[LUG] HP Officejet 4655 AIO Printer and HPLIP : Scanner function not recognised by SANE

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'm pretty sure this is the HPLIP version as I have read in a forum that 
the latest HPLIP won't work with the 4655 while previous versions do. I 
tried uninstalling it and installing the earlier one but  that did not 
work. I assume when I uninstalled one version something remained intact. 
The scanner /does/ work with SANE if I feed it the correct url via the 
CLI. However that's a pain in the proverbial as I have to run the 
terminal, remember the command from the last time it was used months 
ago, run SANE, scan the image, save it in SANE, load up GIMP and /then/ 
edit the image. It's much easier to load GIMP, click File 
->Create->XSane and have the device dialog there as HPLIP is supposed 
to, and as it used to before I had to do a reinstall of the whole lot.

Is there a way to;

a) Remove every trace of HPLIP

or

b) Force SANE to actually remember the scanner url as it is supposed to. 
Is it held in a config file I can edit manually?

Kind regards,

Julian

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