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Antonello
Asked: 2021-01-16 01:34:16 +0800 CST

Scan part of Brother DCP L2550DN (and possibly other Brother scan) not working on Ubuntu 20.04

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Even with the Brother own drivers installed, the scan part of "Brother DCP L2550DN" is not working (scan not found, sometimes even scanning but returning an error) on simple-scan or xsane in Ubuntu 20.04, while it was working on earlier versions.

(Note that this is a solved question, posted for others to get the solution quickly)

20.04

1 Answers

  1. Brother released a "patch" deb specific for Ubuntu 20.04 (and derivatives) that solves the problem (possibly related to this bug):

    https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqend.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=hll6300dw_eu&ftype3=100257&faqid=faq00100729_000

    Note: While personally tested on DCP L2550DN, this solution should also apply to other Brother multifunction printer/scanners, like e.g. HL-L6300DW(T)

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