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I own a HP Laserjet 2840 multifunction printer. It's a fabulous device, but on Windows 7 it can't network scan. HP doesn't seem to support it in anything greater than Vista, and they aren't forth coming with solutions.
I'm curious if anyone else has gotten work arounds to this problem.
One possible avenue for me is that I have an always-on Gentoo server that is configured to see the printer as a fax and printer using hplip. I have this shared via samba and I can print just fine through samba. Is there a similar way I can do network scanning? Anyone know of where I start looking for this?
1Could you make use of Virtual XP mode in Windows 7 instead of the separate Gentoo server? – Mike Fitzpatrick – 2010-05-05T07:19:58.957
So basically you want to know the IP address of your Laserjet? – John – 2010-06-16T18:52:06.290
@johnthexiii: No, I know the IP address.
In Windows 7, you can't use the 2840 for anything besides printing if it's networked. I'd like to rectify that. – Eddie Parker – 2010-06-27T05:47:08.177