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Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, the software is actually called SANE. I thought you were just making clear how bad Brother's drivers were.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh, yeah. lol. It's the Linux scanner framework. It has a network protocol that will talk to other SANE services and allow scanners to be shared.

My scan programs all go through SANE, so you don't need the Brother drivers on each PC you want to scan from (just the machine that is interfacing with the scanner; in my case, it's a Docker container on my server).

Learning I could do that was pretty life changing. lol