Brother MFC-J5910DW
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Introduction
This page gives a brief guidance on how to make the Brother MFC-J5910DW printer/scanner work on Arch. While it refers to the MFC-J5910DW specifically, it can be used for most Brother printers assuming the relevant packages can be found in AUR. For the scanner part, the 4 number at the end of brscan4 should be adapted according to the directions given on the relevant page of the Brother Solutions Center.
Printer
Prerequisites
- You must have the sudo package installed from the official repositories and be in the sudoers — to add your user in the sudoers, please refer to the sudo page.
- arch x86_64 requires lib32-libcups thus the [multilib] repository must be activated in /etc/pacman.conf
Install the drivers
Install brother-mfc-j5910dwAUR from AUR. Then use the cups'web interface as described in the CUPS page to add the printer.
Scanner
Install the drivers
Install the brscan4AUR from AUR.
Set up the scanner
Follow the directions given in the SANE page to setup the scanner.
Install a frontend for sane
Install the xsane package from the official repositories.