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Brother printer questions (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My partner and I are thinking about getting a Brother laser printer for home use in the near future. How difficult is it to get a newer model working in a Linux ecosystem? Are there any specific drivers we should look into installing, if a specific driver isn't available for the model we end up getting? Any advice for connecting it to our network?

EDIT: Thank you all for the feedback! It seems that generally you all have had decent experiences with Brother on Linux, depending on the distro, and that there are resources out there to help with any issues that might come up.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Was easy as hell for me, just followed the instructions that came with it and downloaded the drivers through brother's site. Needed the br_scan_skey one too for scanning from the button (but stopped doing that as scanning from the PC just works better, you can change the filetype, "aspect ratio" [not right word but ykwim], and resolution from the pc using something like gnome's Document Scanner, not so from the button.)

I'd look at the specific model before you pull the trigger and go ahead and make sure it has thr drivers on brother's site, for mine (and I imagine most) they have .RPM and .DEB.