[GTALUG] Help to setup for scanning

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com>

| You may have already seen this, but here's where all the driver files
| are located:  http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj6510dw_all&os=128
| 
| It seems that to get the scanning to work from the printer end I would
| have to also install the "scan key tool".  (not really a concern of
| mine, though)

I have a Brother DCP-7065DN.  The situation is just as you describe.
I have to install drivers for each function on each client machine.

I would not have bought it if I had known that it required proprietary
binary drivers.  But it does work, for printing and scanning.
I haven't tried "scan key tool".

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I have found some problems with scanning or printing.  I think that they 
are on the open-source side (thank goodness).  See, for example 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035090>

- duplexing didn't always work as expected

- landscape / portrait things don't always work

- simplescan is great because it is simple but I have had some problems 
  with it