Brother printer - scanner

[Richard Frans]

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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