On Thu, 2024-03-21 at 18:18 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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.
This might be useful:
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#ippoverusb
It's for Debian but that doesn't seem to matter.
poc
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