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I'm moving to a new computer and I freshly installed a Brother package of drivers and utilities for my printer/mfp.

Somehow there is already my printer and a copy of it, both functional, as I was able to print the test page on both. From those test pages I assume that there are two types of drivers installed now - Brother DCP-J715W Printer and Brother IJ Leg Type2 Class Driver.

Do I need to keep both copies and both driver types to print and use scanner?

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    Probably not, and it might be safe to remove the older legacy driver... however, they probably take up very little room, and it would do no harm to leave them.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Aug 17, 2018 at 20:15
  • IMHO, no harm to uninstall.. just keep the one with the latest version of driver.
    – p._phidot_
    Commented Aug 17, 2018 at 21:32

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One is automatically installed by the system, and the other is installed by the driver of the printer. Usually we can keep a printer.

We can check if the printer ports of the both printer copies are the same in printer properties.

If their printer ports are the same, we keep Brother DCP-J715W Printer and delete the other one.

If their printer ports are different, we keep the printer that works well by our testing(It is best to keep Brother DCP-J715W Printer).

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