On 27/08/2021 08:07, Pancho wrote:

On 25/08/2021 04:03, bob prohaska wrote:

Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> wrote:

On 24/08/2021 00:03, bob prohaska wrote:

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS? I've got gimp
and xsane installed, but neither can see the 8480. However, it
functions just fine as a network printer, so at least the
communications part is working ok. I can telnet into the printer,
but apart from looking around I'm fairly clueless. Typing
show netscan reports
Network scan is enabled
but that's all she writes.

I gather there are "scanner drivers" named brscan2 and brscan3,
but neither is available via apt-get and it's unclear if they're
even relevant to linux or the Raspberry Pi.

Thanks for reading, and any suggestions!

bob prohaska

As an alternative idea...

 From my scanner (not a Brother), you can scan directly to a network
share mounted on the rpi, in my case SMB. I suspect this would work on
the MFC-8480dn, too. I also suspect the MFC-8480dn provides a web
interface - "Web based management".

Everything is done from the scanner, so no driver is required on the
rpi.

Scanner docs aren't a lot of help, but I'll start digging.

Thanks for the hint,

bob prohaska

Yeah, I had a quick look and couldn't see save to network drive. I did
see that you could send scans to a smtp server, which is a round about
way of achieving the same thing.

very easy to set up one of those on a Pi...

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bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote in news:sg19gp$djj$1@dont-email.me:

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS?

Yep! Can use https://www.hamrick.com, simply, fast, efficent and for all RPI.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother_mfc_8480dn.html#technical-information

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On 27/08/2021 16:51, Allen wrote:

bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote in news:sg19gp$djj$1@dont-email.me:

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS?

Yep! Can use https://www.hamrick.com, simply, fast, efficent and for all RPI.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother_mfc_8480dn.html#technical-information

"VueScan is compatible with the Brother MFC-8480DN on Windows x86,
Windows x64, Windows RT, Windows 10 ARM, Mac OS X and Linux."

But not ARM linux.

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 27/08/2021 16:51, Allen wrote:

bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote in news:sg19gp$djj$1@dont-email.me:

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS?

Yep! Can use https://www.hamrick.com, simply, fast, efficent and for all
RPI.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother_mfc_8480dn.html#technical-informat >> ion

"VueScan is compatible with the Brother MFC-8480DN on Windows x86,
Windows x64, Windows RT, Windows 10 ARM, Mac OS X and Linux."

But not ARM linux.

My first post on this usenet group,

But according to https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html

There are now versions for ARM32 and ARM64 on Linux

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On 08/24/2021 01:03 AM, bob prohaska wrote:

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS? I've got gimp
and xsane installed, but neither can see the 8480. However, it
functions just fine as a network printer, so at least the
communications part is working ok. I can telnet into the printer,
but apart from looking around I'm fairly clueless. Typing
show netscan reports
Network scan is enabled
but that's all she writes.

I gather there are "scanner drivers" named brscan2 and brscan3,
but neither is available via apt-get and it's unclear if they're
even relevant to linux or the Raspberry Pi.

Thanks for reading, and any suggestions!

bob prohaska

I believe you have to install them from the brother homepage.
I have a DCP 7010 here. and had to do that....ages ago.. tho I do not remember what exactly I did. I do remember digging through their source code to figure out why
my scans were truncated. (GIMP likes to crash on truncated pnm files)
So, you might have to fix that.
The brscan is a sane backend. So you will have to install that too.
use xsane et all, or their commandline versions.

sometimes you will get error messages as the printer driver(CUPS)
seems to fight in there with the sane driver over the USB port or something. and there is always that one TCP packet stuck in the receive queue...

tcp 1 0 localhost.localdo:47019 localhost.localdoma:ipp CLOSE_WAIT tcp 1 0 localhost.localdo:47020 localhost.localdoma:ipp CLOSE_WAIT

(it will /never/ close)


well, it is LINUX after all..
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Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

But according to https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html

There are now versions for ARM32 and ARM64 on Linux

Seems to be true. The website stuffed a downloaded file called
vuea32-9.765.tgz into my downloads directory without being asked.
It's claimed to be for a Raspberry Pi, which rather implies ARM..

I'm trying to use the tools available without spending money on
something that'll be used _very_ infrequently. The scanner has
a Scan to Nework and a Scan to FTP function that appears to be
configurable using the web server on the printer. So far I haven't
figured out what the configuration procedure is, but that's likely
the thing to pursue. So far, it seems that Brother's Control Center
software is key to setting it up, which is unfortunate.

In the worst case I can always scan to a USB stick...... and, it
still works with my old iMac.

Thanks to everybody !

bob prohaska


In the worst case
the machine will scan to a USB flash drive
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:15:09 -0000 (UTC)
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

But according to https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html

There are now versions for ARM32 and ARM64 on Linux

Seems to be true. The website stuffed a downloaded file called vuea32-9.765.tgz into my downloads directory without being asked.
It's claimed to be for a Raspberry Pi, which rather implies ARM..

I'm trying to use the tools available without spending money on
something that'll be used _very_ infrequently. The scanner has
a Scan to Nework and a Scan to FTP function that appears to be
configurable using the web server on the printer. So far I haven't
figured out what the configuration procedure is, but that's likely
the thing to pursue. So far, it seems that Brother's Control Center
software is key to setting it up, which is unfortunate.

In the worst case I can always scan to a USB stick...... and, it
still works with my old iMac.

Most modern printers will scan to email, but they don't generally have
an MTA built in (how daft is that?) so my oldest Pi is actually sitting
under a corporate desk somewhere running exim4 just for their scanner.

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On 27/08/2021 18:10, Chris Hughes wrote:

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 27/08/2021 16:51, Allen wrote:

bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote in news:sg19gp$djj$1@dont-email.me: >>>

Can a Brother MFC-8480dn all-in-one printer/scanner/fax be used to
scan and import images into a Pi4 running RaspiOS?

Yep! Can use https://www.hamrick.com, simply, fast, efficent and for all >>> RPI.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother_mfc_8480dn.html#technical-informat >>> ion

"VueScan is compatible with the Brother MFC-8480DN on Windows x86,
Windows x64, Windows RT, Windows 10 ARM, Mac OS X and Linux."

But not ARM linux.

My first post on this usenet group,

But according to https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html

There are now versions for ARM32 and ARM64 on Linux

But only foe WINDOWS on ARM, not LINUX


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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 27/08/2021 18:10, Chris Hughes wrote:

But according to https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html
There are now versions for ARM32 and ARM64 on Linux

But only foe WINDOWS on ARM, not LINUX

It's there, check again.
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