Brother laser printer/scanner on Ethernet

[Brian]

On Wed 11 Nov 2020 at 17:31:23 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:

> My question:-
> The Brother model she is looking at is the DCP-L3550CDW. Unfortunately
> it is out of stock everywhere at the moment hopefully because everybody
> is home working. How should I expect the standard xsane, gscan2pdf etc,
> scanner software to be used with such a device? I'm looking at the
> Brother web site that says it has a driver installer that includes both
> the CUPS and scanner drivers. It's probably the same clever script that
> I found to get my laser working again with a new 64 bit server board.
> Will the scanner be accessed by telling sane to go to an IP address or
> will there be some other cleverness going on?

After nearly three years of Ubuntu providing driverless printing,
the driverless printing and scanning approach is still neglected.
It's almost as though it doesn't exist or modern developments in
the printing system are seen as a step too far.

https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting

Users of modern printers really do love their vendor drivers :).

-- 
Brian.