Thank you PeterPaul. Will try again after the next Bionic kernel upgrade. In
the meantime the brother MFC is plugged into my 16.04 PC and network connected.
The printer cost me $20 at a garage sale and only has USB.
PS - more pieces of the puzzle: the brother-udev-rule-type1 DEB package
mentione
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/507627-Suse-13-2-scanner-no-
longer-working-on-64-bit-
version/page2?s=ac5dc860f0f94d47d233f69afdbfc346 has similar debug
results to my prior comment. It was resolved by using a USB2 port
instead of a USB3 port. Maybe this is another piece of the puzzle as
Brother MFC-7420 installed under fresh install of 18.04 and connected
via USB. Brother2 drivers are installed. Have created links and local
udev rules and almost have scanner working.
scanimage -L >>> device `brother2:bus2;dev4' is a Brother MFC-7420 USB scanner
scanimage --test >>> scanimage: ope
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