<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:18 AM Little Girl <<a href="mailto:littlergirl@gmail.com" target="_blank">littlergirl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Meanwhile, you might find one or two useful tips in this thread:<br>
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It's not about a Brother machine, but could still send you in the<br>
right direction.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I don't know why I never think of this, but I have commented extensively on the bug below, which is directly relevant to the original poster's question:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a Brother DCP 7020 (which happens to use the same driver as the OP's scanner) and every time I upgrade Ubuntu I have to figure out what has changed THIS time, so I keep the bug updated. That way all I have to do is open the bug when I need to install it again. Here's my update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic," which I resolved by using the SANE diagnostics to see where SANE is looking for the drivers. (It has changed several times over the years.)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856/comments/32" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/701856/comments/32</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>As you might have guessed, I haven't yet upgraded that machine to Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal," so I don't know if the procedure has changed again. Sometime very recently someone at Brother has updated their website with FAQs that uses a procedure similar to my procedure, so all I have to say is "look for the information on the Brother website." But it's ugly -- they COULD fix the drivers to install the drivers in the correct directories in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>I have written Brother several times since I bought the printer (which must be ten or more years ago at this point) begging them to please update the drivers to work properly with the latest Ubuntu releases. They have responded politely, but noncommittally. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope someday Brother might release the SANE drivers as open source to the SANE people so maybe someday we won't have to fiddle with these things any more. </div></div></div></div></div>