Comment 7 for bug 107064

Updating HPLIP to the newest version (it was 2.7.7 I think), using their installer-script for Ubuntu, causes sane to finally recognize the scanner.

However, the quality of the scans is horrible (it seems that there is something wrong with the way either the scanner internally or SANE handles the image) - but this is probably not something that belongs to this bug report here. : )