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Re: [opensuse] Brother printer drivers (rpm) and SuSE
- From: "Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:49:59 -0500
- Message-id: <23fd749a0811281949x6542ec61n75b14487375a3aa9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:48, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an "MFC-465cn" .. you might have mixed up the last 2 letters.
It works perfect in 10.3 and 11.0 with the RPMs from the Brother site
for both the CUPS printing and scanning with any SANE application.
You need to install both the LPR and CUPS drivers. By default the
printer will be setup for USB, so if you are using it on the LAN go to
http://localhost:631 and edit the printer with the correct URL.
For scanning you need to add the scanner using a Brother commandline
utillity. For multi-page scanning Kooka does not support it. I think
"gScanToPDF" does but I don't recall if it is in 11.0. The commandline
tool "scanadf" also needs to be installed if you want to scan multiple
pages through the ADF... otherwise it will scan the first page and
feed the remaining through the ADF.
Not the best MFC, the inkjet printing isn't great (then again, I've
gotten used to the crisp text my Lexmark laser produces) and the
scanner is nothing to write home about. But the scanner is quick and
not bad for B&W or grey scanning for archivial, the fax works and is
not too bad if you only use the printer for color every now and then.
And of course Brother offers pretty good Linux support. The
aftermarket ink on eBay is very cheap, too.... but then again, what do
you expect for the $90-120 the thing costs?
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I have bought a new Brother printer (MFC-465nc). In trying to install it
through YaST, I find that this model number is not in the list of
recognized printers.
But the Brother Linux site has a set of drivers for the print, fax, and
scanner functions; all these are downloadable in the form of RPMs. There
is no indication of whether these files are Red-Hat RPMs or SuSE RPMs, or
whether they are suitable for both distributions (agnostic?
ambidextrous?)
Can I install these drivers in my openSuSE v10.3 system?
I have an "MFC-465cn" .. you might have mixed up the last 2 letters.
It works perfect in 10.3 and 11.0 with the RPMs from the Brother site
for both the CUPS printing and scanning with any SANE application.
You need to install both the LPR and CUPS drivers. By default the
printer will be setup for USB, so if you are using it on the LAN go to
http://localhost:631 and edit the printer with the correct URL.
For scanning you need to add the scanner using a Brother commandline
utillity. For multi-page scanning Kooka does not support it. I think
"gScanToPDF" does but I don't recall if it is in 11.0. The commandline
tool "scanadf" also needs to be installed if you want to scan multiple
pages through the ADF... otherwise it will scan the first page and
feed the remaining through the ADF.
Not the best MFC, the inkjet printing isn't great (then again, I've
gotten used to the crisp text my Lexmark laser produces) and the
scanner is nothing to write home about. But the scanner is quick and
not bad for B&W or grey scanning for archivial, the fax works and is
not too bad if you only use the printer for color every now and then.
And of course Brother offers pretty good Linux support. The
aftermarket ink on eBay is very cheap, too.... but then again, what do
you expect for the $90-120 the thing costs?
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