Hi everyone
This is my first post on CachyOS and I’m a beginner. I have a Brother DCP-T310 and I’m using it to learn how to get a multifunction printer completely running.
The printer works fine and the output is also of good quality. I even managed to print with LibreOffice, PDF files and even the test pages from CUPS. However, I did not succeed getting the scanner to work.
It was done with the official Brother Linux packages for:
https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=in&lang=en&prod=dcpt310_all&os=135
Same model drivers were also tested from:
https://printerdrivers.com/brother-dcp-t310-driver/
Both installations went smoothly and printer standing unchanged after that printed perfectly on USB.
Once installed, I rebooted the computer, CUPS service restart, check printer settings visibility of device. Via USB printing works perfectly.
Where the problem lies is that scanning is not working. No scanner was detected either by Simple Scan or XSane. At the command line:
scanimage -L
shows no scanner devices.
I have done a bit of research and look around the CachyOS forums. It looked like nearly always with Brother printers some extra methods were needed to get the scanning done after the printing worked. These might have involved installing AUR packages including brscan4 or manual registration of the scanner. A minority even took printing for granted while scanning demanded the extra setting.
Now, I consider that maybe I’m missing the following pieces:
brscan4 setting file
SANE setting file
udev rules definition
firewall settings
scanner registration commands
other AUR packages
Below is the description of my setup:
Latest CachyOS installation
KDE Plasma
Brother DCP-T310
USB connection
If you have successfully configured a Brother DCP-T310 scanner on CachyOS, please let me know.
Thank you in advance if you can share your experience.