.10

In Ubuntu 20.04 simple scan gives error "Failed to scan Unable to connect to scanner. " Also error code 5012

Doesn't work with HPLIP, doesn't work with preinstalled ubuntu drivers.

Help please ?

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  • I have posted an answer to a similar question here. It deals with a different device which is connected through the network, not with a USB cable, however, I think it can possibly still be useful to someone ending up here.
    – Paloha
    Jul 29, 2020 at 11:59
  • Thank you, I will check it out.
    – Jimmy Widdle
    Aug 10, 2020 at 21:57
  • hmm, none of that works for me. I prefer USB anyway as it's simpler. Sometimes ubuntu mess things up. I still love it though.
    – Jimmy Widdle
    Aug 13, 2020 at 12:03

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I have found a workaround for this problem that has really annoyed me for three months now on my HP Envy 4500 with embedded scanner connected via USB (printing was affected too).
Several bug reports have linked this problem to a conflict between hplip (HP linux drivers) and ippusbxd (Daemon for IPP USB printer support)

I tried uninstaling hplip and ippusbxd separately to see what was best, but the only working solution was really to uninstall ippusbxd as it solved all my problems of multiple printers being displayed and reappearing even if i deleted them.

> sudo apt purge ippusbxd

Note : I had to disconnect my printer from the USB port and to reinstall it after having purged ippusbxd and every printer definition that was left.

And so the scanning problem is solved too even if i still got the same annoying modal error pop up after each single page scan (but it's working)..

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  • Thanks for that answer Zipang purging ippusbxd has done the trick for my HP 2634 in 20:04 :ThumbsUP: You win the internet for the month
    – Paul
    Sep 16, 2020 at 15:20
  • Also Worked in Lubuntu 20.04 as well.
    – Dimitrios Desyllas
    Nov 22, 2020 at 17:12
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    thanks! that works! and worth is to mention that the best is to download the newest drivers from hp directly, better don't relay on default ubuntu repo because there are older hplip
    – Nicramus
    Jan 26, 2021 at 17:26
  • I was struggling for hours with my HP Neverstop Laser MFP 1200n before I found this gold answer!
    – ezze
    Dec 22, 2021 at 21:53
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I had a problem with a Brother MFC-250C on Ubuntu 20.4. Printing worked, but no scanner found. Multifunction device connected via USB. Solved it by installing libusb-0.1-4. Maybe this will help in your case too.

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I had this problem took out USB and set up WiFi and it now scans and prints perfectly , HP envy 5010 and use Ubuntu 20.04

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  • Ah, thanks Neil,, maybe I should try that.
    – Jimmy Widdle
    Jan 10, 2021 at 17:14
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I had similar problems with HP Envy Inspire 7200e all-in-one. My system is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with current updates.

Having set up Wifi the printer side worked fine and ran the usual tests, but SimpleScanner kept saying there were no scanners available.

This how I finally got it to work:

First I tried re-installing the current (3.22.2) hplip. Forget it. HPlip claims that the 7200e is supported from 3.21.10, but it was looking for files like python-pyqt5 which it couldn't find because it isn't part of the standard downloads under 20.04: Synaptic's Package Manager supplies python3-pyqt5. As a result it wouldn't install. Deleted HPlip.

I also purged ippusbxd, setting the 7200 up via USB as HP suggested didn't work.

Instead, following advice at https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2452452.html I ran a barrage of tests, which helped some but didn't get things working. I would recommend that you read that through (it's a bit confusing in parts) because there are some good hints.

In the end I re-installed sane and added sane-airscan and replaced ippusbxd with ipp-usb (from the snap store) as the link recommends, BUT I had to purge Simple scanner and re-install it (as Document Scanner) from snapd.

Once re-installed the system found the scanner and it both scans and prints as you would expect it to.

Hope this helps!

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