brother wireless printer stopped working

mercysmith wrote:
I downloaded the latest CUPS driver from Brother. I have connected to the printed both through bonjour and by manually entering its IP address. I am able to browse to the printers admin page using safari and the IP address - I don't see any irregular network issues. I'm using OSX 10.5.8

Does that mean in Print & Fax, you set up a new printer and both Bonjour and IP automatically recognized the correct print driver?

If you have not already done so, try Repair Disk Permissions using Disk Utility.

If the problem persists, consider Resetting the Print System.

FYI: see the thread by macartwright

HTH

Have you tried power cycling all the equipment? That is, shutting down the computer, printer, router, dsl or cable modem (includes unplugging the modem). Wait 30-60 seconds. Then power on each in the reverse order waiting for each to be fully on (e.g., lights on modem are steady) before turning on the next device.

If the problem persists, consider booting up your computer with the original Install disc by holding down the "c" key. Choose a language. Select Disk Utility from the menu options. In Disk Utility, on the left pane, click on your hard disk. On the right pane, click on the First Aid tab and below, click on Repair Disk. Hopefully, there won't be anything, but maybe there is a bit or byte out of order and this will find it and repair it.

If the problem still persists, consider trying Fixamac's Print Therapy. Free to try.

One other thought, when you initially re-installed the print driver, did you delete the existing driver and all the Brother related files beforehand?

Good Luck.

Thanks for the star. 😉

Did you find a solution? I just started having this after replacing my macbook pro 15" hard drive and had to re-setup everything. I can connect, print a test page with the utility, scan from the brother printer and it comes up in preview or email, whichever I select. But no printing from anything, just the exact message you had. I've installed and re-installed every driver and update. I've plugged/unplugged, restarted, reconnected several times everything I know, and no success. Frustrating ...

NEVER MIND!!!! Happily I can report that rolling back the driver to the 10.4 version worked just fine and the printer hums along like normal. Yaaayyyy!!!!