HP Laserjet M1212nf MFP also affected

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.