HP Laserjet M1212nf MFP also affected

[SmilingInSeattle]

Scanimage -L returns:

device `hpaio:/net/HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP?zc=NPI6A5943' is a Hewlett-Packard HP_LaserJet_Professional_M1212nf_MFP all-in-one
  as it always has when it was working.

Had the same problem in the beginning with Ubuntu 17.04, but then somewhere along the correction stream it got magically "fixed" and started working with simple-scan as well as xsane.

Using a dual boot to the current version allowed by the ARCH developers, the scanner has, and still does, work. I do a pacman -Syu on ARCH at least once a week, so I can attest to the "current" version of ARCH.

[SmilingInSeattle (dixonhoyle)]

Correction: ...I had the same problem with Ubuntu 17.10...

[SmilingInSeattle (dixonhoyle)]

This should probably be added to Bug# 1728012 ("Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change")Many scanners Many scanners

[Wladimir Mutel (mwg)]

I installed Cosmic HPLIP 3.18.7 packages, including libsane-hpaio, and this solved the problem I had with using M1212nf on Ubuntu Bionic

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Issue about to be fixed in 18.04.