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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