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HP Printer Hack

HP Printer (HP Color LaserJet MFP M281fdw) did not work when using the Scan to email feature, no matter the settings.

I was able to go around this issue with the following strategy:

1. I have used the Little 10 EURO OrangePi Linux Server for getting a SAMBA Network-drive.
2. Scan to network-drive from printer
3. Linux Server check for new file in Network-drive and send to email using the FREE smtp gmail server.

Look into the HP-Printer-Hack folder for the Sever bash code

Install required scripts

copy sendScanned.sh file to the Linux Serverroot directory

edit the file and fill with your info the following 2 lines of the script

LinuxUserName="your-linux-username" #Linux Server user name whom network folder belongs to
sendTo="[email protected]" #The email address to whom the email with PDF attached is going to be sent to

make the script executable by using the following command-line:

chmod +x /root/sendScanned.sh

To the server /etc/rc.local file, add the following line

nohup /root/sendScanned.sh &

make sure the server has the following packages installed:

apt install ssmtp

apt install mailutils

Set your gmail account to be used by script for sending emails

from your gmail --> Select "Manage your Google Account" --> Security --> turn ON 2 steps verification --> generate password for APP email (take note the generated password)

Configure the SSMTP to use smtp.gmail.com server

from the Linux Server edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf by adding the following lines

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
AuthUser=your-gmail-address(e.g. [email protected])
AuthPass=the-gmail-generated-APP-password
UseTLS=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES

Configure Network-drive

On the Linux Server install SAMBA

apt install samba

At the end of /etc/samba/smb.conf append the following lines

[scannerDrive]
path = /path/to/scannerDrive (e.g. /home/your-linux-username/scannerDrive)
valid users = your-linux-username (e.g. pincopallo)
read only = no

set samba password for linux-user your-linux-username (samba password and linux user password are not the same)

smbpasswd -a your-linux-username

Set HP printer Scan to network-drive

1. From WEB browser enter HP Printer IP Address into the address bar
2. Select Scan Tab
3. Configure a new network-folder 3.1. Display name: scannerDrive@LinuxServerIPaddress (e.g. [email protected]) 3.2 Network path: \\LinuxServerIPaddress\scannerDrive (e.g. \192.168.1.123\scannerDrive ) 3.3 Username: your-linux-username (e.g. pincopallo) 3.4. Password: your-samba-password

you can save and test