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Brother HL 2030, and the scanner is a Mustek 1248UB, both chosen for their Linux compatibility at the time. And most likely both discontinued.
I remember buying one of those from 'Electronics Boutique' over 20 years ago. Before they nuked all the extra PC peripherals and renamed it 'EB Games'