Comment 4 for bug 1760593

The only thing needed for the scanning function to work from the desktop is to get its device URI. This is done by libsane-hpaio and its dependencies. The URI is formed from what is obtained from the dns-sd broadcasts of the OfficeJet Pro 6970 and an entry for it in /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat. /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip contains "hpaio" and running something like xsane should just work.

I would check that these conditions are met by the laptop. sds-sd broadcasts can be examined with avahi-browse.

Not too important, but note that permissions are not needed for network discovery, only for USB.

Cheers,

Brian.