Brother scanner support for DCP and MFC models

This document explains how to configure some Brother multifunction printers to correctly use the scanner functionality.

Contents 1 Supported Devices 1.1 brscan 1.2 brscan2 1.3 brscan3 2 Installing the package 3 Uninstalling the drivers 4 Status 5 Links

Supported Devices

There are currently 3 different driver packages for Brother products.

brscan

The brscan package supports the following devices:

brscan2

The brscan2 package supports the following devices:

brscan3

The brscan3 package supports the following devices:

Installing the package

Install the necessary package(s) by typing:

Pardus 2008

sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2008/brscan-0.2.4-1.pisi
sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2008/brscan2-0.2.5-2.pisi
sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2008/brscan3-0.2.8-2.pisi

Pardus 2009

sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2009/brscan-0.2.4-1.pisi
sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2009/brscan2-0.2.5-2.pisi
sudo pisi it http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~ozan/dist/binaries/2009/brscan3-0.2.8-2.pisi

The related sane backend is automatically installed and added to the sane backends list.

Uninstalling the drivers

Remove the installed package(s) using console:

sudo pisi rm brscan
sudo pisi rm brscan2
sudo pisi rm brscan3

Status

Andreas Jürgens which requested this driver, reported [2] that the scanner and the printer works well under Pardus 2008.

Links

[0]: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_install.html

[1]: http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?24,3943

[2] : http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=7122