Brother MFC985-J985DW printer not scanning

Hi everyone,

I’m using Manjaro KDE and a Brother MFC985-J985DW printer

#inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 5.11.2-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 
        Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QR_GA503QR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
        Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GA503QR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: GA503QR.404 
        date: 02/08/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 91.1 Wh condition: 91.1/90.0 Wh (101%) model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery 
        status: Not charging 
        ID-2: hidpp_battery_0 charge: N/A condition: N/A model: Logitech G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse 
        status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 
        L2 cache: 4 MiB 
        flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 105453 
        Speed: 1286 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1286 2: 1621 3: 3672 
        4: 2816 5: 1915 6: 1915 7: 1916 8: 1681 9: 1315 10: 1913 11: 1512 12: 1606 13: 1357 14: 1915 15: 1905 
        16: 1818 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 460.56 
        bus ID: 01:00.0 
        Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0 
        Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 
        2: 1920x1080 
        OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
        Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: ASUSTeK 
        driver: N/A bus ID: 07:00.5 
        Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
        v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.6 
        Device-4: Microdia NexiGo HD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.2.4:12 
        Device-5: Kingston HyperX Cloud Flight S type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
        bus ID: 1-1.3.3:13 
        Device-6: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
        bus ID: 1-1.3.4:14 
        Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.2-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 
        v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
        IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
        Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
        IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
        IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
        IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-4:5 
        Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 76.15 GiB (4.0%) 
        ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB temp: 54.9 C 
        ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM001TD3JX013N size: 953.87 GiB temp: 51.9 C 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 899.02 GiB used: 76.13 GiB (8.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
        ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 25.5 MiB (8.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A 
        Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2400 
        GPU: device: nvidia screen: :0.0 temp: 56 C device: amdgpu temp: 63.0 C 
Info:      Processes: 446 Uptime: 3m Memory: 38.68 GiB used: 3.75 GiB (9.7%) Init: systemd Compilers: 
        gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1292 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 inxi: 3.3.01 

I have brother-mfc-j985dw and brscan4 installed. In simple-scan I’m getting the error message “Unable to start scan” and in skanlite I’m getting the error message “Invalid argument”. Does anyone know how I could go about fixing this?

Fixed with sudo brsaneconfig4 -a name=MFC-J985DW imodel=MFC-J985DW ip=192.168.1.155

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