The Department of my spouse is now using Brother over HP
printer/scanners. To duplicate what she has in her office, we purchased
the same machine for our use, a Brother dcpl2540dw. I installed the
Brother proprietary Linux drivers, and using the SL 7 printer
configuration application (CUPS based), had no issues with getting the
printer to print a test page using our home IEEE 802.11 network.
However, it appears that the dcpl2540dw will not scan to a USB device,
unlike the HP unit, but only to a computer on a network. Has anyone
been able to get the Brother dcpl2540dw to operate as a network scanner?
The computer in her office has the printer physically near her office
tower workstation (not a laptop), and is connected USB. Thus, there is
no network connection to the printer in her office, unlike at home.
However, in neither case have I been able to get the scanning
functionality to work.
Also, what application does one use to accept the scan or to allow the
scanner to produce a .pdf file on the target computer? I simply scanned
to a MS FAT file system USB memory stick on the HP unit, but evidently
the Brother does not have this capability. Once on a memory stick, the
PDF file easily could be accessed on a SL7 system.
I have found a systems tool that is claimed to simplify the process and
not depend upon updates from Brother as new releases of Linux appear:
https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother_dcp_l2540dw.html
Has anyone used this application? If so, any comments? Is there any
GPL, etc., application with similar functionality?
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
