Friday, 4 February 2022

Using a Brother Networked Printer/Scanner with Linux

 Notes for future reference:

Printing just worked using the 'Printing' GUI.

Scanning Didn't.....the SimpleScan programme did not detect the scanner.

The trick is to install a driver that pretends that the networked scanner is connected locally using the SANE interface, brsaneconfig4

Doing:

brsaneconfig4 -q lists the scanners that are available.

brsaneconfig4 -a name=SCANNER model=MFC-L3750CDW ip=192.168.0.19

adds the scanner, and it now works nicely with simplescan.