Connecting Brother HL-5370DW to Monterey OS

Hi,

The latest printer driver from Brother appears to be for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl5370dw_us&os=10060

macOS Catalina drivers have been known to work with some Brother printers even under a later operating system version, so you could perhaps carry out a test. As always, make sure that you have backup copies of all important files (documents, photos, etc) before doing anything,

If necessary, reset the printing system between tests.

Reset the printing system on your Mac to solve a problem – Apple Support (UK)

Add a printer to your printer list so you can use it on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

>Restarting does not help.

Did you also try to reset the printing system as described in Reset the printing system on your Mac to solve a problem – Apple Support (UK)?

>Wireless function went down some years ago. Not tried USB yet.

So, Ethernet has been the only interface used? Directly, or via one of the LAN ports of a Wi-Fi router? It may be worth testing USB as well after resetting the printing system (and with a fresh download of the macOS 10.15 Catalina printer driver 1.5.0 from Brother).

However, if nothing else works, I agree with John Galt, it is time for a new printer. Unfortunately, AirPrint print servers are rather expensive, but you may be able to find a second-hand device via an online auction site. Despite being for AirPrint, it may not be a bad idea to double-check whether such a print server has any extra requirements or compatibility limitations.

You can try and download the driver directly from the brother site

Or do I need a new printer?

...maybe.

Recent macOS versions incorporate native support only for AirPrint-enabled devices: About AirPrint - Apple Support, and the Brother HL-5370DW is not among them.

You might be able to use an AirPrint-enabled print server. A list of them appear near the end of that Apple Support document.

Definitely try installing the most recent driver Jan Hedlund suggested first. You have nothing to lose.

Apple made it loud and clear AirPrint was the way to go over a decade ago. Brother got on board faster than most, but I believe that particular model predated AirPrint by at least a couple years.

Sometimes AirPrint could be implemented in older devices with a firmware update, but I can find no indication Brother did that.

I agree it's unfortunate to relegate perfectly good devices to a landfill, but there is no incentive for Brother or anyone else to invest in something for which they are certain to get zero return.

Printing with El Capitan on my laptop still works fine!

In that case you can effectively use it as a print server: Share your printer on Mac - Apple Support

That is essentially how I continue to use my ImageWriter printers. They're about thirty years old.

I understand. It doesn't alter the answer to your question, which is yes. You need a new printer, or an AirPrint-enabled print server.

>Printing with El Capitan on my laptop still works fine!

You may actually have the foundation for a print server with capabilities similar to AirPrint.

A Mac application such as Printopia (https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/printopia/) needs a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later Mac (with working printer drivers). The idea is to connect a non-AirPrint printer (locally) to this Mac. The application would allow iPhones and iPads connected to a network to print. I wonder what would happen if another Mac (running macOS 12 Monterey) made an attempt to connect to this print server...

I was thinking the same with an app called HandyPrint http://www.netputing.com/

It was not clear to me whether you attempted to install the new driver, or you attempted to reinstall the old driver. You wrote that you reinstalled a driver, without further clarification.

I shall amend my previous answer "maybe" to "yes": you need a new printer, or an AirPrint-enabled print server.