Hi, Eric: Especially if you have a wired ethernet port on your Brother printer, you can happily share it across all your networked devices. This is exactly what I do with mine, currently an HL2395DW.
Use Safari to access the relevant resources on support.brother.com. You will likely need to install drivers that support your specific model. I also use the mac address of my printer's ethernet port to dynamically assign it the same IP address on every boot which allows me to add the machine a globally accessible domain name. Note that this also supports wifi access as you probably are providing wifi via your router. I have found things work pretty much as expected. The exception for me is the scan function as mine is a multi-function device. I can scan from my Mac, but I can't seem to save the results of my scan into a file. That's annoying, but I get around it by using the corresponding Brother application on my Android phone, Iprint and Scan, where scanning and saving works as expected. Best, Janina Eric Caron writes: > Hi folks, > > My brother laser printer could be networked through my router but I > would need to access the non accessible touch pad. My sighted partner gets > very frustrated with technical things so I can’t rely on a patient helper to > figure it out. > > I currently have the printer connected through usb to my Mac. That is > fine but I’d like to be able to have other devices such as phones, iPads, and > another Mac be able to print from the printer. > > Is there a way to have the printer show up for these devices by sharing it > somehow through my Mac? > > Any tips appreciated. > > Eric Caron > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A5F3227A-0E51-492C-B341-91431B5527D1%40gmail.com. -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20200410090754.GI2605%40rednote.net.
