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#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER HOW TO#
#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER INSTALL#
#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER 64 BIT#
#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER DRIVER#
#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER PC#

#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER 64 BIT#

Getting a Brother MFC scanner working via the network with 64 bit Ubuntu and Linux Mint If Network connections are operational you should be able to print a test page successfully.

#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER DRIVER#

Under 'Select driver from database' select Brother as manufacturer then click next and find MFC-6490CW CUPS in the model list (it's easy to spot as it's usually the only one with CUPS on the end).

Under 'Enter device URI' enter your printers IP address with the LDP protocol eg. In Ubuntu printer utility, click the 'add printer' button. The driver will have added a listing for the printer on the assumption that it is plugged in with USB (usb:/dev/usb/lp0).ĭelete this entry from Ubuntu printer utility before continuing. Sudo dpkg -i -force-all mfc6490cwcupswrapper-1.1. Sudo dpkg -i -force-all mfc6490cwlpr-1.1. If the response is ' x86_64' you're running 64-bit, if it's something like ' i686' you're running 32-bit.ĭownload driver packages appropriate to your system. Make a note of your printer's IP address.įind out if your system is 32-bit or 64-bit. This way your computer will always know which address to contact the printer on. It makes us look like sniggering schoolboys.How to Setup Brother MFC-6490CW Network Printer with UbuntuĬonfigure your router to reserve a static IP address for your printer. Now, when you hit the Scan button on the scanner, it will quietly create a file named something like in the brscan folder in your home folder and not show anything on screen, and this means that it’s a lot easier to scan a bunch of photos one after the other. Change the last line fromĮcho gimp -n $output_file 2>/dev/null \ rm -f $output_file | sh &Įcho convert $output_file $output_file.jpg 2>/dev/null \ rm -f $output_file | sh &

#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER INSTALL#

To do this, first install imagemagick, and then edit the file /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/script/scantoimage-0.2.4-1.sh with sudo. This is quite annoying if you need to scan more than one thing, though, so there’s an optional extra step, which is to change things so that it doesn’t pop up the GIMP and instead just saves the scanned photo which is much nicer. What will happen is that your machine will pop up the GIMP with the image, which you will then need to export to a format of your choice.

#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER PC#

On the scanner, you should now be able to press the Scan button and choose Scan to PC and then Scan Image, and it should work. If you don’t have the GIMP 1 installed, you’ll need to install it. The easiest way to do this is to run it as a Startup Application open Startup Applications from your launcher by searching from it, and add a new application which runs the command brscan-skey, and restart the machine so that it’s running.

You only need to add the scanner once, but you also need to have brscan-skey running always, because that’s what listens for network scan requests from the scanner itself. (If your Brother scanner isn’t a DCP-7055W, you can find the other codenames for types it knows about with brsaneconfig4 -q and then use one of those as the model with brsaneconfig4 -a.) You can test this with brsaneconfig4 -p which will ping the scanner, and brsaneconfig4 -q which will list all the scanner types it knows about and then list your added scanner at the end under Devices on network. This should teach the computer about the scanner.

The thing you want from that is address, which in this case is 192.168.1.21. = wlan0 IPv4 Brother DCP-7055W UNIX Printer local This will dump out a whole load of stuff, some of which should look like this: You need to know the scanner’s IP address you can find this out from the scanner itself, or you can use avahi-resolve -v -a -r to search your network for it. This is what brsaneconfig4 is for, and is all done in the Terminal. Next, teach the computer about the scanner. This should give you two new commands in the Terminal: brsaneconfig4 and brscan-skey. At time of writing, has the software, but if that’s not there when you read this, search the Brother site for DCP-7055 and choose Downloads, then Linux and Linux (deb), and get the Driver Installer Tool. First, go off to the Brother website and download the scanner software. It would be nice if Brother made this easier, but I suppose that it working at all under Ubuntu is an improvement on nothing.Īnyway.

#UBUNTU NETWORK SCANNER HOW TO#

This was more fiddly than it should be, and involved a bunch of annoying terminal work, so I’m documenting it here so I don’t lose track of how to do it should I have to do it again. My dad’s got a Brother DCP-7055W printer/scanner, and he wanted to be able to set it up as a network scanner to his Ubuntu machine.