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
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