HP Officejet 7210 scanning using Debian, ethernet over USB
This note is to outline the steps we took to run our HP Officejet 7210 All-In-One scanner from a Debian 9 box using ethernet-over-USB. So it's a sort of case-study. A caution here is that the steps we took do not follow any best practices. They just follow our interpretation of what the internet says. However, we have tried to present our rationale for each step. We're posting them because we couldn't find any source for doing what we wanted to do. The hope is that somebody in a similar situation may get some ideas or commands here. Motivation We had the Officejet, aka "scanner", for many years and ran it from an old Mac. It was connected over USB. We used some Hewlett Packard software to perform scanning. Over time, there was some bit rot and the ease of scanning gradually degraded. The final problem came when the scanner started complaining about an ink cartridge. In prior times we could still scan despite printing-related complaint...