Brother has been pretty consistent with their Linux support. They have a few oddballs they don't have drivers for (label printers mainly) but their laser printers and MFC systems seem to be well supported. <br><br>XSane is amazing! Once I removed the HPLIP stuff, I was able to use my HP OfficeJet 4130 (networked MFC with a keyboard and scan to PDF) directly. Then the magenta cartridge <u>sprung a leak </u>(brand new, HP brand, not a refill) and ruined the entire print engine. Still working on a replacement pump.<br>
<br>Scan to emailed PDF is wonderful!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Neal Rhodes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com" target="_blank">neal@mnopltd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I had a weird new experience on Friday with linux.<br>
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Our Brother MFC-440CN printer/scanner/copier had been refusing to talk to the XP workstation that it's been connected to for about 10 years. No amount of fiddling was cajoling it into communicating. We needed so scan something for our business license. <br>
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In desperation, I thought I'd just see if I could do something with our Centos server to diagnose if the problem was the Scanner or the workstation. I could ping the scanner. <br>
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To my amazement, I just googled "brother linux scanner" and found Brother's website with Linux drivers, found the driver for the Redhat/Centos/Fedora/64 bit flavor, found coherent instructions, installed the driver, then used the Add/Remove software to install anything that said "scanner", and voila, Xsane came up, found the scanner, and produced a multipage PDF. All within about 20 minutes. And the directions didn't contradict itself, and it ...just worked. <br>
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I don't know about anyone else's experience with Linux desktop functionality and vendor specific hardware, but I'm somewhat in shock it was that simple. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Neal
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