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I have an older Brother printer and a 2 year old Macbook Air. The wireless connection works for about one day then I have to set up the wireless again on the printer. That's a big pain. I want to use a USB connection to the printer. I have a USB dongle, that has usb ports, an hdmi port, a usbc port etc.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3
Plug the printer in and see if the MacBook Air finds it in System Preferences->Printers & Scanners->+ (Add Printer)
Some enhanced features may not be available without proper drivers though. Regular Printing should likely work.
Plug the printer in and see if the MacBook Air finds it in System Preferences->Printers & Scanners->+ (Add Printer)
Some enhanced features may not be available without proper drivers though. Regular Printing should likely work.
I should also mention that Brother support tells me they will not support the MFC-J450DW model in conjunction with the MacBook Air running Monterey. So they are not going to update drivers for a printer that old.
I want to only print to USB connection with my Macbook Air
