Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan - SOLVED

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Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan - SOLVED

Post by floidian »

Hello:

I got this printer working and printing on my OS (Mint 18.3) but it does not scan. Probably I did not install the driver for that? I installed something (something called .deb using the Terminal) from the brother webpage and it prints well.
I am pretty new to Linux.
Thanks so much for any help.
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Re: Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan

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look again at the Brother site... most have a separate scanner package to install.
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Re: Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan

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the scanners on Brother need several little steps to attempt to get them working;

so I would suggest you run their Install Tool; as it should do what you need; it should recognise you already have the printer drivers installed; and just do the scanner; if it duplicates the printer icon; just delete one from the PRINTERS folder;

so go here http://support.brother.com/g/b/download ... dlang=true

and click to download and SAVE what will be linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1.gz

Open a terminal; copy each command below; paste into the terminal; hit the ENTER key; move to next command

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cd Downloads

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gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1.gz

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sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.0-1 mfc-j4510
Please ask if you need help on any of this: hopefully the install tool will cover the 3-4 points you need to cover; to get the scanner going: is it wireless?
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Re: Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan

Post by cato40 »

Hi:
I found that if you download the Brother "scan" package from their site ,you should not have any problems ,I also install any Scanning packages fron Synaptic ;They help.
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[solved] Brother mfc-j4510 does not scan

Post by floidian »

Hi:

Following the download of the gz package and its installation, solved the matter. Thanks.
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