Install Brother’s brscan2

The DCP750CW is supported by Brother’s brscan2 driver. Go to Brother’s Scanner driver page, and find the Brother’s brscan2 driver.

Install the package (this time you’re lucky, you have the amd64 version):

dpkg -i brscan2-VERSION.amd64.deb

Then you have to add your scanner to the brscan tool, you can follow the Instructions or follow the next steps:

brsaneconfig2 -a name=DCP750CW model=DCP-750CW ip=192.168.0.5

you can also specify the network name instead of the IP :

brsaneconfig2 -a name=DCP750CW model=DCP-750CW nodename=printer.your.domain.name

if everything worked fine, you should have the following result :

host:/somewhere# brsaneconfig2 -q | tail -n 1
 0 DCP750CW            "DCP-750CW"         I:192.168.0.5

now, start xsane, it should see it directly (if you have multiple scanners, xsane will ask you to choose the one you want at startup.

Install Brother’s scankey

Scankey requires some additionnal softwares :

apt-get install gimp sane-utils

Then go to Go to Brother’s Scanner driver page, and find the Brother scankey amd64 debian package

Install it :

dpkg -i brscan-skey-VERSION.amd64.deb

Then you can follow the instructions, basically, you have to run brscan-skey directly on your session to be registered in the scanner “scan to” menu. This allow a faster scan. (take care that all files go to ~/brscan directory).

Conclusions

Brother DCP750CW is completely supported under Linux, and I am glad to say that it is one of the best support I’ve seen under Linux. The scankey tool is even included in their software suite. I don’t know about other products, but they seem pretty well supported, good job Brother, and thanks.