HP Photosmart b109a-m: Scanner not recognised in Ubuntu 22.04

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maasnet@Intel:~$ inxi -Fx
System:
  Host: Intel Kernel: 5.15.0-30-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.2.0 Desktop: GNOME 42.0 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X58-USB3 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X58-USB3 v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: Award v: F3 date: 04/11/2011
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M705 charge: 60%
    status: Discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7 950 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Nehalem rev: 5 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1619 min/max: 1596/3060 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1619
    2: 1619 3: 1619 4: 1619 5: 1619 6: 1619 7: 1619 8: 1619 bogomips: 49659
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 520] driver: nouveau v: kernel
    bus-ID: 02:00.0
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: nouveau resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NVD9 v: 4.3 Mesa 22.0.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 02:00.1
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-30-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: ee00 bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:6f:65:ce:4e:39
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
    v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0
  IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: a0:f3:c1:15:15:86
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 17.85 GiB (0.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EALX-009BA0
    size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EALX-009BA0
    size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 18.97 GiB used: 10.96 GiB (57.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
  ID-2: /home size: 67.84 GiB used: 6.89 GiB (10.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda6
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 920.8 MiB used: 19.2 MiB (2.1%)
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 42.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 305 Uptime: 49m Memory: 5.79 GiB used: 3.42 GiB (59.0%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: 2124 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

HP check log:
hp-check[4961]: info: :
hp-check[4961]: info: :[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.12)[0m
hp-check[4961]: info: :[01mDependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1[0m
hp-check[4961]: info: :
hp-check[4961]: info: :Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
hp-check[4961]: info: :This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
hp-check[4961]: info: :This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
hp-check[4961]: info: :under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
hp-check[4961]: info: :
hp-check[4961]: info: :[01mNote: hp-check can be run in three modes:[0m
hp-check[4961]: info: :1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the
hp-check[4961]: info: :HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies
hp-check[4961]: info: :are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
hp-check[4961]: info: :2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
hp-check[4961]: info: :supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
hp-check[4961]: info: :has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
hp-check[4961]: info: :3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
hp-check[4961]: info: :will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).
hp-check[4961]: info: :
hp-check[4961]: info: :Check types:
hp-check[4961]: info: :a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies
hp-check[4961]: info: :b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time)
hp-check[4961]: info: :c. COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies
hp-check[4961]: info: :d. [All are run-time checks]
hp-check[4961]: info: :PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION
hp-check[4961]: info: :
hp-check[4961]: info: :Status Types:
hp-check[4961]: info: : OK
hp-check[4961]: info: : MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in
hp-check[4961]: info: : INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version
hp-check[4961]: info: :