On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com 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