Comment 4 for bug 958394

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If I had to guess, I would say there is a problem with the hplip scanner driver that sometime causes simple-scan to crash. Unfortunately problems with the scanner driver can easily take down the complete simple-scan program with the current architecture (instead if just failing to produce a picture). It might be that simple-scan abuses the interface / skips some mandatory initialization. Sadly at the moment there is no manpower to investigate this further, however.

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