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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 13 Aug 2010, 18:36 Post subject:
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Strampke wrote: | For simple users like me maybe a pet would do. |
Fair enough. I just built a PET for your HL2150N and posted it above. It took about 20 minutes. When I have some spare time, I'll start working on the other 199 models
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aracnachid

Joined: 26 May 2010 Posts: 27 Location: Aotearoa
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Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 17:59 Post subject:
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Hey I'm happy to help with pets for the brother drivers.. I will post the DCP195C drivers as a pet here later today...... I am having a problem getting the printer to print in A4 I changed the paper size to A4 in the above fore-mentioned file and when I print a test page I reverts to Letter size paper......... any ideas anyone?
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 18:29 Post subject:
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aracnachid wrote: | I am having a problem getting the printer to print in A4 I changed the paper size to A4 in the above fore-mentioned file and when I print a test page I reverts to Letter size paper......... any ideas anyone? |
Go into your CUPS settings and check Printer Options. The Media Size is probably set to Letter. Change it there.
I've never been clear on which of these paper settings over-rides the others. What happens when you print from an application? If you set A4 in your word processor, does it print correctly?
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MRT42
Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 27
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 08:38 Post subject:
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I have been given a Brother MFC-7345N multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. I am trying to get it running. I saw that stevesr0 said the printer driver for the MFC-7440N worked for his MFC-7345N. I installed the pet for the MFC-7440N and the printer works fine for me. However when I tried to follow the instructions for installing a scanner driver I found that the MFC-7345N is not listed but the MFC-7440N is listed in the brscan3 deb pkgs. I hoped that since it worked for the printer driver it would also work for the scanner. I installed it using debbi but when I run xsane it says no devices available.
I ran 'sane-find-scanner' in terminal and this is what it says.
"found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9, product=0x0214) at libusb:006:002
#Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
#SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage."
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 09:09 Post subject:
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Your Product ID is 0x0214. Look in the file /usr/local/Brother/sane/Brasane3.ini. You will see that other models are listed by what I would assume is also the product ID. In particular, Line 51 has an entry for 0x0215.
If you make up a similar entry for your MFC-7345N, maybe you can get it detected. OTOH, there may be a reason why Brother does not supply a Linux driver for this unit.
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MRT42
Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 27
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 10:06 Post subject:
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It seems to have worked partially. Following the pattern of line 51 in the Brsane3.ini file I made the following entry on line 52.
0x0214,117,1,"MFC-7345N",133,4
When I run xsane it seems to find the scanner and open. But when I try to scan I get an error message "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument"
Did I perhaps make a mistake?
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 10:26 Post subject:
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Quote: | Did I perhaps make a mistake? |
At this point, all you can do is try other variations of that line and see if one works.
Because Brother doesn't show a Linux driver for it, it may not work at all.
[Edit] Try
Code: | 0x0214,1,1,"MFC-7345N",131,4 |
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MRT42
Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 27
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 10:55 Post subject:
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Got it working. Here is the entry that worked.
0x0214,1,1,"MFC-7345N",131,4
It is similar to the 7440N on line 40 but with the product ID of the 7345N.
Thanks so much.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 11:27 Post subject:
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Glad to help. I wonder if Brother just forgot about this model.
Have you tried to run it as a networked scanner, using hokal's instructions above?
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MRT42
Joined: 04 Sep 2010 Posts: 27
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Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2010, 11:51 Post subject:
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No I haven't tried to run as a networked scanner yet. I will try it though later and let you know how it goes.
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xybrdog
Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Posts: 3
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Posted: Fri 24 Dec 2010, 00:24 Post subject:
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Thank you very much. I had a bit of trouble, but finally got things worked out. It appears that that setup works for USB operation. I've been using my LAN port on my laptop when I run Windows, as this saves me a USB port. I could not make it work with the LAN connection and I noticed an error message when I went to look at the print jobs, that said something to the effect that it couldn't establish a USB connection to the printer. So, I hooked it up that way and it worked just fine.
I'd still like to find out if and how to make it work with a network connection, but I can live with what I have for now. I'm trying to stay away from using windows as much as I can.
Once again thanks for the info, it was much appreciated.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 24 Dec 2010, 09:05 Post subject:
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How are you connecting this printer as a LAN device - through its own ethernet connection to a hub/router? If so, go to the CUPS web interface and delete the printer as a USB device. Then install it again using "Find New Printers". CUPS should now detect it as a networked printer. The HL-4040CDN driver should still be there. If not, install it using the PET I posted above.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Tue 25 Jan 2011, 22:44 Post subject:
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The MFC-J415W can be used in either USB or wireless mode. Its scanner driver is brscan3-0.2.11.pet and works well with Peasyscan after you show the advanced options.
The MFC-440CN is also a multi-function device and uses the scanner driver brscan2-0.2.5
The DCP-135C is a printer/scanner. Its printer driver PET is attached below. The scanner requires the brscan2-0.2.5.pet below.
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bass.mike
Joined: 26 May 2011 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu 26 May 2011, 22:47 Post subject:
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I have spent hour and hours trying to make this work. The printer is attached via network / router. puppy 5.2 sees the printer but no matter what I try I cannot get the cups to see the drivers? Thanks for all the great work you do!
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 27 May 2011, 07:44 Post subject:
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We need to get the model number exactly correct. Is this an MFC440CN or an HL4040CDN or something else?
Quote: | but no matter what I try I cannot get the cups to see the drivers? |
What exactly do you mean by this?
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