Brother printer not printing

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Why Brother Printer can’t print.              

Brother printer is the most advance printing machine which offers you various handy and smart options by which you can easily manage you commercial and non-commercial tasks. Its smart functionalities and sleek design makes it more innovative and operational. However, it’s a machine and it also faces some print issues while printing black and white papers. To troubleshoot such issue first we need to analyze its causes.

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Main reasons of “Brother Printer not printing”

  • The one of the main cause behind this issue is the present of faulty connections.
  • There might be strong chances of the corrupted and incompatible drivers.
  • The current software may be outdated.
  • There might some problems with the black cartridge of the printer, such as low –quality cartridge and dry ink, could be a cause of this.
  • Ink cartridges are not installed correctly or the print head may get jammed.

Ways to troubleshoot the issue

For windows:

1. First go to start click, settings and then select printers or printers and other hardware.

2. Look for a checkmark to see if printer is set as the default printer. If there is no checkmark, then right click on device and choose set as default printer.

3. The next step is to verify the printing status and also make sure that the print queue is also empty. If printing status is offline, right click on the printer icon and choose the option Use printer online.

4. If printing status has been paused then right click on the icon of device and untick Pause printing.

5. Attempt a test print. If the print fails, then move on to the next step.

 6. Right click on the printer driver icon to go to Properties.

7. Then go to the Ports tab.

8. A rundown of accessible ports will be visible. Now from the listed option, choose the Add port.

9. Select Standard TCP/IP and then click on new port.

10. The Standard TCP/IP printer port will pop up. Click on next to continue.

11. Type the IP address of your brother printer in the space provided for printer name or IP address and then exit.

How to fix printer’s power source

  • When the printer has sufficient power, the LED lights are lit.
  • A steady LED light on the power button indicates that the printer is on.
  • When the error lights are lit or blinking. It indicates printer error.
  • Now check and confirm the icon which shows an error.
  • If no lights are on despite being plugged, check on your power outlet or reattach the power cord. You can try to reconnect the power cord.

Brother printer not printing on windows 7, 8 and10

  1. First ensure and check that the printed is ON no error is pop-up on the screen.
  2. Now check the connectivity between the router and access point.
  3. After that you need to download the network connection repair tool.
  4. Once done, run the downloaded “network connection repair tool”.
  5. Once done, now you need to confirm the connectivity  between the brother machine and computer
  6. Verify that the printer is set as default, that the status is ready, and the print queue is empty.
  7. Check the driver port settings
  8. Uninstall and reinstall

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