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Brother Printers have a well deserved reputation. They work. You will probably need their proprietary drivers (which you can get from their website), but after that they just work.
I know they make a .deb available, but I think there's also a .rpm if you're repping Redhat land.
You probably won't need their proprietary drivers, it'll probably just autodetect and work with CUPS without even setting it up, like my Brother DCP-L2540DW does.
The monochrome and newer color Brother printers usually work fine without installing any drivers. If it supports IPP Everywhere, it will definitely work fine. It's the older color printers that usually need the proprietary driver for full support.
I've never had this particular model, but I've had pretty good success printing off Brother printers with the generic print drivers, I don't think I've used the proprietary downloads in a while.
Of note: I don't have occasion to do scans all that often, so I can't say if that works. Ditto the fax function, if that's important all I can say is you have my pity. But I've used the print function to good success on a couple different machines.
Still I'd recommend testing it before committing to permanent changes, if possible. Printers are mysterious and capricious.