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How To Connect Brother Printer To Wifi Network?
Posted: May 12, 2020
In the growing tech era, nobody wants to keep their printer connected through the long cable.
Everyone believes in connecting the printer to the wifi using the wireless feature, this is a quite easy feature, and it keeps your devices connected to the wifi.
Also, you don’t have to attach every device to the printer one by one to make a print. Your printer will be shared in the local network so that you can print through any machine available in the local network.
Connect your printer to the wireless network using a password-
If you have bought a new brother printer and now want to attach this printer to the wireless network. You can use this blog to do so,
- Let’s power on your brother printer wifi printer and wait to get the solid blue power light on your printer.
- Hit the menu key on your printer now and move to the network, once you reach to the system, press ok,
- Scroll up to reach the wifi setup, or we call it wlan setup and press ok.
- Choose your network name, or we call it wifi name from the list and hit the ok or next button.
- Fill in the network passphrase and press the ok key.
Finally, your brother printer joins the network, in case if you face any difficulty, you can visit why is brother printer not connecting to wifi?
Use WPS method to join the network-
If you don’t remember your wifi passphrase or having difficulty in using the passphrase, there is an easy way to join the wireless network without entering the network key.
Is this method known as the WPS method? Here are the steps to join the network on your printer using the WPS button.
- Power on your printer and wifi router.
- Press the wireless button on your printer, and wait until you see a solid light.
If your printer will find the router and connect itself to the wifi, you will see the solid green or blue wifi indicator light. But if it is showing other views, it means it didn’t connect, so you have to follow the same procedure again.
These are the two common methods to connect a printer to the wifi, apart from this, you can also connect your printer to the wifi network using the printer driver.
In this method, you have to attach your printer to the computer using USB cable and then run the printer driver setup.
Once you complete the necessary installation process, you will reach to the network setup; here you need to select wireless or network printer and click on use computer settings to connect the printer to the network.
Your computer will automatically transfer the network details into the printer, and it will join the wifi network.
Once you connect your brother printer to the wifi network, you may go ahead and enjoy using print services using gadgets like- computer, mobile phone, etc.
In case if you are facing any problem with your wireless printer, you can go ahead and connect your devices to the wifi.
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