I'm pretty happy for William Lester because he at least managed to connect his printer to Windows 11. I have been unable to get it to accept the manufacturer's drivers and feel I am being forced into buying another printer. This is my first week at using
Windows 11 on a brand new laptop and I hate it with a vengence. I find it really hard to navigate and all it seems interested in doing is selling you stuff you don't want. All I want to do is print off a letter! Back to pen and paper for me I think! Karen Carlin
I have a brother printer and I hooked it to Windows 11. Now it takes about 5 minutes to print one page.
Windows 11 will not let printer driver for Brother MFC-J1010DW load
Brother Printer driver issue installing on windows 11,
Win 11 ver. 24H2 causing Brother scanning driver install to fail. How to fix?
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I'm pretty happy for William Lester because he at least managed to connect his printer to Windows 11. I have been unable to get it to accept the manufacturer's drivers and feel I am being forced into buying another printer. This is my first week at using
Windows 11 on a brand new laptop and I hate it with a vengence. I find it really hard to navigate and all it seems interested in doing is selling you stuff you don't want. All I want to do is print off a letter! Back to pen and paper for me I think! Karen Carlin
Hello, william lester
Welcome to the Microsoft Community.
Hello, thank you for your feedback on this, it seems that your printer prints slowly when connected to Windows 11.
In order to better help you, can you ask how you are connected to the printer, is it connected through the network ip connection or cable direct connection, you can feedback.
I will first provide you with some basic steps to make some improvements:
- Update printer drivers: Make sure you have the latest Brother printer drivers. You can download it from the Brother support website.
- Check the printer Settings:
Open printer and scanner Settings for Windows 11.
Select your Brother printer and click Print Preferences.
Lower the print quality setting to normal or draft instead of high.
Disable any advanced features such as color enhancement (True2Life).
- Restart the print daemon service:
Press Windows + R, type services.msc, and then press Enter.
Locate the Print Spooler, right-click and select Restart.
- Clear the print queue:
Open the Run dialog (Windows + R), type spool, and press Enter.
Go to the PRINTERS folder and delete all files.
- Check the connection:
If you are using a USB connection, make sure the cable is directly connected and not too long.
- For network printers, try using a wired Ethernet connection instead of Wi-Fi for faster speeds.
- Run the printer troubleshooter:
Go to Settings > System > Troubleshooting > Other Troubleshooting.
Run the printer troubleshooter to detect and fix problems.
You can try it out by referring to the steps above, and after that, give some feedback and I will further support you.
Best regards
Bobhe | Microsoft Community Support Specialist
Under "Printers & Scanners" states driver is unavailable, after downloading and installing the driver from the Brother website Doesn't state anything about only S mode states the following:
Windows 11 Home
23H2
OS Build: 22631.3672
Hello, this is Emily.
Did you download the driver from Brother's website? Do you mind telling me what happened when you tried to install it? I would like to learn about any error message or behavior if you can describe it.
In addition, can you type winver in the search on the taskbar and press enter, when it is launched, does it say anything about S mode?
I bought a new laptop (Microsoft surface 7) that runs Windows 11. I have a brother MFC-L3780CDW. I am trying to install the driver for the printer, and it keeps having an installation issue. I got the driver from the brother support website, the full software package and it won’t install. Any tips?
I think the other device is using Air Print (not really driverless) and so far as I know Windows does not have Air Print.
I installed the proper drivers on my Windows (10 and 11) computers and print works. I have Air Print on my iPhone and print works. No need to worry about IP address - the correct drivers do that.
You can also (for the majority of printers) just use the Windows built in print driver facility. Just use Settings, Printers, Add a Printer. This works fine for most print jobs.
With Windows 11 and its new Universal Print Driver, it can print to the cloud, and also on Universal Print ready printers. This may work, but it is not true driverless printing. That does not exist so far as I know.
For the HL-L2350DW I just needed to turn on wireless on my PC workstation which was hardwired and the IPP drivers are working on my windows PC. Did not need to install a driver on my laptop (windows 11) and surface (windows 10) and when I do a test page it will say it is using the "Microsoft IPP Class Driver" for systems where the Brother Drivers were not installed. Unfortunately just having a wired connection to the network is not good enough, needs to be wireless on the PC itself for this printer to work. Odd but I can live with this and happy to see "driverless" printing work on windows.
Note: wireless driverless printing does not appear to work smoothly on my older MFC-L2740DW.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/what-s-new-in-windows-11-for-universal-print/ba-p/2499026
I own a Brother MFC-L2740DW printer/scanner and it has been working great for years with both Windows 10 and Linux. I recently purchased a new PC with Windows 11 (24H2) and have been trying to install the full package of Brother printer and scanner drivers. I have the exact same problem as the OP, the printer driver installs successfully, but the scanner driver fails. You don't find out though that the scanner driver failed to install until you try to scan from the Control Center 4 application. You will see a pop-up with error code CC4-202-00000008. There is a support article for this code on the Brother site, but the solutions provided do not work - they must be for an earlier issue.
Microsoft, a fix for this would be much appreciated.
Hi NCI,
I'm Sumit, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.
Apologies for any inconvenience you are experiencing. I am happy to help you today.
Yes, there are a lot of reports over Reddit and Commjunity for this exact issue. The problem is not related to Brother scanner, it affects many printer brands.
Via https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/1g9f...
OK, I think I got a temporary solution (sort of). For some reason I am now unable to scan even with the "Scan" button from the printer/scanner itself, however last night there was a Windows update - not sure if it caused it. The control center is not fixed yet, either... However when I was looking through the settings, I found a link pointing me to "Windows scan" app from the MS App store - installed it to test it, and it was able to detect the scanner, and scan remotely, so you might give it a try until there is a fix (if there is one.....)
https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDN...
Ultimately Microsoft has to provide with the fix and we have no ETA I am afraid.
Hope that helps, and rely on us for any further inquiries. All the best.
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