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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Laughs in Archlinux and Brother printer

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Idk how is it with brother printers, but brother scanners are an absolute PITA to make work on Arch

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Over the network can be hit or miss but the usb cable and the drivers from the AUR have yet to fail me

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have a ds640 (an usb scanner), and I've spent maybe 2 hours installing&reinstalling&removing drivers from the aur. Nothing worked. Installed Fedora just to see if things worked over there (as fedora is officially supported by brother) and things worked perfectly. Then i booted on my arch install arch once again, AND EVERYTHING WORKED. Alleluia. But I still don't know why, as I didn't touch nothing between last time i tried and now. Idk.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't even get this Brother to scan to a flash drive in its own USB port. It acts like it's successful; it scans and no errors show up... but the files just aren't there. Tried multiple USB drives and made sure they were formatted to FAT32 in a sector size that Brother recommended in the manual.

    Printing to it from Debian was even easier than expected, though. Plug it in, it shows up as a networked printer, and you print to it.

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