On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
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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.
Jeff