[NCLUG] HP ScanJet 6200C Victory

[Rich Young]

Hey, all, this was going to be a question, but I solved the problem without 
y'all for once. So I am posting what I did right, since the nclug archives 
get spidered, in hopes that the steps I followed will help somebody else some 
day.

Initially, XSane was reporting that no devices were found.  I was following 
the advice in David Nelson's scanner-hp-sane.txt that comes with the SANE HP 
packages, which indicated a couple things that turned out to be substantially 
different on my system:
1) David indicated that $INSTALL_DIR may be /usr, /usr/local, /opt or 
somewhere else.  On my KRUD/Red Hat 7.2 system, the installation directory 
was split between /usr/lib/sane/ and /etc/sane.d/

2) David also instructs the user to put the following line into 
$INSTALL_DIR/etc/sane.d/hp.conf -- a typo, I think, as it was 
/etc/sane.d/hp.conf on my system -- anyway, the line:
/dev/usbscanner
When I did this, XSane reported that it found no devices.  I went wading into 
/dev, and tried 
/dev/usb/scanner0
And it worked!

Now, when I scanned in color, I got color inversion, a split of the image, 
and I/O error messages from the scanner (an HP ScanJet 6200C, for the 
record).  Recognizeable, but still not right.  In the end, XSane's View:Show 
Advanced Options dialog allowed me to set the Color Matrix setting to 
"Pass-through", which got me error-free, accurate scans.  Problem solved.  

Now on to the digital camera....

--Rich