Hi Tim and others,
Success, My sighted helper was a bit more agreeable and took her time.
We googled the Brother printer and setting up wifi. They don’t seem to make
this very easy. She found a source that talked her through the layers on the
touch screen and she was finally able to enter the wifi password.
After that all devices found the printer and printed easily.
I didn’t need to really do anything else.
I did update my software on my Mac but I don’t think that had anything to do
with it. I also downloaded the brother printer app on my phone. It may be
useful to me but I don’t think it was needed to make the printer available as
other devices found it without the app.
I sure wish these devices had talking menus or at lease an app or computer
access that let us do all the functions from an accessible place.
Still, the tips here got me headed in the right direction and I was able to
quickly move past my attempt and into the next place to try.
I’m very appreciative of the info here.
And, a bonus is I should be able to use the printer from my other Mac.
Thanks folks.
Eric Caron
> On Apr 10, 2020, at 4:50 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Is your printer AirPrint capable? If no, then you won't be able to see it
> with your iOS/iPadOS devices. The sharing method I outlined should work fine
> for other Macs, but will not make a non-AirPrint ready printer sharable to
> iOS/iPadOS.
>
> Later...
>
>
> Tim Kilburn
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> On Apr 10, 2020, at 08:17, Brad Snyder <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> I have a Brother HL2700DW Multi-function Printer/Scanner, and my experiences
> are pretty much the same as Janina’s.
> My wife is sighted, so we were able to use the touchpad to connect the
> printer wirelessly to our network. I am able to access the printer from all
> computers, (both Mac and Windows) on the network. I can also print from my
> iPhone and iPad.
> My wife handles the scanning wirelessly from her iMac using the Brother
> iPrint and Scan application, and says she has no problem saving a scanned
> file on her computer.
> I recently upgraded my wife’s iMac to Catalina, and installed the 64-bit
> version of the Brother iPrint and Scan software on her Mac, and my wife
> commented that she is now able to scan in color, which was not the case with
> the earlier version.
>
> - Brad -
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2020, at 04:07, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Eric:
>
> Especially if you have a wired ethernet port on your Brother printer,
> you can happily share it across all your networked devices. This is
> exactly what I do with mine, currently an HL2395DW.
>
> Use Safari to access the relevant resources on support.brother.com
> <http://support.brother.com/>. You
> will likely need to install drivers that support your specific model.
>
> I also use the mac address of my printer's ethernet port to dynamically
> assign it the same IP address on every boot which allows me to add the
> machine a globally accessible domain name.
>
> Note that this also supports wifi access as you probably are providing
> wifi via your router.
>
> I have found things work pretty much as expected. The exception for me
> is the scan function as mine is a multi-function device. I can scan from
> my Mac, but I can't seem to save the results of my scan into a file.
> That's annoying, but I get around it by using the corresponding Brother
> application on my Android phone, Iprint and Scan, where scanning and
> saving works as expected.
>
> Best,
>
> Janina
>
> Eric Caron writes:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> My brother laser printer could be networked through my router but I
>> would need to access the non accessible touch pad. My sighted partner gets
>> very frustrated with technical things so I can’t rely on a patient helper to
>> figure it out.
>>
>> I currently have the printer connected through usb to my Mac. That is
>> fine but I’d like to be able to have other devices such as phones, iPads,
>> and another Mac be able to print from the printer.
>>
>> Is there a way to have the printer show up for these devices by sharing it
>> somehow through my Mac?
>>
>> Any tips appreciated.
>>
>> Eric Caron
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