MFP Printer for Ubuntu

[Andy Graybeal]

Preston thanks for your input, I've heard good things about Brother 
working well with linux.

brscan-skey sounds like great peice of software.

I should have mentioned that this is for a small office of about 20 
users, we would like a laser printer (because i'm used to them) or 
phaser printer, because I guess this is okay?  We would don't want ink. 
  We would prefer black-and-white because we hope that people won't use 
it for fun necessarily in the office.

Do you think the brscan-skey software will work with the other Brother 
MFP printers? ... i wonder.. I'm going to look into this.

I hope this is not too 'off-topic' for the list; this is my first thread 
here.

-Andy

Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Andy Graybeal
> <andy.graybeal at casanueva.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a multifunction printer that works in Ubuntu?... or
>> linux in general?
>>
>> Specifically I would like to be able to scan images over the network.
>>
>> Currently we have a Dell 2335DN; we can print from any linux client, but
>>  I can't figure out how to scan from it over the network using linux.
>> Windows scanning over the network works great.
>>
>> Faxing isn't necessary over the network, but maybe a useful option to
>> have for some reason or other.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
> 
> I have a Brother MFC-5440CN that I love.  I have it setup on my
> network, so my Linux and Windows machines can all print to it.  I can
> replace all of the ink cartdriges in it for about $12 from abcink.com
> Brother has on their site Linux drivers for both the scanner and the
> printer.  I actually have a home Linux server setup that runs the
> brscan-skey software.  What that does is make it where I can just go
> to my scanner, press the scan button, put the document on the glass or
> in the ADF, select my Linux server as the destination and it will
> scan.
> 
> It gives you 4 files types to choose from (image, email, ocr, and file
> I think), but basically each of these options maps to a script on the
> server.  You can modify the script as needed.  I have Image scan as a
> JPG and put it in one folder, file scans as PDF and another one of the
> options scans as TIFF.  It comes with default scripts and instructions
> to install it if you are not too familiar with it.  If you end up
> getting one of the Brother ones, post back to the list or email me and
> I will send you my scripts.
> 
> I think the Brother model I have may no longer be sold, but I would
> just look for the current generation (look for something with built in
> networking, an auto document feeder (ADF) that starts with MFC for
> around $100) and then check the Brother site to make sure they have
> the brscan-skey utility for it.  Even without the utility, it should
> work with sane and most of the other "standard" Linux scanning
> software.
> 
> Preston
>