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Asked: 2014-03-06 04:51:58 +0800 CST

Brother DCP-195C Scanner not identified

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I'm having trouble getting my Brother DCP-195C recognized as a scanner on Ubuntu 12.04. I've installed the drivers from Brother, but scanning programs, like scangui or xsane cannot see the device. I checked with sane-find-scanner and the scanner is listed: 

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04f9 [Brother], product=0x0222 [DCP-195C]) at libusb:005:002

I added the udev rules as well to /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules:

# Brother 
 ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

I've also tried linked the files from /usr/lib64/ into /usr/lib/.

What else can I try?

12.04

2 Answers

  1. Try this solution, I find it on net

    Printer

    Download LPR driver and cupswrapper driver from Brother Solution Center

    • Create directory /var/spool/lpd/dcp195c needed to install LPR driver
    • Open a terminal as sudo and go to directory with drivers

    • Install LPR driver

      dpkg -i --force-all dcp195clpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb

    • Install cupswrapper driver

      dpkg -i --force-all dcp195ccupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.deb

    • Check LPR driver and cupswrapper driver are installed

      dpkg  -l  |  grep  Brother

    • Check printer is on the cups web interface

    Scanner

    • Download the scanner driver (brscan3 for DCP-195C)
    • Open the terminal, log in as sudo and go to directory with drivers

    • Install the scanner driver

      dpkg  -i  --force-all  brscan3-0.2.11-2.amd64.deb

    • Check the scanner driver is installed

      dpkg  -l  |  grep  Brother

    • To enable scanner for a normal user, open for edit the following file

      nano /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rule

    • Add the following lines to the end of the file and restart the system

      # Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
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  2. I think I downloaded the wrong versions of the drivers (an old search link perhaps). I went to Brother's site again and used their download search. I took the version listed here and installed (it is brscan3, not the brscan I had before). Once I did it appeared in my programs and works fine.

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