On Thu, 2024-03-21 at 18:18 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM Sam Varshavchik
<mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I keep reading good things said about Brother scanners/all-in-ones.
> Reading
> into details, it's always one of two things. It also involves a
> driver
> download, like hplip's modus operandi, and it's not really an out
> of the box
> solution. Alternatively, the alleged printer model is nowhere to be
> found in
> xsane's hardware database. So, it's basically pot luck: buy it, and
> hope
> that it works.
One comment about Brother... My mother uses Linux Mint and has a
Brother MFC-J870DW All-in-One over USB. My complaint about the
MFC-J870DW is, it only supplies a 32-bit driver. So we have to run
the
i386 multiarch gear on her 64-bit machine.
The MFC-J870DW is the only thing stopping me from:
sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg --get-selections | grep ":i386" | awk
'{print $1}')
sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386
In the past we tried to set up the MFC-J870DW without the Brother
driver. It never worked that way, so we had to install the driver. I
suspect the problems had to do with the All-in-One connected directly
to the machine via USB.
This might be useful:
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#ippoverusb
It's for Debian but that doesn't seem to matter.
poc