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Idk how is it with brother printers, but brother scanners are an absolute PITA to make work on Arch
Over the network can be hit or miss but the usb cable and the drivers from the AUR have yet to fail me
I have a ds640 (an usb scanner), and I've spent maybe 2 hours installing&reinstalling&removing drivers from the aur. Nothing worked. Installed Fedora just to see if things worked over there (as fedora is officially supported by brother) and things worked perfectly. Then i booted on my arch install arch once again, AND EVERYTHING WORKED. Alleluia. But I still don't know why, as I didn't touch nothing between last time i tried and now. Idk.
Maybe just the reboot? Something was probably installed that was not started yet and it was started as part of the boot process?
I did reboot several times during my first try.. Idk.. Now it works, but its still a mistery why..
I can't even get this Brother to scan to a flash drive in its own USB port. It acts like it's successful; it scans and no errors show up... but the files just aren't there. Tried multiple USB drives and made sure they were formatted to FAT32 in a sector size that Brother recommended in the manual.
Printing to it from Debian was even easier than expected, though. Plug it in, it shows up as a networked printer, and you print to it.
Yeah, cups is truly amazing. Dont know about your issue with usbs drives tho; sorry..