Re: printer advice

Kim Holburn via linux-aus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.australia
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I have an old Brother DCP-6690CW MFP which I keep because it's a great A3 scanner.  If I plug a USB memory stick into it it will 
scan to the stick.  Much simpler than messing with network scanning.

On 2023/05/31 8:06 am, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote:
> The scanners on the MFP's are a different story.  Mine scans (it's a
> ET-5170).  But getting scanners to work has always been a struggle for
> me.  The ET-5170 does scan from my laptop (and phone) using the Epson
> supplied close source binary.  It's GUI looked very pretty on start up
> but isn't particularly ergonomic, and it segfaults on occasion. In my
> experience that's par for the course for vendor supplied software.  If
> you can find a scanner supported by SANE you can use open source
> software, which will be more reliable.  I couldn't. 

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