<div dir="ltr">I have a Brother DCP-7020, and it has worked well (printing and scanning) for years now. The printer works without any Brother drivers (supported directly by CUPS) but my scanner requires the Brother brscan2 software. Unfortunately the software wasn't packaged up to Debian / Ubuntu standards, so I had to ignore a warning and edit a file or two to get it working properly. The exact edits are spelled out on the Brother web site, but I had to click a few links before I found them. I also have to go through the installation process every time I upgrade Ubuntu.<div>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Barry Premeaux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bpremeaux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bpremeaux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you. Appreciate the input. I was opting to go with Brother because of their Linux support. The 875 also offers up wireless connectivity which is going to make it a whole lot easier to print from the laptop or my phone. That will be a really nice change. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Juan R. de Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com" target="_blank">juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:29:11 -0700, Barry Premeaux wrote:<br>
<br>
> I am planning on replacing my old Epson printer with a Brother<br>
> MFC-J875DW. Has anyone had any problems with their cups/brscan drivers?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm using Brother MFC-7460DN and did not have any troubles with the<br>
Brother drivers in Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, Debian Squeeze and Weezy, Kubuntu<br>
12.04, Fedora 18, OpenSUSE 12.2 and 12.3, and some other distros I've<br>
tried.<br>
<br>
There are a couple of things I've never bothered to try, and thus would<br>
not know if they work. I never sent a fax directly from PC. And I do not<br>
care even to try, since for me it's much easier to print a document out<br>
and then to fax from MFC. I've also never tried to set up scanning from<br>
MFC to PC, since I find it easier to scan from PC.<br>
<br>
Otherwise the drivers were always easy to install and supported the<br>
device in all its capacities wonderfully.<br>
<br>
Brother, however, does not provide ppd file for my model. To have a<br>
printer for which such a file is provided would be preferable.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
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