Brother MFC Laser printer help

[PIGGLET]

I've recently bought a Brother MFC - L2800D multifunction printer for wireless printing duties with a year old windows 11 laptop.
After un boxing and going through the set up it worked fine. I left it unused for a couple of weeks and now the fecking thing won't connect or print. I've tried windows update, roll back, brother software uninstall - reinstall and still the bastard thing won't print. It will standalone copy fine.
Windows can see the printer but it won't print. I've tried it using windows drivers only and via the Brother app but nothing.

I don't have a cable as it wasn't supplied with one, so thats on my list of things to try when I get one but ultimately I need it wireless. Has anyone had any similar experience and if so any tips?

Thanks in advance.

 

[walkingpictures]

Just a thought,will it print from a mobile phone?

 

[Santa-2512]

I have similar with my OKI wired printer

I just power cycle it to reestabish an IP address for the printer with the PC, then it works fine until a few months later

and i dont print with the latest iteration of office or acrobat doing the driving , i use an old version of office and i use SumatraPDF, for all my PDF stuff

I put it down to a problen i call Software willy waving

each oem want to be the preferred choice for doing the printing, so trys to establish the top protocol / heirarchy in the printing queue, unfortunatly the printer and the program all do this at the same time

All you end up with is a software block / loop , and nothing prints

 

[chablis]

Is the printer 'on-line' ?

Are you using a usb cable to connect or wifi? If wifi restarting a printer will often mean a new ip address, often you need to set a static address.

Sometimes you need to 'find'i t again in print manager, show ensure you are on the same network, and do a search.

 

[sparkplug]

Static IP isn't a bad idea, however the first thing I would check is whether you can see the printer connected to the network when you look at your active device list on the router.

The MIL's printer loses the WiFi password if you cut power to it. Fine in 'standby' but unplug it and you have to reconnect it to the network which is a huge ball ache going through the alphabet and special characters using the printer's arrow keys...

If the printer is connected then assign it a private IP reservation and hopefully that will help

 

[PIGGLET]

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try checking if it's connected to the router and go from there. it appears to be connected when I look in windows devices but will dig a bit further.