On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue