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There are similar questions out there, no answers yet. I have found;

https://askubuntu.com/questions/678454/brother-l2540d-setup-brscan4-for-usb-printer

Brother DCP-7065DN, Ubuntu 14.04 64bit: Can print to network printer but cannot use the scan function

I have a dcp-7060D - I have installed all the programs, it does print now. But it is a local USB printer.

I want to use Simple Scan or Sane.. The above gives help if you are doing it through a network and assign it an ip address.. but no help yet on how to get the applications or scan buttons working if its a local usb device.

Anyone?

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James Schofield
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  • scanimage does find the device, but this does not seem to help me use it.

    james@james-550P5C-550P7C:~$ scanimage -L device `brother4:bus6;dev1' is a Brother DCP-7060D USB scanner

     – James Schofield Jan 08 '16 at 16:16

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I had the same printer, and got it working. A few items to check.

  1. turn on verbose debugging for scanimage -L
export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128; scanimage -L

This will give you more verbose output and show whether it found the driver and load it correctly.

  1. check the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and it needs the value brother4 inside it.
net
#abaton
#agfafocus
#apple
#bh
brother4
  1. Add the file brother4.conf in the directory /etc/sane.d/brother4.conf. Contents below:
# USB-scanners supported by the brother4-backend
# Brother DCP-7060D 
usb 0x04f9 0x0249

  1. Make sure you have the libsane-brother4.so. in the directory /usr/lib64/sane/ This is where the file reside. You can get this file from the brother support website. Go to Brother printer support website and download the scanner executable and look for the .so library files there.

  2. Install xsane. It is a GUI frontend for sane.

xsane info

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