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
On 15-05-26 10:37 AM, o1bigtenor wrote:
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!!).
A search turned up the following page which has some information that you might find helpful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1842372 -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
Hi Dee
I bought a Brother MFC-J6510DW ...
Can this device scan to an SD card, and if so, does the printer export that card as a network share? That's the approach I have to take with my Epson. I pick the resulting PDFs apart into TIFF scans and add good-enough OCR with Tesseract. While I can get SANE to work for single page scans, it doesn't drive the ADF or duplexer properly. Cheers Stewart
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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| From: Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> | 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) I have a Brother DCP-7065DN. The situation is just as you describe. I have to install drivers for each function on each client machine. I would not have bought it if I had known that it required proprietary binary drivers. But it does work, for printing and scanning. I haven't tried "scan key tool". ===== I have found some problems with scanning or printing. I think that they are on the open-source side (thank goodness). See, for example <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035090> - duplexing didn't always work as expected - landscape / portrait things don't always work - simplescan is great because it is simple but I have had some problems with it
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:57 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com>
| 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)
I have a Brother DCP-7065DN. The situation is just as you describe. I have to install drivers for each function on each client machine.
I would not have bought it if I had known that it required proprietary binary drivers. But it does work, for printing and scanning. I haven't tried "scan key tool".
I have installed the proprietary drivers. Have installed XSane backend and frontend. Can't decipher how to setup their web based setup tool. Haven't tried printing (cause I don't want to) but I need the scanning. Brother tech support is somewhat like molasses going uphill in a liquid nitrogen tank. Haven't been able to find anything for info on the bscan4 because its newer but doesn't just work either. Trying to find ways to use XSane but can't find a reasonable description of that either! Makes me think that scanning is a seldom used activity! Dee
| From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> | I have installed the proprietary drivers. Have installed XSane backend and | frontend. SANE is the collection of scanner drivers Xsane is a GUI program (crude but powerful) that is from the same project. simplescan is a lot simpler. Any scanning software needs to find the scanner. googling will show you the drill (which I don't remember). | Can't decipher how to setup their web based setup tool. I didn't use a GUI for setting up my Brother printer/scanner. There was a gui involved in telling the scanning software where the driver is. What I think that I did: - installed brscan4 binary - brsaneconfig4 -a name=BrotherScanner model=DCP-7065dn ip=192.168.2.12 (a different IP) - brsaneconfig4 -q First device is numbered 0. Remember to put a hole in your firewall. UDP 54925, I think.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com>
| I have installed the proprietary drivers. Have installed XSane backend and | frontend.
SANE is the collection of scanner drivers
Xsane is a GUI program (crude but powerful) that is from the same project. simplescan is a lot simpler.
Any scanning software needs to find the scanner. googling will show you the drill (which I don't remember).
| Can't decipher how to setup their web based setup tool.
I didn't use a GUI for setting up my Brother printer/scanner. There was a gui involved in telling the scanning software where the driver is.
What I think that I did:
- installed brscan4 binary
- brsaneconfig4 -a name=BrotherScanner model=DCP-7065dn ip=192.168.2.12 (a different IP)
- brsaneconfig4 -q First device is numbered 0.
Remember to put a hole in your firewall. UDP 54925, I think.
Got all the tasks but the last one. I thought that the firewall is on the outside of my network and my url (slightly different that the one listed) is on my network. Could this be the entire issue? Dee
| From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> | On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> | wrote: | > Remember to put a hole in your firewall. UDP 54925, I think. | Got all the tasks but the last one. I thought that the firewall is on the | outside of my network | and my url (slightly different that the one listed) is on my network. Not a URL, an IP address. On my network, all things have static IP addresses. So I forgot to mention that issue. I don't remember how brscan4 discovers IP addresses. It might be easiest if you give your printer a static address (configuring your DHCP server (probably in your router) to do so). Then you can tell brscan4 the IP address as I did. | Could this be the entire issue? When you install Linux you are likely to get a simply configured firewall. And it is likely to block UDP 54925. But it depends on your distro. I don't know about Debian Testing -- someone else surely does. Maybe useful (first google hit): <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall> To see the firewall rules in gory raw detail: sudo iptables -L -v
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:32 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com>
| On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> | wrote:
| > Remember to put a hole in your firewall. UDP 54925, I think.
| Got all the tasks but the last one. I thought that the firewall is on the | outside of my network | and my url (slightly different that the one listed) is on my network.
