Re: Scanner software for Brother mfc8480dn

Mike Easter wrote:

bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

For the first time in recent memory I'd like to do some scanning with my Brother MFC8480DN all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, and I'd like to use my Pi5 for the job since it's the only up-to-date computer I have.

 My idea would be to first be booting up one of the distro/s which
has a good form of persistence and which is likely to be compatible
w/ the Brother linux ware, just to see if I could get it to scan
live w/ additions.  Then if that worked out, I would rig such as a
USB so that I could have live w/ persistence of the scanner (w/ or w/
o printer) that I rigged.  Then when I needed to do that, I would
boot that USB.
 

Good things about the RPi5 is that it likely has plenty of ram for these
purposes and it also has USB3 for better speed than my most frequent USB
activity which is 2.
MX is based on Debian, which the Brother ware likes, and MX also has
some very smart MX tools for 'network things'.
That is, I'm sure the RPi5 will boot and run MX in ram from the USB just
fine, and be able to use all kinds of Brother and software for printing
and scanning and faxing for that matter because you have the 'wealth' of
Debian.
There is a MX 'respin' specifically for the Pi:
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-1-raspberry-pi-os-respin/

MX-23.1_rpi_respin takes the MX Tools and access to our MX
repositories from our main line releases and adds them to a system
image suitable for running on recent Raspberry Pi devices. The image
is tested on Pi4, Pi400, and Pi5 systems.

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Mike Easter