brent Its always that one question you ask or that one thing that a person says that
makes the light bulb go on for someone.

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    Note that if your HP device requires the proprietary plugin, it needs to be reinstalled every time HPLIP version number changes.

      alfisya

      As requested, I've report my last observations into the GitHub issue.

      Concerning the ping, how do I proceed please?

      • where can I find the ip address of my scanner printer? (terminal command?)

      • if you need to use a specific syntax for the terminal ping command to precise the result, please let me know;

      • should I simply copy the result as a comment into the Github issue, indicating that it concerns TraceyC, otherwise could you please tell me how to proceed?

      Thank you in advance for your indulgence, because I do not yet master certain computer knowledge.

          penny-farthing I think you misunderstood me. I only ask that you mention/ping TraceyC (She is the maintainer of hplip) in github issue (like you mention my username on github). It is not related to networking at all. 😅

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              Since nearly 4 years I work with Solus on my computer, I've just installed the packages hplip and hplip-drivers and I use simple-scan for scanning my documents without any problems until recently, as explained in this post.

                  alfisya

                  Sorry for the confusion, these are just some of the surprises a numeric translator can throw at you. 😄

                  Anyway, I mentioned this info into the GitHub issue.

                    penny-farthing Since nearly 4 years I work with Solus on my computer, I've just installed the packages hplip and hplip-drivers and I use simple-scan for scanning my documents without any problems until recently, as explained in this post.

                    this may even be beyond hp and something happened recently that had a big big ripple effect re: the law of unintended consequences when it came to scanners & printers lately. it's too many stories/threads like this on a short timeline. far more than the ordinary and certainly not coincidence.

                    it's not conspiratorial, it's a bad marriage of a handful of elements whose effects/origins haven't been tracked down yet because only a minority of general print & scan users (all hp, brother, epson in my observation) are effected.

                    I have fought these wars in linux (printer & scanner) for years until I caught a break: solus packaged the printer drivers and flatpak packaged the scanner drivers. but no one's hardware lasts forever so I keep a close eye on the abundance of these threads re: "It always worked this way, now it doesn't" is another wrinkle in these threads for sure.
                    spitballing and speculating, of course.

                        brent

                        I've read your comment and I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. My approach in this post was simply to find out if the problem I was experiencing on my HP printer/scanner was an isolated case or if it was a more general problem. This problem has now been brought up through an issue on GitHub and the developer concerned is working on it.

                        Your experience in the IT field allows you to have a relevant look at all kinds of situation encountered (and in particular on the one I mentioned in this post) and it's for me always interesting to read.

                            penny-farthing there's no misunderstanding--all good. I didn't see it as an isolated case but more of a trend; and all the words were my own observation on your issue.
                            glad you filed a bug. glad you can scan with gscan even though its not the quality you want.
                            🙂: my 'experience in the IT field' is none, just the school of hard knocks when one commits to linux life as a layman and insists on peripheral devices🙂
                            edit/sp

                              brent Its everybody chippin in and not losing composure because something isnt right
                              and sticks with it which in turn improves Solus.
                              And our wonderful software Devs
                              I got it on good authority I make these threads to big...lol

                                  Axios I got it on good authority I make these threads to big...lol

                                  🙂 I've been told the same thing!

                                  it's coming from a good place though. people need their stuff to work and if you can point 'em in the right direction that's the best. linux is far from windows with some stuff but that's its charm

                                    alfisya

                                    This is good news. 😊
                                    So I'm waiting for this patch to be upgraded to stable to confirm that the problem is now resolved and close this post.
                                    PS. You will have to be a little patient, @EbonJaeger in his last post not predicting new Solus updates before week 13.

                                    In the meantime, thanks to all those who helped achieve this fine result, and in particular to @TraceyC and @alfisya . 👏