Using a Hewlett-Packard scanjet 3500c scanner

This article talk about how to install and configure the needed software on Debian GNU/Linux for the Hewlett-Packard Scanjet 3500c.

Introduction

For long time i didn't get this Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3500c working on my Debian GNU/Linux box. Linux and Sane recognised the hardware but i could get any scan without a heavy noise and the final result was just a plain black image.

Today, i tested again this stuff and got it directly working.

Hardware info

lsusb give as output:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:2205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3500c

Installing the needed software

There are different tools and all using sane:

• sane - scanner graphical frontends
• eikazo - graphical frontend for SANE designed for mass-scanning
• kooka - scanner program for KDE
• quiteinsane - A Qt based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
• xsane - featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)

Take your choice, install and test your tools. My preferred is xsane, so i install this:

aptitude install xsane

Using xsane

You can check if the scanner is been recognized by sane:

scanimage -L

This output:

device `hp3500:libusb:003:003' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3500 scanner
device `hp_rts88xx:libusb:003:003' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3500C flatbed scanner

When invoking xsane (and whatever other graphical scan tool) you need to select which scanner driver you want to use. If i select the second as showed by scanimage -L, the scanner then do some very insane noise and i don't get the expected result. Selecting the first driver does the job as expected. The only glitch i discovered till now is that i'm unable to select to scan in black and white and this with whatever program.

We now need to grant scan rights to the users who will be able to use the scanner. Add your user(s) to the scanner group:

adduser dvanmosselbeen scanner

Once your user added to the scanner group, you need to logout and login back again, otherwise your user id don't get the new rights.

If you don't add your user id to the group of scanner, you will get an error such as Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument.

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