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trilobite

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From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Registered: 2017-06-27

Posts: 161

[SOLVED] Xsane not finding scanner (Brother)

I get this

$ dpkg -l | grep Brother
ii  brscan2                                    0.2.5-1                              amd64        Brother Scanner Driver
ii  mfc3360ccupswrapper:i386                   1.0.1-1                              i386         Brother CUPS Inkjet Printer Definitions
ii  mfc3360clpr:i386                           1.0.1-1                              i386         Brother lpr Inkjet Printer Definitions

I did

$ sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/cupsys /etc/init.d/lpd

per instructions
so I know the scanner is there. It shows up as a printer fine. I can run another networked scanner, so I know xsane is working okay. Somehow xsane does not see the scanner. Any ideas? Thanks.

This scanner info is here: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa … &type3=566

-mod edit- Added [SOLVED] to thread title.

Last edited by hhh (2025-06-04 22:54:37)

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PackRat

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Re: [SOLVED] Xsane not finding scanner (Brother)

From the command line does sane recognize the scanner:

scanimage -L

If it does you can test it by scanning from the command line:

scanimage --format=png --output-file test.png --progress

More trouble shooting and command from Arch Wiki - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE

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trilobite

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From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Registered: 2017-06-27

Posts: 161

Re: [SOLVED] Xsane not finding scanner (Brother)

Solved.
Thanks to you. The arch instructions added the ipp-usb package. The scanner now appears in the list of devices. Thanks very much!

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johnraff

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Registered: 2015-09-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Xsane not finding scanner (Brother)

Luckily ipp-usb is a Recommends of bunsen-meta-printer-support so installing that package with recommends (the default) should see most users OK.
But @trilobite thanks for the reminder.

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