Not a URL, an IP address. On my network, all things have static IP addresses. So I forgot to mention that issue. I don't remember how brscan4 discovers IP addresses. It might be easiest if you give your printer a static address (configuring your DHCP server (probably in your router) to do so). Then you can tell brscan4 the IP address as I did.
Sorry - - - still learning the exact terms and where they fit! Should have just said quad and I would have been closer!
| Could this be the entire issue?
When you install Linux you are likely to get a simply configured firewall. And it is likely to block UDP 54925. But it depends on your distro. I don't know about Debian Testing -- someone else surely does. Maybe useful (first google hit): <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall>
To see the firewall rules in gory raw detail: sudo iptables -L -v
My firewall is on the router (running DD-WRT) so I was thinking that my network should be behind the wall. Not sure how to do any of that and I'm running out of time to get the needed work done! Thank you so much for your advice! Dee
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> wrote:
When you install Linux you are likely to get a simply configured firewall. And it is likely to block UDP 54925. But it depends on your distro. I don't know about Debian Testing -- someone else surely does. Maybe useful (first google hit): <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall>
To see the firewall rules in gory raw detail: sudo iptables -L -v
My firewall is on the router (running DD-WRT) so I was thinking that my network should be behind the wall. Not sure how to do any of that and I'm running out of time to get the needed work done!
Every machine on a network can have a firewall. I think the default set up for Ubuntu/Debian is to have no firewall enabled (Ubuntu Desktop definitely has no firewall on by default). So, it's possible if you have a firewall on your computer that that's why it's not working. Try running the "sudo iptables -L -v" as recommended and confirm whether your system is blocking anything or not. If that command doesn't list anything, then it's not a firewall issue.
Nothing listed. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> wrote:
When you install Linux you are likely to get a simply configured firewall. And it is likely to block UDP 54925. But it depends on your distro. I don't know about Debian Testing -- someone else surely does. Maybe useful (first google hit): <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall>
To see the firewall rules in gory raw detail: sudo iptables -L -v
My firewall is on the router (running DD-WRT) so I was thinking that my network should be behind the wall. Not sure how to do any of that and I'm running out of time to get the needed work done!
Every machine on a network can have a firewall. I think the default set up for Ubuntu/Debian is to have no firewall enabled (Ubuntu Desktop definitely has no firewall on by default). So, it's possible if you have a firewall on your computer that that's why it's not working. Try running the "sudo iptables -L -v" as recommended and confirm whether your system is blocking anything or not. If that command doesn't list anything, then it's not a firewall issue. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
I have a Brother DCP-7065DN. The situation is just as you describe. I have to install drivers for each function on each client machine.
I would not have bought it if I had known that it required proprietary binary drivers. But it does work, for printing and scanning. I haven't tried "scan key tool".
We have a Brother MFC-9120CN (networked colour laser/copier/scanner/fax) which isn't quite so bad. There's a specific .ppd to feed CUPS for the printer side to be happy. And scanning pushes a choice of .jpg or .pdf content to a Samba share. I don't think we've ever actually tried to send or receive a fax, FWIW. Before that we had a Brother HL-2030 monochrome laser, which worked fine but the aforementioned unit was too useful and inexpensive to pass up. The older printer then got our firstborn through an Engineering degree and might be wanting a fresh drum soon. -- Anthony de Boer
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