If the printer status is Offline
Right-click the icon for your Brother machine > See what's printing > Printer > Use Printer Offline (remove the checkmark). If Use Printer Offline is greyed out, click Open As Administrator. Enter your administrator password, and then click Yes
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I had the same problem and call customer service (877-276-8437). Customer service will walk you through the process. You will have to configure you I.P. address along with other steps.
One thing I can tell you is to make sure under the Menu option...Network....WLAN...TCP/IP...BOOT Method....make sure it states STATIC.
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Had same issue and here is what worked for me.
1. Go to Printers and right click on Brother printer and choose 'Properties'
2. Click the 'Ports' tab and with proper Brother printer port highlighted click 'Configure Port'
3. In second field titled "Printer Name or IP Address" enter the IP address of printer*
4. Click 'OK' as need to exit out.
I'm using XP so this may be slightly different depeneding on your flavor of Windows. The main thing is to name the port with the IP address and not rely on name resolution.
Hope this works for you too!
* If you don't know your printer's IP address then you can go to your printer and under the 'Reports' section print-out the Network Configuration report to find IP address.
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The solution, and it took me a long time to find the simple solution, is to right click on your printer, click properties, click the ports tab and click on your Brother printer and click on configure port (or you can delete the existing one and then add another one). What you want to do is update the IP Address. The problem is that the printer does not have a static IP address, it is dynamic. If you want to confirm that, go to your printer and press the reports button and print out the network configuration report. Your IP address will show on that. It's really the last digit in the IP address that changes. This will absolutely solve your problem. Good Luck!
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Hello there:
for the document you want to print click on print and your printer should show up now just click on the printer and look down where it says use printer offline and click on it again and than it will say use printer online and just print from there ok please dont forget to rate this solution for me
best regards mike
SOURCE: Offline wireless printer
Please make sure that printer is turn on, before doing ensure you do power cycle of printer.
Add printer on Standard TCP/IP port.
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