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Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

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I use and recommend the Brother MFC-L2740DW wireless multifunction 
device (greyscale duplex laser and colour scanner). It works well for 
both Linux and Mac clients. You might not be able to get this exact 
model any more as it is over three years old. I suspect that the current 
equivalent is the MFC-L2770DW, not the MFC-L2713DW, which lacks PCL6 
emulation.

On Debian I am using:

cups 2.2.8-4
foomatic-db-compressed-ppds 20180604-1

Settings:

Driver:	Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended) 
(color, 2-sided printing)
Connection:	http://192.168.1.11/ipp
Defaults:	job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm 
sides=two-sided-long-edge

Note that these settings use PCL6 emulation. Models that lack PCL6 
support may need proprietary Brother CUPS drivers. When I checked, these 
were only available for i386. When I switched to the foomatic PCL6 
driver, I was able to ditch the i386 drivers and my entire i386 arch 
support. This was a few years ago and the situation may be better.

For XSane scanning I use the the proprietary brscan4 0.4.4-2 amd64 
package from Brother, set up with (as root):

brsaneconfig4 -a name=Brother_MFC-L2740DW model=MFC-L2740DW ip=192.168.1.11

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2018-07-08 04:20 +0200
  Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-08 04:50 +0200
    Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-09 17:30 +0200
  Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-09 17:20 +0200
    Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2018-07-09 18:30 +0200
      Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-10 00:30 +0200
        Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-10 00:50 +0200
          Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-07-10 01:00 +0200
            Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-10 01:10 +0200
              Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-07-10 05:50 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-10 16:10 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-10 17:00 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-11 16:50 +0200
              Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-10 20:00 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-10 20:30 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-10 21:00 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-10 21:20 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-07-11 14:10 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-11 18:40 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-11 19:50 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-12 23:30 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-13 15:00 +0200
                Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-13 19:10 +0200
          Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in  particular) Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-10 01:30 +0200

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