Is there a plan to release drivers for Brother Scanner, e.g. DCP-7080D?

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Brother laser printer driver

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Is there a plan to release drivers for Brother Scanner, e.g. DCP-7080D? #188

Open PullGuy opened 1 year ago

PullGuy commented 1 year ago

I own a Brother DCP-7080D printer and scanner device. It functions perfectly as a printer when using the brlaser drivers. Unfortunately, I encountered compatibility issues with the scanner functionality on my Raspberry Pi for the driver I downloaded from the Brother website is not compatible with the arm64 architecture of the Raspberry Pi. So, is there a plan to release drivers for it?

QORTEC commented 1 year ago

Regarding scanner drivers for the DCP-7080D, I would say it's highly unlikely.

Issues:

The author of the brlaser doesn’t seam to have much time for the project at the moment.
Scanner and printer drivers are fundamentally different so it would be a totally different code base, and skill set needed to create said driver