Re: brother printer/scanners

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
I got a Brother printer to work by installing both the debian packages
from the repos and the deb from Brother's website, but the scanner
still isn't being found.

Running Wheezy.

Would anyone care to tell me what steps they took to get scan
functionality on their Brother multifunction printers?

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Joel Rees

I'm imagining I'm a novelist:
http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html

Install xsane and you are done.

Just got some time to dig out my notes from installing my MFC-J430W back in November 2013, maybe it helps someone although is for Ubuntu-12.04:

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First configured the printer with static IP of 192.168.1.205

Printer install

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$ sudo dpkg -i mfcj430wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i mfcj430wcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.deb

Then add the printer from the printig menu of the System Settings tool as network printer. The MFC-J430W will be now listed under Brother printers. I set the printer as IPP.

Scanner install

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http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html

$ wget http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan4-0.4.1-3.amd64.deb&lang=English_lpr

$ wget http://www.brother.com/cgi-bin/agreement/agreement.cgi?dlfile=http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan-skey-0.2.4-0.amd64.deb&lang=English_lpr

$ sudo dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.1-3.amd64

$ sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=MFC-J430W model=Brother ip=192.168.1.205

# brsaneconfig4 -q | grep MFC-J430W

27 "MFC-J430W"

0 MFC-J430W "Brother" I:192.168.1.205

Then start xsane and start scanning

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