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Brother scanner not found in xsane,

I have reinstalled Kubunutu 18.10 the previous week. After the reinstallation I cannot make my scanner work. I have a Brother DCP-9010CN scanner/printer on a network location. I installed the driver and the printer works out of the box. The scanner…
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Brother MFCL2700DW duplex issues

I have installed linux drivers for the network printer (am using Ubuntu 17.10). That translates to following steps: wget http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006893/linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1.gz gunzip…
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Missing a driver for a SMB-accessed Brother printer

I use Lubuntu 17.10. I'm not quite sure which spooling mechanism my own system uses (I think it's CUPS). Now, I want to connect to a printer attached to another machine on a LAN; it's a Windows machine which exposes the printer via SMB. I do "see"…
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Brother DCP-110c integrated scanner not working in Mint (18.1 x64)

I have successfully installed the printer drivers as indicated here, which should include the scanner drivers. Indeed, brscan2 and brscan-key are installed; I have also installed brother-udev-rule-type1; sane, sane-utils and xsane are installed…
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Trouble printing to a Brother HL3170CDW printer on Linux

As the title says, I can't print to my Brother HL3170CDW printer. I'm on Artix Linux (runit version) and have the drivers installed from the AUR. system-config-printer detects the printer, and I'm able to add it in that frontend. However, when I try…
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Individual paper size on Brother QL-800 with continuous tape

I just bought a Brother QL-800 label printer with a 62mm wide continuous tape roll installed. Trying to make use of the continuous tape, I wanted to add an individual paper size (a custom length, in that case). Alas, all paper lengths fail except…
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Brother MFC-L2710DW mysteriously stopped printing

I'm trying to use Brother MFC-L2710DW multifunction printer/scanner with my Devuan ASCII machine (which is just like Debian Stretch but without systemd). At first, this seemed to work: I printed a couple of test pages, I scanned, life was good.…
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Duplex printing on Kubuntu by default

When I was using Ubuntu 16.04, duplex printing worked like a charm with my Brother DCP-J4120DW. However, I switched to Kubuntu 18.04. This makes Okular the default document viewer and also my document viewer of choice. On Ubuntu, I mainly used…
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How do I get Brother printer drivers to work on Fedora?

I have two Brother printers : a QL-1050 label printer (USB-plugged) and an MFC-9330CDW (wifi). Both work fine with an Ubuntu laptop, but I struggle to get them to print under Fedora 28 (actually had the same issue with F23 but never managed to fix…
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How to print on endless paper on a CUPS printer using lp/lpr?

The Situation I'm trying to print on a Brother QL-570 I set up on a Raspberry Pi using CUPS. The printer is working well using lp -d Brother_QL-570 test.pdf. However, when I insert an endless label (a 30m long, 62mm wide label) I want it to print…
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Brother MFC-2700DW scan from printer results in "Check Connection"

I have a Brother MFC-2700DW printer connected to my Linux Mint 20 machine over WiFi. Printing and scanning from the computer work fine after following the instructions on Brother's website. However, trying to scan from the printer yields a "Check…
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How do i connect my Brother printer in Linux Mint

I cant get my Brother QL-1110NWB to work, Ive installed zorin os, and now Mint and i get the same problem ive also installed on another laptop and same problem, I'm able to install the printer and the printer is recognized with…
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Printer won't connect via DNS-SD, "unreachable"

I am trying to install a networked printer (Brother HL-L2390DW). The Add Printer dialog finds it without issue, but no means of installing it allows it to work. I've tried the Brother drivers, IPP driverless, and the brlaser alternative OSS driver.
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Scanned Pdf documents do not print every now and then with Brother MFC-J6930DW

I have the Brother MFC-J6930DW printer. Documents can be printed with Linux Mint without problems. PDF's created from documents are also no problem to print. If I want to print a scanned document, the print fails for some documents. Printing stands…
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Brother, double sided print is waiting for second page

A printer (Brother HL-2280DW) which is able to do double-sided print. In the printing options I set to do a double-sided printing, but sending data small enough to fit on just one side. The printer goes an infinite waiting for the next page... The…
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