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I got two Brother laser AIOs (MFC1910W) for my folks and myself.
All I had to do on Arch was install
brother-mfc-1910w
for printing,brscan4
for scanning andoh-brother
for (occasionally) upgrading the firmware, all over WiFi.I think more user-friendly distros come with these packages preinstalled, so it should just be a matter of opening the printer manager and waiting for it to show up.
Don't think they make the specific model anymore, but any Brother laser AIO should do.
When I used Ubuntu, I had to install the .debs off of Brother's site by myself. They provide .deb/.rpm packages.