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Multifunction Laser Printer and Linux
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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I have a Brother MFC-L8900CDW and it works great for printing and scanning on Linux (I use Arch BTW). I use SANE for scanning. You can also set it up to scan to a Samba share or ftp location.
What software do you use? I still haven't found any good scanning software for Linux.
Any SANE front-end will do. I usually use xsane.
Not really. I've tried a lot of scanning apps but they were all grotty. If you scan a lot of documents, decent scanning software is pretty important. You can't just fiddle around for a few minutes with every page.
I don't do much scanning, perhaps 5 times a year, and it's sufficient for my needs. I can definitely see how it leaves gaps if you do a ton of scanning.
Simple Scan works well for me.