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Arch users trying to print files (lemmy.world)
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[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Idk how is it with brother printers, but brother scanners are an absolute PITA to make work on Arch

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Over the network can be hit or miss but the usb cable and the drivers from the AUR have yet to fail me

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I have a ds640 (an usb scanner), and I've spent maybe 2 hours installing&reinstalling&removing drivers from the aur. Nothing worked. Installed Fedora just to see if things worked over there (as fedora is officially supported by brother) and things worked perfectly. Then i booted on my arch install arch once again, AND EVERYTHING WORKED. Alleluia. But I still don't know why, as I didn't touch nothing between last time i tried and now. Idk.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe just the reboot? Something was probably installed that was not started yet and it was started as part of the boot process?

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I did reboot several times during my first try.. Idk.. Now it works, but its still a mistery why..

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I can't even get this Brother to scan to a flash drive in its own USB port. It acts like it's successful; it scans and no errors show up... but the files just aren't there. Tried multiple USB drives and made sure they were formatted to FAT32 in a sector size that Brother recommended in the manual.

Printing to it from Debian was even easier than expected, though. Plug it in, it shows up as a networked printer, and you print to it.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, cups is truly amazing. Dont know about your issue with usbs drives tho; sorry..

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