Latest Brother Control Center and Catalina - Brother not supporting Apple OS

There is a distinction. The "Brother Control Center" appears to be 32-bit, but the printer drivers themselves work just fine.

You do not need to have this application installed in order to use their printers. I have two Brother printers and haven't had this application on any of my macs for years.

I scan directly with Preview:

File->Import from Brother DCP-197.,.

I have a Brother MFC-J6925DW. Brother has updated printer and scanning drivers for Catalina. I just finished downloading them without issue. Of course the Control Center is gone, but I found instructions on printing with Image Capture (found in Applications Folder) and Preview. Both of these open controls that let you select: resolution, paper size, orientation, Scan To:, Name, format, and image corrections. Preview has a lot of the capability also. I can't see that I would need anything beyond this. Here is the link to the article: http://appletechtalk.com/brother-controlcenter2-software-no-longer-compatible/

In SYSTEM PREFERENCES there is also the ability to scan. So, I hope this helps--there are multiple substitutes that are certainly better than having none.

You posted this in another thread I found when I was looking for answers, not complainers. Are you copying and pasting? There is scanning software supporting Catalina you can purchase—VueScan 9.7 that will let you do all you need with your 30 documents and long distance printer.

I just wanted to mention that i use a different workaround where I can still use the document feeder for scanning. On the printer I select scan / usb flash media. I know it is still not as handy as the control center, but it works ok for scanning a multi-page document.

I hope this is useful for someone.

I had also that issue with Brother ADS-2100e scanner. Even worst, this product isn't compatible with iPrint&Scan despite I bought it 2 years ago. Brother is washing his hands of it. By Using built in MacOS capture utility you'll lose lots of features. Finally I installed Virtual Machine running Windows 10 (do not blame on me) so I could use the scanner.

Regards.

Try using Brother ScannerApp in the App Store. Had functionality for an older printer/scanner that iprint&scan did not. Seems to be a good workaround for the scanning function.

Why would you think that software that supports 6600+ scanners, and kept current, should be free? I have owned VueScan Professional since 2012 when it was $79USD, and I have never paid an upgrade fee since.

It is Mojave that can support 32 and 64-bit applications and drivers — if the vendor has maintained their compatibility to the Mojave SDK. Catalina is strictly 64-bit and no 32-bit applications, or drivers will work. No printer vendor is going to support a printer indefinitely, and yes, they tend to favor Windows, even with features that are not implemented in their older Mac drivers. This is not unique to Brother.

Just use Preview to scan. It works fine with my Brother drvice. I haven’t the Brother Control Center software installed for years.

Hallo Luis, seems the problem has not been clearly explained to you.

I know of course the scanner can be used from your Mac. That is not the issue.

The issue is the following: Suppose you are in an office, and your printer is shared through the LAN with other users. The printer is located in a another room than the room of your desc. If you have, let us say, 25 documents to be scanned, you will have to go to the printer, insert your document in the scanner, return to your desc, have the document scanned to your Mac, return to the printer, insert your second document in the scanner, and again return to your Mac, and so again 25 times.

Normal would be (and was indeed!), that you could direct your 25 scans from the scanner to your Mac, staying at your scanner until all your documents are scanned. That was perfectly possible when I bought the printer 5 months ago. Brother knew for years that they should have adapted their software to meet Catalina. But they did'nt.

Laziness? Mac users are not important? Unable to adapt programs for Catalina? I don't know. But I would never recommend Brother anymore.

If their sewing machines are as good as their software, I would be afraid to bear pants sticked by a Brother machine...

This solution works better than control center for scanning. Using control center the doc must first go through brother control center and then to Preview. Going directly to Preview skips the step of using control center. It was faster too. Wish I would have known this sooner.

Brother has their Catalina page.

I found the Brother ScannerApp is helpful - works well with my MFC-J6910DW

Hey Maczek,

Osl2060 is wrong.

Using VueScan will not bring any relief: even with this program, you still should initiate scanning from your Mac, not from your printer/scanner!

This is not simply complaining as said Osl2060: it is warning other users that Brother does not comply with Mac standards, nothing more, nothing less.