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Draft: Brother MFP backend

Ralph Littlerequested to merge
brother_mfp_backend into master

This is the start of development of a new Brother MFP backend for SANE. This will aim to support Brother MFC and DCP machines through USB and network.

We start with a basic prototype:

  • Supports only grey/dithered_gray and text on MFC-4320DW. Colour is JPEG so I need to decode it.
  • Supports only USB.

Also it's a bit buggy on the read loop. It does work though.

Edit to add: I am preparing a document to keep track of the various details and variants of the protocol for these machines and I will update it as I get further information. At some point, I will check this into somewhere in the backend repo.

Edited by Ralph Little

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