Maybe it is possible to use some universal driver?
The only universal [printer] "driver" I know are Postscript, PCL and PDF. After a quick glance at your printer's specs it cannot do neither of them, so no.
This means any other "universal solution" was lowest communication possible, which means pure text, if it even works, means at best make your printer prints text only with its internal fonts, but no graphics (which includes other fonts.)
Printers are very special devices. But if there is a Linux driver chances are good there is a way you get it run under FreeBSD somehow. Since my printer can Postscript, I cannot help you here.
For the scanner you need to install and use x
sane, which is not only the most exemplary scansoftware I have ever experienced, but also supports a very wide range of devices. Which you may find out on its
homepage
But - if I may put it frankly, which may sound a bit harsh but includes decades of printer experience:
If I were you, with all my experience about printers, I would try not get too frantic about to get this thing running under FreeBSD.
This ...device is a) a multifunctional device, which personally I don't really take serious at all *cough*
but furthermore b) It's a low budget device (~170,-), which means it's a < 100 bucks printer...
I spare you all my rant about planned obsolescence, printers playing "being old, need to be replaced", or just behaving annoyingly because of being just a cheap device, and all this.
Just wanna say:
Think of how much hours it's worth to get it run under FreeBSD when it's going to be replaced soon anyway. (Yeah, yeah. Don't come back later, and make me say "I told you so"
)
10% of my grey hair are owed to printers (I actually once threw one of those crappy things out of the window of a fourth floor! Stone pavement. Granite. Fragments over thirty meters radius. Felt pretty good!
)
Face it: below ~400..500,- there is no thing could be named printer even remotely halfway professionally usable.
You either need a professional printer, or you better go to your nearest copy-shop, and let them do your printing on really professional machines for you. Believe it or not, facts are: This way you will safe money, safe time, safe your nerves, and protect the environment (wasted paper, toner cartridges empty too ofen,... electronic device debris on the pavement.
)
