HL-2270DW printer: Wireless setup problem

I recently bought a Brother HL-2270DW laser printer. After downloading the drivers I am able to print just fine via USB. The trouble is, I would much rather connect to this printer wirelessly. The manual says to utilize the CD that came with the printer to enter the appropriate settings... unfortunately, the CD says the operating system is too new and to refer to Brother's website. After doing this and downloading their BRAdmin Light (a little app designed to adjust basic printer setting), I found that BRAdmin Light will not recognize any devices, even though I am connected via USB and can even print.

So the basic issue is, how can I set up this printer for wireless operation given what I have mentioned above?

Much thanks!

Alex

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 20, 2012 10:02 AM

31 replies

Nov 24, 2015 7:12 AM in response to alex_blondeau

Spent over two hours trying to get my Brother hooked to the network. <grrr> Found your link after 1.5 hours, then 1/2 hour more and numerous pages of printing, and the many steps, but it worked. Yay! Thanks! E

Apr 11, 2016 4:57 AM in response to alex_blondeau

I have a Brother MFC-J835DW. For no reason, the printer was no longer communicating with my computer. I called Cablevision as I thought it was a WIFI issue. It was not. However, Cablevision did help me bypass the problem by walking me through how to input my router info into my printer. But the printer would not scan because it still said connection failed, so I still had the problem. I called Brother's support telephone line and they initially did not solve the situation. I called Brother again and this time I got someone that knew how to solve the problem. Go to Support.Brothers.com find the download for Control Center 4 Update. That will fix the problem.

Source(s):

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090720231029AAohA8l

sig

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Aug 20, 2012 11:19 AM in response to alex_blondeau

Contact Brother directly for support.

Feb 3, 2013 12:17 PM in response to alex_blondeau

Thank you very much for this link!

I was going mad searching for a solution.

This solutions also woks for HL-5280DW.

Mar 28, 2013 7:32 PM in response to DanielArg

Hi Daniel,

Me again...BTW..in the first screen shot above, my network name is Purple. :-)

Mar 29, 2013 4:56 AM in response to rickgoldsmith

Hi Rick,

Thank you very much for your messages. I'll work on this today, and I'll let you know about the results.

Regards, Daniel

Apr 12, 2013 2:56 PM in response to alex_blondeau

This is from Tech support and it worked!

http://host220.brother.com:8080/sap/bc/bsp/sap/zsdb/display.htm?SOLUTION=2000000 28989

ADLAV

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Aug 12, 2013 7:55 PM in response to alex_blondeau

Thank you soooo much Alex. This totally worked!

Nov 19, 2013 12:47 PM in response to alex_blondeau

This worked for me, too! Thanks!

thebeard

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Mar 15, 2014 1:44 PM in response to Ihavetotryharder

So I have completed the steps, right down to "finish". Once I am done and try to print, it says my printer is "offline". Not really sure where to go from here.

ehj2012

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Jun 15, 2014 10:48 AM in response to thunderbubble

Thanks for posting this. Although the set-up instructions posted upthread worked previously, they didn't work with my new router. Downloading the CUPS driver worked beautifully. Much obliged.

Aug 1, 2014 5:35 PM in response to Ihavetotryharder

Thank you, this was so helpful!

Mar 27, 2015 7:54 PM in response to alex_blondeau

Also worked today for my HL-2270DW.

Sep 29, 2015 6:24 PM in response to SwedeP

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!

I have been messing around with this for a couple of days

It's fixed!

SwedeP

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Sep 29, 2015 6:46 PM in response to abqgram

HI abgram:

No, I am not a youngster. Just been programming since I was a kid 50 years ago and on Macs from the beginning. Glad to help.

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