sacanner for mfc-240c brother

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On 09/29/2008 07:28 PM, Richard Potter wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:48:24 +0000, Alfredo Lopez <liclopez at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have a printer MFC-240C, now  I need use the scanner I came to the
>> Brother Linux page but I don't know if the Ubuntu 8.4 work in 32 or 64
>> bits and with XSANE how is the procedure with de files brscan and scann
>> key tool and how I is the installation protocol
> 
> Brother is high on my list for their efforts with linux drivers (Lexmark
> also). Brother has a
> linux group in their Japan office.
> 
> Anyways, to answer your question, brscan is the scanner driver, the
> scan-key tool is for scanning to
> your pc from the scanner control panel. Forget about that, and just install
> the correct scanner driver,
> which is brscan2 for the MFC-240C as per this URL:
> 
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_scn.html
> 
> All the information is there, but you do have to know if you are running 32
> or 64bit, and how your MFC-240C
> is connected, USB or network.
> 
> There is also Brother print driver packaging in the Ubuntu multiverse
> repositories. The MFC-240C is supported 
> for Printing drivers. Here is the URL for that Wiki:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging
> 
> This should do it for your Printer driver:
> 
> sudo apt-get install brother-cups-wrapper-bh7
> 
> 
> Cheers!

One added suggestion: when I installed on my son's system last December
(Feisty) I had to pay particular attention to the FAQ info in order to
get the scanner working properly. He had moved from Florida &
experienced a lightning strike which blew out the USB; so I connected
via the ethernet port & once I did that it & set everything up per
Brother's FAQ's it worked like a champ:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html
  http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/faq_scn.html
  http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/faq_prn.html
  http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/faq_pcf.html

It's the only Brother MFC that I've installed, and I must say that I am
_very_ impressed with Brother's support via their website and
responsiveness to issues. Next time I'm in the market for a
printer/scanner/multifuntion unit Brother will be at the top of my list.