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Brother Industries, Ltd manufactures award-winning best printers. It offers extraordinary features and performance in many printers, including all-in-one solutions, color inkjet, laser, monochrome laser, and color laser multi-function printers. Brother offers fast, reliable, and best-quality printers which are easy to use and affordable. One of the best features of Brother printers is that they are mostly plugged and played, and their drivers get installed automatically by the OS. So no matter where you want to use it, home, home office, network, domain or work-groups, black & white or color printing Brother printers can be your best friend. This post focuses on different issues while downloading and installing Brother printer drivers on Mac.

Mac Driver for Brother Printer

The Brother’s Printer driver download page only has drivers for MacOS X 10.2-10.10. If you need to download the driver for MacOS version 10.11 and above, consider going to the Apple software download page. And that doesn’t always help you as the driver is not full-featured. If you cannot follow some steps or could not find the option on your Mac, contact us through chat, Skype, or Phone number. Here is the list of Brother Printer’s Models whose drivers are available through Apple Software download and are not available on Brother’s drivers download page. Apple provides the most appropriate driver for them. So if you also have one printer listed in the list, you should not worry, as we should download the driver automatically. If it doesn’t get installed automatically, follow the steps mentioned below.

Driver Version: 4.1.1

File Size: 261.1 MB

System Requirements (Compatible With): OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, OS X Mavericks 10.9, OS X Yosemite 10.10, OS X El Capitan 10.11, macOS Sierra 10.12

Language Available: 日本語,Français,Deutsch,English, Nederlands,Italiano,Español, Polski,Português,Suomi,Dansk,한국어,Norsk Bokmål,繁體中文,Pусский,Português (Brasil),简体中文,Svensk

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I loved how Brothers and other make of Printers would install automatically on Mac after plugging it in. But Apple stripped out the drivers to save precious hard drive space and enable automatic download upon detection, but that does not always work, especially when there is a MacOS file or permissions errors. After reading this article, you can easily find and install the Brother Printer drivers Mac. If you are having an issue with the Epson printer and need the driver for Epson ten, follow the article Download and Install Epson Printer driver for Mac.

How to Install Brother Printer Drivers Mac:

After the driver ver 4.1.1 from Apple, which one above, it should install the driver automatically after connecting the Printer to your Mac. Steps may vary depending on the way you are trying to install it.

Installing Brother Printer Drivers Mac With USB Connection

If you want to connect and use your Printer through a USB connection.

1. Connect the USB cable to Mac.
2. Click Apple Logo > Go To System Preferences.
3. Select Printers & Scanners or Print & Fax or Print & Scan whichever is available for your Mac model.

   

4. Click on the + button.

   

5. I show a list of printers in default tab. Choose the Printer Model you want to install.
6. Now make sure the Print Using option at the bottom shows the correct machine. If the driver for your printer model is not available, it will start downloading the driver automatically and once I installed the driver you should be able to select the driver or your Printer name in the print using selection list.

   

7. Once you have selected the right machine name > Click Add button and quit system preference.

Important Note:

The older model used to come with driver installation CD/DVD. Insert the CD/DVD in the drive and look for the printer name or install the icon on the desktop—double click to open and run the installer.Please follow the on-screen instructions and connect the printer when asked. If you have lost the CD/DVD drive, don’t worry; we can help you find it on Brother’s website. Additionally, we have a driver software repository you can access.

Installing Brother Printer Drivers for Mac With Wireless Connection

Different Brother printer model has other ways to connect to Wireless network. Some just have a wireless or WPS button that activates the wireless functionality after pressing the button. But some models may ask you  the Wireless network setting from your router or Modem. It would help if you had a Wireless network name(SSID), Wireless password, Password, or Network key.

If your Printer has a Menu button on the Display Panel.

1. Press the Menu ->Setup -> Settings button.

   

2. Go to Network Settings.

   

3. Select Wireless or Wi-Fi Setup.
4. Choose Wireless Setup Wizard / Wi-Fi Protected Setup.

   

5. If you Select the Wireless Setup Wizard, then Press OK to continue.
6. Select the Wireless Network name (SSID) from the list.
7. Type the Wi-Fi Key / Network Password when asked.
8. I should connect Press Ok and the Printer to the Wi-Fi in a moment.
9. Once connected then Go to System preferences and follow the steps mentioned in previous method
10. If you selected the option WiFi Protected Setup or WPS in step 4, then Press OK, and the Printer will start looking for an available WPS router.
11. Go to your router or modem and Press the WPS button within 2 minutes , WPS button is mostly located at the back of router.
12. The printer will show you connection successful message and prompt you to print a network configuration page.
13. Once connected, follow the same steps as mentioned in the previous Method to install the Printer.
14. Hopefully, you will be able to fix issue with brother printer drivers Mac by now.

If Printer doesn’t have a menu or Setup or Settings button on the Display Panel.

1. Deactivate the Wireless Network Ports on your printer by pressing the Wi-Fi button seven times, then press and hold the Wi-Fi button on your computer for two seconds.
2. Go to your Wireless access point / router and press WPS or AOSS button for 2 second and let go off
3. We should connect your Printer to the router and you can install the driver from system preferences as mentioned in previous method.

In case your router and Printer do not have any WPS or AOSS, the network setup wizard option

1. Download the Printer Driver from Brother’s Driver download page or insert the driver CD/DVD.

   

2. Double click to open the Brother icon from your desktop screen.
3. Choose Wireless Network Connection and click Next.
4. It will ask if you have a USB cable, select No, you don’t and click Next.
5. Click checked and confirmed message and hit Next.
6. We connect the network settings your computer with (SSID and WiFi Password) will appear on the screen. Confirm the settings by clicking Yes and Click Next.
7. When it asks to enable the Wireless feature on the Machine > Press and hold the WiFi button on the printer, until the light blinks. After a few seconds Wifi button will lit solid which means it is connected successfully.
8. Now go back to System preferences on your Mac and open the Printers & Scanners and follow the same steps as mentioned in previous Method to install and setup Brother Printer.
9. You have successfully setup Brother Printer drivers Mac and you can use it to Print.

Troubleshooting Brother Printer Driver Mac issue.

If you have tried the above mentioned steps if your Brother printer is still not setup try the following steps

Repair Disk Permissions on Mac:

Repairing Disk permissions on your Mac fixes hundreds of problems.

1. Go to /Application/Utilities and Open Disk Utility.
2. Select the Volume from the list on the left which is Macintosh HD on most Mac.
3. Click on first Aid from the Top and click OK to confirm.
4. Let disk utility has finished checking the Volume,
5. Quit the disk utility and move on to the next step.

Reset Printing System.

1. Click Apple Menu and Select System Preferences.
2. Choose Printers & Scanners.
3. Control-click or right-click anywhere in the Printers box in the left pane and choose “Reset printing system…”
4. Click OK to confirm.
5. Now go to /Library/Printers/ folder and delete the folder named Brother.
6. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete all the preferences files for brother printer which begins with name com.brother.print*
7. Restart your Mac and try to install and setup the Brother Printer as a fresh as mentioned in above methods.
8. I am sure by now you could fix issue with brother printer drivers Mac.

Brother Software Download Link : http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/os/macintosh.html

As per Apple the list of Brother Printer Model which are installed automatically in Mac.

Brother Printer Model

Brother Printer Model for Which Drivers are available from Apple. Which are supposed to get downloaded and installed on its own.