Brother printer - scanner
Richard Frans
rfrans at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 15:21:21 UTC 2010
Thanks everybody, looks like it works and I just have to get used to the
xsane program. I went to the Brother download site and followed the
instructions. There is a download for my model there.
William Frick wrote:
> I have a Wireless HP4599 All in One working completely with 9.10. Scan,
> Print and card slot ! The HPLIB package is pretty fool proof set up. It
> spooks some visitors when it spits out a page while on the far side of
> the room !
>
>
> Bill
>
>
> --- On *Sun, 2/28/10, Che Guebeara /<cheguebeara at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Che Guebeara <cheguebeara at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Brother printer - scanner
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 2:33 PM
>
> I have my Brother AIO (the dreaded MFC420CN no less!) working fine -
> printing, card reader and scanning (through GIMP).
>
> Best instructions I have found are on the Brother Linux Support
> pages... take special note of the section on how to setup your
> Ubuntu machine BEFORE you start installing the printer, scanner and
> scan key drivers. Scan key is the 'key' app here as it allows GIMP
> to access the scanner directly.
>
> In 9.10 for whatever reason there is a bugaboo with Xsane wanting to
> run as sudo only. In user mode you will get a consistent 'no device
> found' error. To test your install I use a terminal with 'sudo
> xsane' as the command. The only other oddity I get is on occasion
> the card reader won't see my XD card, but a simple restart of the
> AIO usually fixes that in a jiffy...
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 06:54 -0500, raymond house wrote:
>> Well Richard, you will need help from someone that knows more
>> about this then me. I'm just a Linux user. Good luck, Ray
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Richard Frans <rfrans at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rfrans at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I just noticed the Xsane scanner under applications, but even
>> with the
>> printer/scanner on Xsane does not find any scanner. I run
>> Karmic Koala
>> also. My printer is a Brother DCP195c.
>>
>>
>> raymond house wrote:
>> > I use an HP C4400 all in one and applications,
>> graphics,Xsane image
>> > scanner works fine with this printer. I'm running Karmic
>> Koala. Ray
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Richard Frans
>> <rfrans at gmail.com <mailto:rfrans at gmail.com>
>>
>> > <mailto:rfrans at gmail.com <mailto:rfrans at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Now that I have the printer working nicely, I'd like to
>> know if anyone
>> > has gotten the scanner going on any all in one unit
>> going or for that
>> > matter scan to email? Thanks, Richard Frans
>> >
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