Brother 420CN Fax Setup

This page will document the setup of the Brother 420CN on linux for scanning and sending faxes by an email-to-fax gateway (useful for VoIP offices). It is a work in progress.

Notes

• Faxaway. Provides an inexpensive email-to-fax gateway service. $1/month + approx $0.12/min outgoing faxes, free outgoing to toll-free numbers. Requires specific TIFF format sent in an email, with a registered return email address.
• tiffcp. A TIFF format conversion program.
• netpbm. A versatile image conversion program, containing a large collection of programs.
• Gentoo Howto. A howto for installing scan and print drivers for the 420 on gentoo.
• Brother Linux. Main page for linux support at Brother.
• SANE. A project for scanner access in linux. Links to many frontends, including scanadf which allows for mass scanning.
• CUPS for Linksys. Documentation on CUPS on how to administer ports and configuration on Linksys etherfast print servers.
• ML1450. Linuxprinting.org listing for Samsung ML-1450 laser.

ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10540&highlight=canon+i860 http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/howto/CANON-I850-CUPS http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232276

Fax driver installation instructions

1. aptitude install netpbm libtiff4 libtiff-tools imagemagick sane sane-utils

-- RyanEgeland - 27 Sep 2007