hbldh / brotherscan

Tools and documentation on how to get an old Brother Network Printer and Scanner to work

Brother Scanner

Usage

$ python scan.py ~/Scan --prefix=WTF --device="brother4:net1;dev0" -t 8
Will use: 'brother4:net1;dev0' (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Scanning /home/hbldh/Scan/WTF_001.pdf...
100%|██████████| 3472/3472 [00:14<00:00, 59.16it/s] 
Sleeping...: 100%|██████████| 80/80 [00:08<00:00,  9.95it/s]
Scanning /home/hbldh/Scan/WTF_002.pdf...
100%|██████████| 3472/3472 [00:05<00:00, 633.01it/s]
Sleeping...:  46%|████▋     | 37/80 [00:03<00:04,  9.95it/s]

Will keep scanning indefinitely until killed by KeyboardInterrupt.

Linux

Brother Driver, Linux: http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/download_scn.html#brscan4

Find IP of your printer, and configure it with Brother's brsaneconfig4 tool.

brsaneconfig4 -a name=DCPJ725DW model=DCP-J725DW ip=192.168.1.234

This will allow pyinsane2 to find it when scanning network for devices.