High Sierra & Brother MFC 6490CW Printer

Finally the only solution was to physically connect my iMac with my 'Wifi' printer via a USB cable !!!

We tried a lot of options including inserting the printer IP address directly into the iMac printer field - no joy !

The essence of the problem is that while the Scanner function finds the iMac (printer to iMac comms working), the Print function from the iMac doesn't find the Printer (iMac to Printer comms not working). We couldn't find anyway around this except to use a physical cable (like in the old days).

The only other solution is to wait for Apple to recognise this as an issue and write a patch for it ... how long ???

Thanks for your help.

Hi & thank you for your reply.

Yes I did download the Drivers from the Brother website. I even deleted the printer and reloaded it ... but still the same issue with not being able to print. When I send a document to print I have had 2 bizarre errors:

a) Printing ERROR: / AppleBraile - Outline6Dot, and more recently b) Unable to write: Broken Pipe

BUT I can still scan to my iMac from the printer.

This is driving me crazy

Just tried this, as the only thing I hadn't done was restart the wifi ... unfortunately I get the same error message.

Looking for Printer / Connected to Printer / Unable to write: Broken Pipe

BUT I can Scan to my iMac ???

That's good info thank you. It seems this issue is not easy to fix.

Probably a combination of an 'old' printer, new Mac OS and a recently replaced wifi router (from 2 to 3 antennas.

Thanks for your help. I will try to get further this evening with a buddy who's a little more techie than me.

That I personally don't know how to do, but I could get it done ... could you tell me the logic behind this idea ?