Brother MFC Linux Driver
This webpage is under construction and may not have everything up to
date.!!
About
This site is home to the Brother MFC driver project for both the Parallel
and USB ports. The objective for this project is to get the printer,
scanner and fax functions working in Linux.
Status
USB
Currently the print feature of the printer is working using the USB printer
driver. As for the printer driver itself, you need to select the correct ghostscript
driver according to what printer you have.
The scanner functionality is currently being implemented and will hopefully
be completed soon. Since I (Franklin) am not that experienced with USB
programming, it might take a while to get completed. After the USB interface
is completed, a sane driver will be written to implement the sannning functions.
Faxing has been implemented using a Perl script and Efix programs. This
implementation is only compatable with MFC's compatable with the FCL language.
Please refer to the documentation below for uses and limitations of
the script.
Parallel
The parallel driver is at least suppose to support printing through the
parallel port. As for the scanning and fax, I don't know much about
the status since the other maintainer (Dmitri) is working on it. When
I get the current status, I will update this section.
Documentation
Printing
Currently there is no documentation related to this subject here. Please look at linuxprinting.org for printing help.
Fax
faxlanguage.txt This document explains the basics of the Brother FCL fax language.
faxprint.txt This is the documentation for the faxprint.pl script.
MFC Setup
There is no information about this subject at the moment. Please refer
to your Brother MFC manual for details on machine setup.
Source
faxprint.pl A perl script used to generate FCL code for some Brother MFC's
Logs
Informational log files for development.
faxcontrol.log
faxorg.log
faxparse.log
faxtest.log
printer.log
scanner.log
stardust.log
usbdevices log
usbdrvs log
Links
LinuxPrinting.org
Sane Webpage (Linux scanning)