[ale] Accessing Brother scanner from Linux

[Bob Toxen]

Yeah, printing was quick and easy.  Scanning not so much.

Bob

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 06:10:34PM -0400, jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com wrote:
> I have a Brother MFC-9645DW which, like yours, can be connected via USB and WiFi.  I have never tried connecting it with USB, but it works like a champ with WiFi.  I can print single-sided, double-sided, etc.  I can also scan using the scanner over WiFi with single page or the bulk scanner using the "Simple Scan" application.
> 
> I am using Mint 19.3 64-bit Intel with Cinnamon
> 
> I did not install any additional software from Brother or anything else, just the printer and scanner software that came with the system.
> 
> The printer shows up in the printer administration software.  I will attach a couple of screen shots showing the printer.
> 
> md
> 
> 
> > On 06/17/2022 4:01 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother printer/scanner/Fax device to work with one of my
> > older Linux systems.
> > 
> > Brother model MFC-7360N.  (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has USB jack
> > 
> > Linux systems (anyone will do):
> > 
> > CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
> > 
> > Slackware 14.2
> > 
> > Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no shoes, to be fixed real soon now!)
> > 
> > Bob Toxen
> > transam at VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)
> > bob at VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)
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