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Brother DCP-J562DW printer and scanner works very well on Linux. Easy to use as well.


I just got a second-hand Brother DCP-J562DW printer and scanner. I plugged it into my Linux server and it works perfectly. I plugged an SD card into it and I can scan a document using the touch screen.

[ 5523.046425] usb 3-6: NEW high-speed USB device NUMBER 3 USING xhci_hcd
[ 5523.195336] usb 3-6: NEW USB device found, idVendor=04f9, idProduct=0380, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 5523.195341] usb 3-6: NEW USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 5523.195344] usb 3-6: Product: DCP-J562DW
[ 5523.195347] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: Brother
[ 5523.195350] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: E74937F7H722494
[ 5523.197990] usblp 3-6:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 IF 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x0380
[ 5523.198255] usb-storage 3-6:1.2: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 5523.206483] scsi host6: usb-storage 3-6:1.2
[ 5524.251568] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Brother  DCP-J562DW       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 5524.252147] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 TYPE 0
[ 5524.401564] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 6015.103940] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 16121856 512-byte logical blocks: (8.25 GB/7.69 GiB)
[ 6015.285487]  sdc: sdc1
[ 6050.838189] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 16121856 512-byte logical blocks: (8.25 GB/7.69 GiB)
[ 6050.979592]  sdc: sdc1
[ 6063.968215] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 16121856 512-byte logical blocks: (8.25 GB/7.69 GiB)
[ 6064.109632]  sdc: sdc1

Then I may also mount the SD card on the Linux server and use it easily to access the scanned files.

jason@jason-Lenovo-H50-55:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/windows/

It is not detected by Xsane, but this is OK, the Linux 5.4 kernel supports this hardware, maybe I need to find a solution somewhere. But it is a useful piece of hardware. I have not tested printing, but the scanning works just fine. And that is perfect.


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