Re: network printer again

2014-05-05 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi again, I don't see a lcd screen on this printer.. I did try and use their so called wireless set up wizzard, but it was asking questions I had no idea what they were talking about! What you wrote below makes total sense, but unfortunately we just don't have people with working eyes around her

Re: network printer again

2014-05-05 Thread Kayaker
Hi, Nice choice. The Brother printers have excellent Mac support. The DW in the name should mean its' a duplex printer and has wireless support. If that's the case, then there's no need to hook it up via USB. What you will want to do is use the wireless support and have it join your network. Th

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Well, Ray, I managed to get it connected to my mac without sighted help. I can see everything so far in the print and fax and scanners section of the system prefs. However, I am still trying to figure out how to get it working on my network via my airport extreme. I do have it networked on my ma

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Tell me, is that Brother printer of yours accessible via Voice Over? By which, as you will gather, I mean can one access the conection to Wifi and so forth via the printer preferences window? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The C

Re: network printer again

2014-05-04 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi There! so, OK, I feel like a total dweeb now! We found out that the HP printer we had was discontinued. It was the 1505. We couldn't find drivers for it or anything. We went out and got a brother hl 2270 dw and now I have that connected to my mac via USB but would love to get it connected t

Re: network printer again

2014-05-03 Thread Kayaker
Hi, When you say it is a network printer and you attached it to your airport extreme, did you do it by USB or by ethernet? It is hard to give you any feedback without the exact HP model number. If you plug the printer into the USB port, you need to configure it with the Airport Utility app. If

network printer again

2014-04-30 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
I'm asking this here again since I didn't see a response yet. I'm trying to get a printer on my network. We have a airport extreme that we want to attach an hp printer to. it's supposed to be a network printer. I've already attached the printer to it, but it doesn't show up on the network. We a