Brother Printer Setup & Troubleshooting

Brother printers are all new multifunction printers that are best suitable for the businesses. Choose the inkjet printer series or the laser printer series to fulfill all your business needs. The Brother printers can print, scan, fax, copy and can print both in the color and black and white. So, the Brother printers are here to save your money and do all sorts of printing jobs with low cost.

You can produce smart crisp texts and wonderful graphics with your black and white laser printers. The color laser LED printers wired or wireless network ready printers. These color laser printers can print from mobile, at once you connect your mobile to the color laser Brother printer.

You have auto document feeder and auto duplexing is also possible with the laser LED multifunction printers. The smart array tm line-head inkjet printers are known for exceptional print quality at unimaginably low cost. These smart array tm line-head inkjet printers are made to suit the big business usage as it creates a great number of prints in a few minutes and make you enjoy your print jobs.

There are many connectivity options, like an Ethernet port and Wi-Fi. It also supports Apple AirPrint and Mopria Print Service, meaning you can print without installing drivers. It’s compatible with the Brother iPrint&Scan app, which lets you print the most common printable file types and check toner levels.

Brother printer offers you with the great experience in fulfilling all the printing jobs on time. The Brother printers are affordable, low-cost but offers you with the multifunction printers that no other brands can give.

Laser LED multifunction printers are built in with the Wi-Fi connection, which allows you to print wirelessly from anywhere in your work place or home. You can setup your black and white laser printer easily with the brother printers support and also can download and install the software and drivers easily for any of your windows or Mac OS.

Brother printer Windows setup

Unbox your Brother printer and remove the packing materials from your printer. Open the top cover of your printer and move all the eight drum locks to the directions specified. Take away each drum unit and toner cartridge assembly and remove the orange colored packing materials from each assembly. Also, remove the orange packing materials from the belt unit that is found underneath the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly. While installing the drum unit and toner

cartridge assembly, do not touch anywhere in the assembly as it may damage the assembly cause printing issues. Then, shake the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly to each sides to make the toner cartridges move freely. Now, install the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly in the holders as the colors specified in the printer and close the top cover. After installing the toner cartridges and drum unit, power off your printer.

In your windows PC, download and install all the necessary drivers and software available for your Brother printer model. To download the drivers and software, visit the official Brother printer website.

Connect your Brother printer to the network connection either with a wired connection or with the wireless network connection. Install the plain white sheets in the paper tray and adjust the paper guides. First power off your brother printer. If you are connecting the brother machine via wired network connection, connect the USB cable to the network hub and the brother machine.

Turn on the brother printer. click on the start windows icon and go to the control panel. Then, click on “Printers and Scanners” option and select add printer. The printer list is displayed. Click on brother printer model and test a print page to check if the printer is works properly. Insert USB cable to the Brother printer and to the Windows PC. Then, turn on the Brother printer and Switch on your windows 10 system.

Connect the computer to Wi-Fi and install windows version printer driver and other software. Always make sure that you install all the printer drivers and software for your Brother printer series. Next, click on the windows start icon and select devices and printers option. Click on add printer and your printer models will get displayed on the screen. Choose your brother printer model and wait for some time as brother printer is getting installed on windows 10. Once installed, verify by printing a document and see if the printer is installed properly.

Brother printer Mac setup

Unbox your Brother printer and remove the packing materials from your printer. Open the top cover of your printer and move all the eight drum locks to the directions specified. Take away

each drum unit and toner cartridge assembly and remove the orange colored packing materials from each assembly. Also, remove the orange packing materials from the belt unit that is found underneath the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly. While installing the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly, do not touch anywhere in the assembly as it may damage the assembly cause printing issues. Then, shake the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly to each sides to make the toner cartridges move freely. Now, install the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly in the holders as the colors specified in the printer and close the top cover.

After installing the toner cartridges and drum unit, power off your printer. Connect your Brother printer to the network connection either with a wired connection or with the wireless network connection. Install the plain white sheets in the paper tray and adjust the paper guides. First power off your Brother printer. If you are connecting the Brother machine via wired network connection, connect the USB cable to the network hub and the Brother machine.

Turn on the Brother printer. For more information on how to connect your Brother printer to the network connection, go to the manuals section of the Brother printer website. In your Mac PC, download and install all the necessary drivers and software available for your Brother printer model. After setting up to the network connection, go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences.

Click on the Print & Fax, Print & Scan or Printers and Scanners icon.

Click on + button. Click on Default. Choose the brother printer name from the Printer list. Click on Add button. The machine is added to the Print & Fax, Print & Scan or Printers & Scanners. Close the System Preferences. Your Brother printer is ready to print from your MAC OS.

Brother Printer Troubleshooting

It is a common thing that you have some printing issues due to the mishandling of printer and printer parts. Such common problems can be rectified by the following steps.

Print quality issues:

If your brother printer is not printing perfectly, then remove the toner cartridges and reinstall them after giving it a little shake. It is must that you shake each of the toner cartridge before installation.

Use the ink cartridges provided by the brother printers to get super quality . Only Brother Genuine ink, toner and accessories deliver consistent results that you can rely on. Using Brother Genuine supplies helps ensure peak performance from your Brother device.

Also make sure that you have not touched the ink nozzles, as it may damage the toner cartridge and you cannot print from that toner later.

One more common problem you do not check whether the toner ink is out of ink or full. Due to this you have color printing issues. So make sure that all the color toners are full.

Paper stuck issues:

 

Paper stuck issue happens with the Brother printer when you are not using the quality papers or you might have used the damaged paper.

Avoid using damaged paper. Always use quality plain white sheets and adjust the paper guides.

Clean the print head rollers and the ink nozzles to avoid the unnecessary printing issues. If it doesn’t clear away your printing issues, then please contact our brother support and helpline.

Network connectivity issues:

When your Brother printer is not connecting to a network, please make sure that your network is active.

If you have connected your Brother printer and your PC to a wireless network connection, check whether the wireless light is lit in your brother printer and in your computer. Also, your computer and brother printer should not exceed the maximum limit of wireless network connection( WLAN connection) so that it will get connected easily.

If you have connected the windows/Mac PC to a wired network, make sure that the USB cable is connected properly. Check whether the USB cable is not damaged. Because, damaged USB cable may spoil the print. Also, you can unplug the USB cable and reconnect it again to connect it properly.

If the problem still exists, then power off the printer and also the computer and redo the connection.