I use a Brother printer at work, but it's been a long time since I set it up. I do remember that there were separate drivers for printing and scanning. I'm able to use "Simple Scan" in Ubuntu and it pulls the scan from the machine. I don't think I was able to get it to scan from the printer and have it send to my machine. You may have already seen this, but here's where all the driver files are located: http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj6510dw_all&os=128 It seems that to get the scanning to work from the printer end I would have to also install the "scan key tool". (not really a concern of mine, though) On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings
I'm hoping that someone out there has achieved success and can point me to some pointers!
I bought a Brother MFC-J6510DW largely because it can scan 11 x 17 inch documents (I have too many like that that I would like to get into electronic format!!).
I can see the machine as a printer but cannot get the machine to scan a page. I have installed XSane 1.0.24 backend and XSane1.0.14 frontend. Tried running the ethernet cable through the router (a la network usage) and can't get anything useful to occu. I have also tried running the ethernet cable directly into my main machine (Debian testing) with also no joy. Have also contacted Brother support and although their website and the stickers on the machine laud their online chat and telephone support for linux its email support (if they can be bothered! (they are taking a very long time to respond!!)).
Any suggestions?
TIA
Dee
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