[CentOS] HPLIP vs. CentOS

Kay Schenk
Thu, 03 May 2018 22:37:14 -0000

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>
wrote:

> Le 01/05/2018 ? 13:58, Nicolas Kovacs a ?crit :
> > The printer and the scanner worked perfectly for some time.
> >
> > Now all of a sudden scanning won't work anymore, and I have an
alert
> > that the HP plugin must be installed.
>
> After a couple of unnerving hours I finally found the cause of the
> malfunction.
>
> Our printer has been set as the default printer. Now I recently added a
> second printer for the teachers room, accessible via wifi only.
>
> As soon as this printer has been setup, Simple Scan was looking for this
> printer's plugin.
>
> So my mistake was assuming that defining a printer as a default printer
> also meant defining it as the default scanner. Apparently there is no
> default scanner, this has to be selected individually in the scanning
> applications.
>
> Anyway, problem solved. Phew.
>
> Niki
>

?Thanks for the update. hplip can indeed be a tricky at times.


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