OpenSuSE Leap 42.1 and Brother MFC 7320

I tried to get the scanner of a Brother MFC 7320 into work with openSuSE Leap 42.1. I could install the software with a script ‚linux-brprinter-installer-2.0.0-1‘ downloaded from the support page of the vendor. But there was an issue with the conection to the scanner via USB-Port. Although the model is not new the scanner was not listed in /etc/udev/rules.d/55-libsane.rules. I looked with scanimage -L out for the scanner and it was listed. Then I run lsusb and got the vendor-id and the device-id. I added a new entry to the libsane.rules file:

# Brother MFC-7320 ATTR(idVendor)==“04f9″, ATTR(idProduct)==“01eb“, MODE=“0664″, GROUP=“lp“, ENV(libsane_matched)=“yes“

Then I had to add the user to the group ‚lp‘ and after a restart the scanner works.

Xsane got the scanner and I could also use the automatic scanner utility to scan more than one page at once. There is a special mode for this in xsane for this (drop down menu on the top right). I had to count the pages of the multipage scan and put the number in the field on the top left. There is a pop up window where I had to create a multipage project. Then everything was done by xsane and its toolbox.